[tor-bugs] #6888 [Tor Hidden Services]: Disable guard nodes with Tor2web mode

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#6888: Disable guard nodes with Tor2web mode
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 Reporter:  nickm                |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement          |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Hidden Services  |        Version:                    
 Keywords:                       |         Parent:                    
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:                    
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 On #6866, rransom says:

 >Perhaps [Tor2web mode] should prevent users from operating hidden
 services, and turn off UseEntryGuards (as I understand it, this would
 disable the path-bias detection code). They're not getting anonymity
 anyway.

 I think this is right.  Guard nodes exist to prevent profiling attacks,
 and tor2web instances are not concerned about those.

 Mike Perry has a patch as part of one of his #6866 branches.  I'm giving
 this its own ticket number, though, so there can be some record of where
 we talked about this.

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