[tor-project] Cross-team OONI and Tor Browser project: default bridge checking

[David Fifield]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 09:32:48PM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> It looks like two of the default obfs3 bridges in Tor Browser have
> been broken for a while -- maybe for many months. I only noticed by
> accident today.
> 
> I was about to open a ticket for the Tor Browser team to automate checking
> them, so they can proactively notice and fix things if they break.
> 
> But then I thought, hey, OONI should be doing that testing from all over
> the world, right?
> 
> There are these tickets from the past:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12544
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6414

There's also this recent ticket for reachability-only testing of default
bridges:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/652