OpenInternet / copilot

An easy to use censorship simulating access point in a box
https://openinternet.github.io/copilot/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Add "Tor" switch so participants' traffic is encrypted when passively using the Internet during training session #26

Closed megdeb closed 9 years ago

megdeb commented 9 years ago

During a follow up interview, one trainer suggested making a "Tor" switch so the trainer can choose when to send all traffic through the Tor network. This is so when participants are passively connecting to the Internet during a training session - checking email, news, social media, etc - the connection is encrypted and more anonymous. Once the trainer goes to use Co-Pilot profiles to block and censor, they would be able to turn this feature off so connection speeds will be faster.

megdeb commented 9 years ago

Further exploration must be done in order to understand if this feature would be useful for other trainers in different contexts. For example, if most trainers are under the assumption they are going to have low bandwidth and connectivity, Tor would only exacerbate the slow connection speed.

seamustuohy commented 9 years ago

I agree, this is a out of scope for the prototype. It is an interesting idea. It could be done by building off existing projects like [portal[(https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi) if anyone is interested in exploring it in the future.

seamustuohy commented 9 years ago

Closed as out of scope.