[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Tue Sep 16 04:20:07 UTC 2014
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/37 ===
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version 20
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-16T03:32:41+00:00
add items
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[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ahmia-search-after-gsoc-development
+David Fifield called for a volunteer operating a “big fast bridge” [XXX]
+to take over the running of the meek [XXX] pluggable transport: “I want
+to do this both to diffuse trust, so that I don’t run all the
+infrastructure, and because my bridge is not especially fast and I’m not
+especially adept at performance tuning”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007482.html
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
+
+David also explored possible reasons behind the correlation in usage
+statistics for meek and Flashproxy [XXX], and wondered why the number
+of FTE users appeared to dip in late August [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007480.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007481.html
+
Tim reported [XXX] on progress made towards a “fuzzer” [XXX] for Tor,
based on the Tor research framework previously announced by Gareth
Owen [XXX], including a draft design for the process and a list of
version 19
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-16T03:13:42+00:00
credits before i forget
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| Event website URL
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by harmony, Lunar,
+Roger Dingledine, George Kadianakis, and special.
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version 18
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-16T03:04:30+00:00
i like this story
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Welcome to the thirty-seventh issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the
-weekly newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor
-community.
+weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the community around
+Tor, the anonymity network that makes full use of its library card.
tor 0.2.5.7-rc is out
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@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@
Tor and Tails are a natural fit for any response to this problem, and
BoingBoing reports that not only have “multiple Massachusetts
-libraries […] installed the Tor browser on all of their public PCs” as a
-result of the workshops, some have even “set up Tor middle relays on
+libraries […] installed the Tor browser on all of their public PCs”
+following the workshops, some have even “set up Tor middle relays on
their libraries’ networks”.
-It would be a shame, however, if this exciting development were
+It would be a shame, however, if these exciting developments were
restricted to the state of Massachusetts. If you are a library user
concerned about this issue, share the article with your local librarians.
If you work in a library, contact the authors of the article at the
version 17
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-16T02:55:00+00:00
write library item
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@@ -30,6 +30,41 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-September/034740.html
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12908#comment:5
[XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/dist/
+
+Tor protects library patrons’ right to privacy
+----------------------------------------------
+
+April Glaser and Alison Macrina published [XXX] an article for BoingBoing
+on efforts by Massachusetts librarians to guarantee their patrons’ right
+to access information without fear of surveillance or censorship. Macrina
+and her colleagues, in partnership with the ACLU of Massachusetts, have
+been giving workshops on the use of privacy-preserving technologies to
+other librarians, and spreading the word about the risk that pervasive
+surveillance poses to freedom of thought and intellectual inquiry.
+
+As the authors remark, “it’s no secret that libraries are among our
+most democratic institutions. Libraries provide access to information and
+protect patrons’ right to explore new ideas, no matter how controversial
+or subversive […] and protecting unfettered access to information is
+important whether that research is done using physical books or online
+search engines. But now it has become common knowledge that governments
+and corporations are tracking our digital lives, and that surveillance
+means our right to freely research information is in jeopardy”.
+
+Tor and Tails are a natural fit for any response to this problem, and
+BoingBoing reports that not only have “multiple Massachusetts
+libraries […] installed the Tor browser on all of their public PCs” as a
+result of the workshops, some have even “set up Tor middle relays on
+their libraries’ networks”.
+
+It would be a shame, however, if this exciting development were
+restricted to the state of Massachusetts. If you are a library user
+concerned about this issue, share the article with your local librarians.
+If you work in a library, contact the authors of the article at the
+addresses they provide to find out how you can offer privacy workshops
+and tools to your own community!
+
+ [XXX]: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html
Hidden service enumeration and how to prevent it
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[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
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-Possible items:
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- * Alison Macrina and April Glaser write about Massachusetts librarians teaching workshops on how freedom of speech and the right to privacy are compromised by the surveillance of online and digital communications -- and what new privacy-protecting services they can offer patrons to shield them from unwanted spying of their library activity, including Tor. http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html
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