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Tor Flash Proxies, VPS provider opinions?

RaymiiRaymii Member
edited January 2013 in General

Something new, tor related, flash proxies, but no Adobe Flash is involved.

http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/

Embed an iFrame in your website, serve as a tor bridge. Not as a outgoing relay.

I've set this up over at https://raymii.org (see the little blue bagde on the page).

How do providers feel about this? Since most of them do not allow tor exits?

Comments

  • gubbytegubbyte Member
    edited January 2013

    This page enables you to use your web browser as a proxy to help censored Internet users. When you click yes, your browser will act as a censorship circumvention proxy as long as you are viewing a page with the flash proxy badge.

    For more information on this system click here.

    Your current setting is: unspecified. Your browser may or may not run as a proxy, depending on how the website administrator has configured the badge. Click the buttons below to change your setting.

    Oh, OH, and I always thought Tor was about user privacy...

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    I would say don't ever do it on shared hosting, if you wanted to put the badge on a website you host on your own VPS then I suppose it is not the end of the world however personally showing that badge is like saying.... "the traffic you are looking for is here" to some agencies so my point of view is probably not a great idea.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    From what I understand, this is no different than an entry node or bridge that can be hidden as the network only publicizes the exit and relay nodes in full.
    It will not have high traffic as only a few ppl will use it, if any, and any given time, publicizing it will defeat the pupose as the censors will be able to automatically block them.
    While Iran will soon isolate from Internet, China cannot afford this as they dont live from oil. So, if this picks up, the censors will have a problem with it.
    Also, I hope that IPv6 will also help with the multitude of IPs and random hopping of the bridge.

  • @gubbyte said: Oh, OH, and I always thought Tor was about user privacy...

    Nononono, don't let anyone fool ya, Tor is NOTHING but warez, terrorism and of course child pornography. :)

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    I think you put it wrong. First and foremost it is about child pornography because terrorism and warez charges dont impress anyone today, the only thing ppl dont bother to check if true is CP, just throw a few invented statistics about 90% or so and everyone will believe without checking.
    Warez are on torrents all over and all ppl defending their country are considered terrorists by one side or the other.

  • @Maounique are you talking about my 90% again? My assumption bothers you that much. Problem with the stat is no one can really prove me wrong. You know 90% of stats are just made up.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    @24khost said: Problem with the stat is no one can really prove me wrong.

    It is so easy to prove wrong for everyone that cares to check. 30 k out of 100 k requests came from Iran when someone made a statistic some 2 years ago and some 10 k from china, maybe those guys are into child porn that much, but somehow i dont believe it, you are free to believe whatever the government and the church throws at you to justify raids and shrinking the loophole that is the first amendment.

  • @Maounique give me the proof. Give me the story. Would love to read it. Would love to be proved wrong.

  • @24khost said: give me the proof. Give me the story. Would love to read it. Would love to be proved wrong.

    please.
    just.
    shut.
    up.
    already!

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited January 2013

    Google is your friend: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/26/protesters-use-navy-technology-to-avoid-censorship/?feat=home_headlines
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&ved=0CEcQFjACOAo&url=http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf&ei=no_kUMv-NoLStAag-IHACg&usg=AFQjCNHple3DXlX_lHPidfpaVn13ezWkPA

    I dont have the "analisys" from your fox channel or local church tho, i would love to see those too, somhow I doubt that even those would claim things like 90%, would lose any leftover of credibility they have, this is why the acusations are launched on a general basis.

  • joepie91joepie91 Member, Patron Provider
    edited January 2013

    @AnthonySmith said: I would say don't ever do it on shared hosting, if you wanted to put the badge on a website you host on your own VPS then I suppose it is not the end of the world however personally showing that badge is like saying.... "the traffic you are looking for is here" to some agencies so my point of view is probably not a great idea.

    If I am understanding the concept correctly, the bridge is running on the client side, not the server side.

    EDIT: Think the idea of web/mobile LOIC, but non-malicious.

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