Author: Griffin Boyce Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Default bridges? [Was: Tails contributors meeting:
Wednesday June 03]
intrigeri wrote: >> I suppose that they are chosen to be reliable enough for Tor Browser
>> users outside of Tails. And Tails users being 1% of Tor users [1]
>> maybe
>> that's no problem.
>
> In practice, I would bet that you're probably right. Note that we lack
>
> Anyway, the meeting minutes don't make it clear, but this alone wasn't
> the only reason why we decided to postpone this topic: security
> reasons [1] weighted a lot IIRC, combined with the fact that no good
> way to warn users (without scaring them needlessly, and without
> teaching them to click through warnings) was proposed yet.
>
> All in all, the whole thing seems hard, problems have been identified
> 3 months ago, and nobody has showed up to work on solutions since
> then, so postponing felt the right thing to do (at least to me).
While this wouldn't solve all concerns, I'd be happy to set up some
obfs3/obfs4 bridges for the Tails default.
best,
Griffin
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