Roger Dingledine:
Here is an early brainstorming list of the scope for our future anti-censorship team. Let us know if we left out a critical category. And of course once we have actual team members I expect they will take this initial roadmap and do something even smarter than this list. :)
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Thanks for working on this list.
I see a bunch of people on IRC often mention that are unable to download Tor Browser or get tor packages for their distributions. The same users usually find all subdomains of torproject.org blocked. For these scenarios a better plan should be established specifically on:
- How people can access *.torproject.org website mirrors - Download and verify Tor Browser (when the canonical documentation is blocked) - Add/fix gateways to provide Tor Browser and tor packages (Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, XMPP, support more email providers, ...) - Use alternative methods to retrieve tor packages in their distributions (for instance in Debian package apt-transport-https), common scenario of DPI/keyword blocking. - Allow user to submit an "anonymized" log report; either via a button in Tor Browser or a helper script in tor package. This will help us enormously to understand which method (combination of PT/Bridge or something else) worked (if any) in their case to bootstrap Tor.
Cheers, ~Vasilis