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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-03-03T20:20:55+00:00
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the Tor log easier to access when Tor fails is the subject of these open
tickets [XXX, XXX].
-[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10603
-[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10059
-
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10603
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10059
Upcoming events
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@@ -291,12 +290,13 @@
| http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP19728
|
Mar 07 17:00 UTC | Tor Instant Messaging Bundle development meeting
- | #tor-dev. irc.oftc.net
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
| https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006369.html
|
Mar 22-23 | Tor @ LibrePlanet 2014
| Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| http://libreplanet.org/2014/
+
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
Mike Perry.
version 62
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-03-03T20:16:18+00:00
add timb meeting to events/small language and unicode fixes
--- version 61
+++ version 62
@@ -187,25 +187,26 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032205.html
[XXX]: http://www.norcie.com/papers/torUSEC.pdf
-Mac OS X users will be thrilled to learn that the next Tor Browser Bundle
-will be shipped as a DMG (disk image) [XXX] instead of the previous unusual
-.ZIP archive [XXX].
+Mac OS X users will be thrilled to learn that the next Tor Browser
+Bundle will be shipped as a DMG (disk image) [XXX] instead of the
+previous unusual .ZIP archive [XXX].
[XXX]: https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/images/TBBDMG.png
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/4261
-David Rajchenbach-Teller from Mozilla reached out [XXX] to the Tor Browser
-developers about their overhaul of the Firefox Session Restore
+David Rajchenbach-Teller from Mozilla reached out [XXX] to the Tor
+Browser developers about their overhaul of the Firefox Session Restore
mechanism. This is another milestone in the growing collaboration
between the Tor Project and Mozilla.
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032204.html
-On the “anonymity is hard” front, David Fifield reported [XXX] a fingerprinting
-issue on the Tor Browser. Fallback charsets can be used to learn the user
-locale as they vary from one to another. The next release of the Tor Browser
-will use “windows-1252” for all locale, as this matches the impersonated
-“User-Agent” string of Firefox — English version — on Windows.
+On the “anonymity is hard” front, David Fifield reported [XXX] a
+fingerprinting issue on the Tor Browser. Fallback charsets can be used
+to learn the user locale as they vary from one to another. The next
+release of the Tor Browser will use “windows-1252” for all locales, as
+this matches the impersonated “User-Agent” string (Firefox — English
+version — on Windows) that it already sends in its HTTP headers.
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/10703
@@ -217,28 +218,30 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006358.html
David Fifield published [XXX] a guide to patching meek, an HTTP
-pluggable transport, so that it can be used to send traffic via Lantern [XXX],
-a censorship circumvention system which “acts as an HTTP proxy and proxies
-your traffic through trusted friends.”
+pluggable transport, so that it can be used to send traffic via
+Lantern [XXX], a censorship circumvention system which “acts as an HTTP
+proxy and proxies your traffic through trusted friends.”
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006356.html
[XXX]: https://www.getlantern.org/
-Fortasse started a discussion [XXX] on tor-talk about using HTTPS Everywhere to
-redirect Tor Browser users to .onion addresses when available. Several people
-commented regarding security, process, or how it could turn the Tor Project or
-the EFF into some kind of registrar.
+Fortasse started a discussion [XXX] on tor-talk about using HTTPS
+Everywhere to redirect Tor Browser users to .onion addresses when
+available. Several people commented regarding the procedure, its
+security, or how it could turn the Tor Project or the EFF into some kind
+of registrar.
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032220.html
-anonym has been busy [XXX] adapting the configuration interface from the Tor Browser —
-called “Tor Launcher” — to Tails' needs. Preliminary results can already be seen
-in the images built from the experimental branch [XXX].
+anonym has been busy [XXX] adapting the configuration interface from the
+Tor Browser — called “Tor Launcher” — to Tails’ needs. Preliminary
+results can already be seen in the images built from the experimental
+branch [XXX].
[XXX]: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-February/005023.html
[XXX]: http://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_experimental/
-Ramo wrote [XXX] to announce its Nagios plugin project [XXX] to the
+Ramo wrote [XXX] to announce their Nagios plugin project [XXX] to the
relay operator community. Lunar pointed out a complementary probe named
“check_tor.py” [XXX].
@@ -249,13 +252,13 @@
Tor help desk roundup
---------------------
-Often users email the help desk when the Tor Browser's Tor client fails somehow.
-There are many ways for the Tor Browser to fail in such a way that the Tor log
-is inaccessible. Since antivirus programs, firewalls, system clock skew, proxied
-internet connections, and internet censorship have all been known to cause Tor
-failures, it is not always easy to determine the source of the problem. Making
-the Tor log easier to access when Tor fails, is the subject of these open
-tickets [XXX] [XXX].
+Often users email the help desk when the Tor Browser’s Tor client fails somehow.
+There are many ways for the Tor Browser to fail in such a way that the Tor log
+is inaccessible. Since antivirus programs, firewalls, system clock skew, proxied
+internet connections, and internet censorship have all been known to cause Tor
+failures, it is not always easy to determine the source of the problem. Making
+the Tor log easier to access when Tor fails is the subject of these open
+tickets [XXX, XXX].
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10603
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10059
@@ -272,12 +275,12 @@
| #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
|
Mar 05 19:00 UTC | Tor Browser development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
| https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2014-February/000000.html
+ |
+Mar 05 20:00 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
| #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
- |
-Mar 05 20:00 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
| https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006366.html
- | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
|
Mar 05 21:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
| #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
@@ -286,6 +289,10 @@
Mar 07-11 | Karen and Kelley @ SXSW 2014
| Austin, Texas, USA
| http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP19728
+ |
+Mar 07 17:00 UTC | Tor Instant Messaging Bundle development meeting
+ | #tor-dev. irc.oftc.net
+ | https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006369.html
|
Mar 22-23 | Tor @ LibrePlanet 2014
| Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
version 61
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-03-03T19:44:33+00:00
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--- version 60
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@@ -88,11 +88,12 @@
month of February has begun. Georg Koppen released his report
first [XXX], followed by reports from Sherief Alaa [XXX], Pearl
Crescent [XXX], Nick Mathewson [XXX], Colin C. [XXX], Lunar [XXX],
-Kelley Misata [XXX], Damian Johnson [XXX], George Kadianakis [XXX], and
-Philipp Winter [XXX].
+Kelley Misata [XXX], Damian Johnson [XXX], George Kadianakis [XXX],
+Philipp Winter [XXX], and Karsten Loesing [XXX].
Lunar also reported on behalf of the help desk [XXX], while Mike Perry
-did the same on behalf of the Tor Browser team [XXX].
+did the same on behalf of the Tor Browser team [XXX], and Arturo Filastò
+for the OONI team [XXX].
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000464.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-February/000465.html
@@ -104,8 +105,10 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000474.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000475.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000476.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000478.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000469.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000473.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-March/000477.html
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