[liberationtech] What'ya all think of Telex?

[Michael Rogers]

Hi Katrin,

It seems to me that the best candidates for Telex stations would be
popular websites that support HTTPS and that would be politically
awkward for censoring regimes to block.

I say "popular" because the station must already be receiving enough
HTTPS traffic that the extra Telex traffic won't attract attention;
"website" because I can't think of a reliable way for an untrained user
to make sure their traffic passes through a particular host unless that
host is the destination; and "awkward for censoring regimes to block"
because otherwise we're back to the whack-a-proxy game.

If I'm right about those criteria, there are only a few good candidates
- but a few may be enough, if censors are genuinely reluctant to block
those sites.

On the other hand, perhaps censors will be able to achieve a balance
that's acceptable to them by blocking HTTPS access to those sites while
allowing HTTP access.

Cheers,
Michael

On 22/07/11 03:46, Katrin Verclas wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/researchers-develop-end-to-middle-anti-censorship-tech.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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> Curious what the esteemed colleagues think of this circumvention scheme?  Discuss.
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