Tor Entry Point?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Sep 8 19:58:52 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 14:43 -0500, Keith Hoopes wrote:
> I'm trying to access the main site for mercurial
> 
>     mercurial.selenic.com
> 
> But McCaffee has it listed as a Tor entry point, and so my work is
> blocking it.  Is there actually a Tor entry point on that domain, or
> is this a wrong classification?

There is a public Tor entry point there, yes.

Ironically, this is trivial to bypass: just install Tor and use one of
the thousands of unadvertised entry points. This is what people in Iran
and China do and you can do it right here in the USA.

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