[Tails-dev] Find bridges button

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Autor: adrelanos
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Hi,

commenting on Find bridges button [1]...

The wget commands won't work anymore, since bridges.torproject.org now
asks for captcha.

A find bridges button is generally a nice-to-have feature, if it's
clear, that it's a reachability/circumvention feature rather than
hide-your-Tor-usage feature.

As an easier-to-implement-and-still-helpful solution, a Find bridges
button could be a textual feature, explaining bridges.torproject.org and
the gettor discovery method. Eventually explaining how to extract them
from the pluggable transports bundle and linking to recourses how to
setup private obfuscated bridges.

I am not sure if it's very future proof to implement that feature into
Vidalia. It's unmaintained for a long time, no maintainer on the
horizon. The Tor Project is going to drop Vidalia in favour of the
tor-launcher browser addon. (Mike said so [2].)

Cheers,
adrelanos

[1] https://tails.boum.org/todo/bridge_support/#index2h2
[2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-February/004476.html