[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
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Author: mttp
Date: 2013-10-14T21:02:41+00:00
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This week, multiple people asked if Tor worked well on the Raspberry Pi. Although the
Tor Project does not have any documentation directed specifically at the Raspberry Pi
-(yet!), multiple people have said it works. Instructions on using the Tor Project's
-Debian repositories might be helpful here [XXX]. Tor relay operators are encouraged
-to share their experiences or ask for help on the tor-relays public mailing list [XXX].
+(yet!), the issue was raised on Tor's StackExchange page [XXX]. Tor relay operators
+are encouraged to share their experiences or ask for help on the tor-relays public
+mailing list [XXX].
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Boisterous
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Boisterous/WebChat
[XXX] https://prosody.im/
[XXX] http://forge.webpresso.net/projects/prodromus
- [XXX] https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en
+ [XXX] http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/242/how-to-run-tor-on-raspbian-on-the-raspberry-pi
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/
Miscellaneous news
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Author: mttp
Date: 2013-10-14T20:32:20+00:00
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Tor Help Desk Roundup
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-[Some help desk news]
-
The Tor project wishes to expand its support channels to text-based instant
messaging as part of the Boisterous Otter [XXX] project. Lunar and Colin C. came up with
a possible implementation [XXX] based on the XMPP protocol, Prosody [XXX] for the
server side, and Prodromus [XXX] as the basis for the web based interface.
+This week, multiple people asked if Tor worked well on the Raspberry Pi. Although the
+Tor Project does not have any documentation directed specifically at the Raspberry Pi
+(yet!), multiple people have said it works. Instructions on using the Tor Project's
+Debian repositories might be helpful here [XXX]. Tor relay operators are encouraged
+to share their experiences or ask for help on the tor-relays public mailing list [XXX].
+
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Boisterous
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Otter/Boisterous/WebChat
[XXX] https://prosody.im/
[XXX] http://forge.webpresso.net/projects/prodromus
+ [XXX] https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/
Miscellaneous news
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Author: harmony
Date: 2013-10-14T19:54:38+00:00
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issues affecting the current design of Tor hidden services. Nick
Mathewson later described Christopher's initial proposal as “single
hidden service descriptor, multiple service instances per intro point”
-along with three other alternatives. Nick and Christopher also backed up to
+along with three other alternatives. Nick and Christopher also teamed up to
produce a set of seven goals that a new hidden service design should aim for
regarding scalability.
-There's probably more to discuss to weight which goals are the most
-desirable, and which designs are likely to address them, and as always,
-without harming anonymity.
+There's probably more to discuss regarding which goals are the most
+desirable, and which designs are likely to address them, without — as always
+— harming anonymity.
-George Kadianakis also called for help on regarding “the guard enumeration
+George Kadianakis also called for help concerning “the guard enumeration
attack that was described by the ‘Trawling for Tor Hidden Services:
-Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization’ paper (in section VII) [XXX].”
+Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization’ paper (in section VII)” [XXX].
-The most popular solution so far seems to enable a client or an hidden service
-to reuse some parts of a circuit that can not be completed succesfully to
+The most popular solution so far seems to be enabling a client or hidden service
+to reuse some parts of a circuit that cannot be completed successfully in order to
connect to new nodes. This should “considerably slow the attack” [XXX],
but “might result in unexpected attacks” as George puts it.
-These problems can benefit from everyone's attention. Free to read the threads
-in full and give your insights!
+These problems could benefit from everyone's attention. Free to read the threads
+in full and offer your insights!
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005556.html
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005621.html
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
misbehaving exits.”
Aaron took the opportunity to mention his plans [XXX] to leverage the work done
-as part of OONI [XXX] to detect network interference. Aaron's intent is to
+as part of OONI [XXX] to detect network interference. Aaron's intention is to
“provide Tor network tests as part of ooni-probe's standard set of tests,
so that many individuals will measure the Tor network and automatically
publish their results, and so that current and future network interference
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
Detecting misbehaving exits so they can be flagged
“BadExit” [XXX] by the operators of the directory authorities is important
to make every Tor user safer. Getting more users to run tests against our
-many exit nodes would benefit everyone — it makes it more likely to catch
-bad behaviors as soon as possible.
+many exit nodes would benefit everyone — it makes it more likely that
+bad behavior will be caught as soon as possible.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005593.html
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/badRelays
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@
Miscellaneous news
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-Ten years ago, on October 8th, 2003, Roger Dingledine announced [XXX] on the or-dev
-mailing-list the first release of tor as free software.
+Ten years ago, on October 8th, 2003, Roger Dingledine announced [XXX] the first release
+of tor as free software on the or-dev mailing list.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2003-October/002185.html
@@ -104,49 +104,49 @@
[XXX] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-October/003835.html
-Arlo Breault sent a quite detailed plan on how Mozilla Instantbird could
+Arlo Breault sent out a detailed plan on how Mozilla Instantbird could
be turned into the Tor Messenger [XXX]. Feedback would be welcome,
-especially about sandboxing, audit and internationalization for
+especially with regard to sandboxing, auditing, and internationalization for
right-to-left languages.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005616.html
-The spanish and german version of the Tails website are outdated and should soon
+The Spanish and German version of the Tails website are outdated and may soon
be disabled [XXX]. Now is a good time to help [XXX] if you want to keep those
translations running!
[XXX] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-October/003879.html
[XXX] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/
-adrenalos announced [XXX] the release of Whonix 7, an operating system based
-“based on the Tor […], Debian GNU/Linux and the principle of security by isolation.”
+adrelanos announced [XXX] the release of Whonix 7, an operating system
+“based on Tor […], Debian GNU/Linux and the principle of security by isolation.”
The new version includes tor 0.2.4, Tor Browser as the system default browser and
a connection wizard, among other changes.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-October/030593.html
-Lunar sent a report about the OHM2013 dutch hacker camp [XXX] that
-happened last August.
+Lunar sent out a report about the Dutch OHM2013 hacker camp [XXX] that
+took place in August.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000363.html
-Philip Winter, Justin Bull and rndm did several improvements to Atlas [XXX], the
-web application to learn more about running Tor relays. There HSDir flag is now properly
-displayed [XXX], countries' full name and flags are shown instead of two letter codes [XXX] and
-it's now easy to know for how long a relay has been down [XXX].
+Philip Winter, Justin Bull and rndm made several improvements to Atlas [XXX], the
+web application for learning more about currently-running Tor relays. The HSDir flag is now properly
+displayed [XXX], full country names and flags are shown instead of two-letter codes [XXX] and
+it's now easier to find out how long a relay has been down [XXX].
[XXX] https://atlas.torproject.org/
[XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/9911
[XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/9914
[XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/9814
-ra, one of Tor's former GSoC student, proposed a patch [XXX] to add to the Tor control protocol
-a command asking tor to pick a completely new set of guards.
+ra, one of Tor's former GSoC students, proposed a patch [XXX] to add
+a command to the Tor control protocol asking tor to pick a completely new set of guards.
[XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/9934
-starlight shared some simple shell snippets [XXX] that connects to the Tor control port in order
-to limit the bandwidth used by their relay while running backups.
+starlight shared some simple shell snippets [XXX] that connect to the Tor control port in order
+to limit the bandwidth used by a relay while running backups.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-October/030607.html
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