[liberationtech] Yemen activists being selectively target to keep em offline

[Griffin Boyce]

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to collect a few private bridges and set them
aside for distribution via torrent.  Possible downside there would be that
as some bridges get blocked or die off over time, that the share becomes
less useful.

Griffin Boyce


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Bittorrent is an underestimated means to distribute Tor. I generate
> Torrents that by default contain several HTTP mirrors as source:
> https://www.torservers.net/mirrors/torrents/
>
> Bittorrent uses DHT to find alternative peers, so every seeder is a
> potentially unblocked source. Also, only a "magnet link" is required to
> find seeders. For example, the magnet link for
> tor-browser-1.3.20_en-US.exe is
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RYQCHZLA4DAWTESALJV3RTTDFWN5BPNY
>

Moritz Bartl
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