[tor-relays] Suggestion to make Tor usage more disguised

[Raúl Martínez]

Most of people are uneducated about what is Tor and what is used for. That
can lead to trouble.

I have used pluggable transports but they are too slow (50KB/s)

2016-01-16 15:00 GMT+01:00 David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com>:

> Why would someone get into trouble for using Tor?
> Furthermore, have you have heard of pluggable transports for Tor?
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Raúl Martínez <rme at rme.li> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am writing this message to make a simple suggestion that could help
> > driving more adoption to Tor by making using tor less obvious for a
> network
> > administrator.
> >
> > This suggestion tries to address the user case of a common Tor usage, in
> > which the user is not being attacked nor mitm, he is just using tor in
> his
> > work for example.
> >
> > The network admin of the office is not searching actively for Tor users
> in
> > his network but one day he log-in in the router panel and he sees this:
> >
> > - Current conexions -
> >
> > WORKSTATION-98
> > 38.29.00.2 [torproxy10.teaxxcu.com]
> >
> > Is obvious that is using tor. The network admin was not looking for Tor
> > usage in his network but it saw this without looking for it. Now this
> worker
> > can be in serious trouble for using Tor.
> >
> > So my suggestion is to set-up a custom hostname an a Tor-explaining html
> > index ONLY in TOR EXIT nodes. They are the only nodes that can get in
> > trouble and its helpful to advertise that they are tor nodes.
> >
> > ENTRY GUARD nodes should not advertise neither in the hostname nor in a
> > HTML-index-page that they are Tor nodes. This way the network admin would
> > only see an IP and a common hostname, that is a normal behaviour for a
> HTTPS
> > request.
> >
> > So, having said that I encourage all Entry-Guard owners to unset his
> > hostname and to disable the HTML-index-page. That could help a lot of Tor
> > users to not draw unwanted attention.
> >
> >
> > Obviously a network-admin can get a list of Tor relays and check if you
> are
> > connecting to one of them but most of network-admins just take a look at
> his
> > router info page without further investigation.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> >
> > TL;DR: I encourage all Entry-Guard owners to unset his hostname and to
> > disable the HTML-index-page.
> >
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