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version 61
Author: phw
Date:   2014-01-15T09:45:42+00:00

   Fix some typos and grammar issues.

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 Who are the Tor Project's website visitors?
 -------------------------------------------
 
-Last week's call for help about Tor Project's website [5] has seen a
-pretty impressive response. Discussions then quickly sparkled on the
-newly created mailing list [6].
-
-As one of the first concrete outcome, Rey Dhuny contributed an initial
+Last week's call for help regarding the Tor Project's website [5] has
+seen a pretty impressive response. Discussions then quickly sparkled on
+the newly created mailing list [6].
+
+As one of the first concrete outcomes, Rey Dhuny contributed an initial
 set of “personas”, later improved by Max Jakob Maass, Silviu Riley with
 suggestions from others. Quoting Wikipedia [7]: “personas are fictional
 characters created to represent the different user types within a
 targeted demographic, attitude and/or behavior set that might use a
 site, brand or product in a similar way.”
 
-One can look up at the wiki page [8] to know more about the seven
+One can have a look at the wiki page [8] to learn more about the seven
 different users of the Tor website that have been currently identified:
 The Student, The Journalist, The Researcher, The Donor, The Engineer,
-The Activist, The Dissident. These personas should probably further
+The Activist, The Dissident. These personas should probably be further
 refined, but are already a very useful tool to think about how to
 structure a new website.
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 Let's save Tor Weather!
 -----------------------
 
-The Tor network does not exist without all the volunteers — currently more than
+The Tor network would not exist without all its volunteers — currently more than
 3,000 all around the world — who run the 5,000+ relays anonymizing our
 connections.
 
@@ -139,15 +139,15 @@
 
 Nick Mathewson mentioned [28] that the “Sniper Attack” paper [29] by Rob
 Jansen, Florian Tschorsch, Aaron Johnson, and Björn Scheuermann was now
-available.  This paper describes serious Denial of Service attacks
-through memory exhaustion.  The issue is fixed “thanks to advice from
+available. This paper describes serious Denial of Service attacks
+through memory exhaustion. The issue is fixed “thanks to advice from
 the paper's authors, in Tor 0.2.4.x and later”.
 
   [28] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006038.html
   [29] http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~jansen/papers/sniper-ndss2014.pdf
 
 In order to prevent attacks [30] on hidden services based on predicting
-which directory will be used, directory authorities need to periodicly
+which directory will be used, directory authorities need to periodically
 produce shared unpredictable random strings. To address the issue,
 Nicholas Hopper has sent “a threshold signature-based proposal for a
 shared RNG” [31], now up for reviews.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
 
 Microsoft's Geoff McDonald wrote a blog post [39] describing how they
 have helped remove half of the estimated four millions of Tor
-clients [40] installed by the Sefnit botnet without the computer's owner
+clients [40] installed by the Sefnit botnet without the computer owner's
 knowledge.
 
   [39] https://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-the-sefnit-botnet-tor-hazard.aspx
@@ -200,10 +200,10 @@
 
 Many users have been emailing for clarification on the Tor Browser's
 interface. The first time Tor Browser is started, users are asked if
-their network is free of obstacles. Many users do not if their network
-is free of obstacles or not.  A network is free of obstacles if does not
-censor connections to the Tor network. Ticket #10610 [44] has been
-opened to discuss possible improvements.
+their network is free of obstacles. Many users do not know if their
+network is free of obstacles or not. A network is free of obstacles
+if it does not censor connections to the Tor network. Ticket #10610 [44]
+has been opened to discuss possible improvements.
 
 A number of users have reported problems using the Tor Browser in
 Backtrack Linux. Backtrack is unusual among Linux distributions in that
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
 
 
 This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, Matt Pagan,
-dope457, Sandeep, Karsten Loesing, Nicolas Vigier and
+dope457, Sandeep, Karsten Loesing, Nicolas Vigier, Philipp Winter and
 the Tails developers.
 
 Tor Weekly News needs reviewers! 24 hours before being

version 60
Author: lunar
Date:   2014-01-15T09:29:25+00:00

   call for help to find more reviewers

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 dope457, Sandeep, Karsten Loesing, Nicolas Vigier and
 the Tails developers.
 
-Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
-We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report
-important news. Please see the project page [45], write down your
-name and subscribe to the team mailing list [46] if you want to
-get involved!
+Tor Weekly News needs reviewers! 24 hours before being
+published, the content of the next newsletter is frozen so there
+is time to improve the language. We are really missing native or
+good English speakers who could spend just about 20 minutes
+each week. See the project page [45], and subscribe to the team
+mailing list [46] if you want to get involved!
 
   [45] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
   [46] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team



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