[tor-bugs] #30441 [Circumvention/BridgeDB]: Stop BridgeDB from handing out offline bridges

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#30441: Stop BridgeDB from handing out offline bridges
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 Reporter:  phw                                  |          Owner:  phw
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/BridgeDB               |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  user-feedback, blog, anti-           |  Actual Points:
  censorship-roadmap                             |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  2
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by phw):

 I [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/bridges/bridgedb-
 admin.git/commit/?id=5a8fe00304aee3df49ebbcbeb16ae3854bda0556 blacklisted
 53 bridges] whose obfs4 port was unreachable. We should also try to reject
 them via the bridge authority because it causes scary log messages to
 appear in the bridges' log file. Hopefully some operators will then get
 back to us.

 Blacklisting these bridges won't make things worse because after
 implementing #28655 we don't hand out these bridges' vanilla line.

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