It appears that First Tech Federal Credit Union is blocking all Tor nodes (including non-exit nodes) from connecting to their website, http://www.firsttechfed.com
This seems ... misguided on their part. Blocking exit nodes is one thing, but preventing random people who happen to run a Tor middle node from seeing anything on their website is rather over the top.
They do not appear to be listed on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlocking... yet. If other people also observe the blocking, they should probably be added.
I wanted to check with the list to make sure it is not just me, and get suggestions about the best way to approach First Tech and encourage them to re-consider this overly broad blocking.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Tor Relay @ WeFu.Org wrote:
It appears that First Tech Federal Credit Union is blocking all Tor nodes (including non-exit nodes) from connecting to their website, http://www.firsttechfed.com
This seems ... misguided on their part. Blocking exit nodes is one thing, but preventing random people who happen to run a Tor middle node from seeing anything on their website is rather over the top.
They do not appear to be listed on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlocking... yet. If other people also observe the blocking, they should probably be added.
I wanted to check with the list to make sure it is not just me, and get suggestions about the best way to approach First Tech and encourage them to re-consider this overly broad blocking.
Not just you. I had a similar problem with another site: the admin was unintentionally blocking all relays rather than just exits, he claimed that the naming of the relay lists downloadable from Torproject was 'unclear'. GD
tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
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