Tor Pluggable Transports Break Through Internet Censorship
Channel: The Tor Project
Date: 2016-08-03

While Tor Browser provides many security and privacy properties and features, not everyone around the world has the luxury to connect to use it. By default, Tor Browser makes all of its users look alike by spoofing UserAgent (and other methods) to avoid fingerprinting attacks. However, it doesn't hide the fact you're connecting to Tor, an open network where anyone can get the list of relays. This network transparency has many benefits, but also has a downside: Many repressive governments and authorities benefit from blocking their users from having free and open access to the internet. They can simply get the list of Tor relays and block them. This bars millions of people from access to free information, often including those who need it most. We at Tor care about freedom of access to information and strongly oppose censorship. This is why we've developed methods to connect to the network and bypass censorship. These methods are called Pluggable Transports (PTs).

To learn more about Pluggable Transports, visit this link:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/breaking-through-censorship-barriers-even-when-tor-blocked

Learn how to use PTs: https://extra.torproject.org/blog/2016-08-PT-animation/pluggable_transports-howto.png

Download this video: https://extra.torproject.org/blog/2016-08-PT-animation/pluggable_transports-animation.mp4

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Produced by: Nima Fatemi @mrphs