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@@ -34,14 +34,18 @@ the time is outside the current Tor network consensus'
the
`valid-after`
and
`valid-until`
fields). When Tor fails to
bootstrap, Tails is effectively useless for networking.
It should be noted that the clock just has to be off by a few hours
It should be noted that
when using obfs4 bridges,
the clock just has to be off by a few hours
for Tor to become completely unable to bootstrap, and that's not very
uncommon. Certain OSes (including Windows up to Windows 8 at least)
set the BIOS clock to the local time, and since Tails uses UTC (and
assumes the BIOS clock is UTC), this becomes a problem for every user
but those living in the GMT+0/UTC timezone. Hence this is a very
who needs obfs4 bridges, and whose clock is set to system time,
unless they live in the GMT+0/UTC timezone. Hence this is a very
serious problem.
When connecting to Tor directly or using regular bridges,
the clock can be off by a few hours without causing bootstrapping trouble.
What we want
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