The idea is to distribute bridge information to as many people as possible, without a censoring party being able to automate the collection and filtering of those bridges. So what better way then to pull bridge information, use some captcha libraries, and write plugins for popular blogs/CMS/etc so everyone can use it? I’ve got a WordPress pluging(bottom right on the categories list, dunno where else to put it really…) and my friend Alex Saify is writing a Drupal plugin as we speak.
If you can’t tell what the heck the bridge is, please reload the page. One of the captcha algorithms isn’t working quite right yet.
We put together a PHP library that uses some popular captcha libs, and provides and easy interface to extend and implement those libraries. Right now we are debugging everything, but will release ASAP. I also have to make sure caching is working correctly in the plugins, otherwise there is a risk of flooding the bridges server by accident.
Where to get bridge information?
- bridges.torproject.org
- RSS feeds
- Twitter feeds
So far I only use #1. But the rest are on the way as well. I noticed I made it onto the tor blog, so I wanted to get this post up quick. I’m making it very easy to integrate your custom Captcha algorithms into this library. But the more algorithms that can be included by default the better. Also, if you notice that the algorithms I have are easy to defeat, please tell me!! I don’t want to include a captcha algorithm that is too easy to crack, otherwise the purpose is defeated.
