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Date: 2015-08-19T15:54:52+00:00
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organizations, and the ways in which this does or does not affect the
work of these projects.
-Tor developers also participated on the "Tor Services using GNS" session
+Tor developers also participated in the “Tor Services using GNS” session
of the Youbroketheinternet village [XXX]. The session was about Tor using
GNS as its name resolution system, and about various ways that we could
-integrate GNUNet and other anonymity systems with Tor. It was decided that
-discussion will continue in the [tor-dev] mailing list.
+integrate GNUNet and other anonymity systems with Tor. It was decided that the
+discussion will continue on the tor-dev mailing list.
[XXX]: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page
[XXX]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@
| https://ooni.torproject.org/event/adina15/
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony and Karsten
-Loesing.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony, Karsten
+Loesing, and George Kadianakis.
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Date: 2015-08-19T15:45:38+00:00
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organizations, and the ways in which this does or does not affect the
work of these projects.
+Tor developers also participated on the "Tor Services using GNS" session
+of the Youbroketheinternet village [XXX]. The session was about Tor using
+GNS as its name resolution system, and about various ways that we could
+integrate GNUNet and other anonymity systems with Tor. It was decided that
+discussion will continue in the [tor-dev] mailing list.
+
[XXX]: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page
[XXX]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise
[XXX]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6657-how_to_make_your_software_build_reproducibly.html
[XXX]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6900-what_s_the_catch.html
+ [XXX]: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Session:Tor_Services_using_GNS
Happy sixth birthday, Tails!
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Author: harmony
Date: 2015-08-19T15:36:07+00:00
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Contents
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- 1. XXX
- 2. XXX
+ 1. Tor Browser 5.0.1 is out
+ 2. Tor talks at Chaos Communication Camp 2015
+ 3. Happy sixth birthday, Tails!
+ 4. Miscellaneous news
+ 5. Upcoming events
-Feature XXX
------------
+Tor Browser 5.0.1 is out
+------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+The Tor Browser team put out a new stable version [XXX] of the
+privacy-preserving browser. Version 5.0.1 fixes a crash bug in the recent
+5.0 release that was hindering some users’ attempts to access popular
+websites like Google Maps and Tumblr. There are no other changes in this
+release.
- [XXX]:
+Thanks to the new automatic update mechanism in the Tor Browser 5.x
+series, you are probably already running the upgraded version! If not,
+head to the project page [XXX] to get your copy.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-501-released
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
+
+Tor talks at Chaos Communication Camp 2015
+------------------------------------------
+
+There was a heavy Tor presence at the recent Chaos Communication
+Camp [XXX] near Zehdenick, Germany, and as usual there were some
+Tor-related talks by community members that are now available to watch
+online. Tor and Debian developer Lunar, one of the minds behind Debian’s
+pioneering and highly successful reproducible builds project [XXX]
+(itself inspired by the Tor Browser team’s work in this line [XXX]) gave
+a talk entitled “How make your software build reproducibly”.
+
+Tor Project Director of Communications Kate Krauss, meanwhile,
+participated in a talk entitled “What’s the catch?” [XXX], addressing
+the subject of free software projects receiving funding from State
+organizations, and the ways in which this does or does not affect the
+work of these projects.
+
+ [XXX]: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page
+ [XXX]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise
+ [XXX]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6657-how_to_make_your_software_build_reproducibly.html
+ [XXX]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6900-what_s_the_catch.html
+
+Happy sixth birthday, Tails!
+----------------------------
+
+In the small hours of Sunday night, the Tails project turned six years
+old [XXX]. It may still have most of its milk teeth, but the anonymous
+live operating system is already the security tool of choice for a wide
+range of users. It has been endorsed by Reporters Without Borders,
+groups campaigning against domestic violence, and the team behind the
+Academy Award-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR (among many others), as
+Voice of America reported last month [XXX].
+
+The Tails team has laid out its vision for the next two years in its
+draft 2016-2017 roadmap [XXX], and you can read a summary of its current
+activities in the last monthly report [XXX]. Congratulations to the team
+on reaching this anniversary!
+
+ [XXX]: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-August/000297.html
+ [XXX]: http://www.voanews.com/content/digital-solution-helps-shield-online-activists/2873529.html
+ [XXX]: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/roadmap_2016-2017/
+ [XXX]: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2015_07/
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Hot on the heels of last week’s 2.4 release, Karsten Loesing put out
+version 2.5 [XXX] of Onionoo, the Tor network data observatory. This
+release adds a new optional field named “measured” to Onionoo’s details
+documents. “The main idea behind this new field is that relay operators
+and Tor network debuggers can now figure out easily whether a relay is
+affected by not being measured by a sufficient number of bandwidth
+authorities and as a result has lower usage than it could handle”,
+writes Karsten. The new field is not yet shown in Onionoo web interfaces
+like Globe and Atlas, but it is accessible through the Onionoo API. For
+more details, see the relevant ticket [XXX].
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-August/009291.html
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/16020
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+David Fifield announced that the recent outage affecting meek’s
+Microsoft Azure backend is now resolved [XXX]. Most users will have
+switched to the workaround version included in the most recent Tor
+Browser releases, but if for some reason you are still using the old
+configuration, it too should now be working once again.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-August/038780.html
+
+David Stainton asked for brief code review of his Twisted-based Tor HTTP
+proxy [XXX]. “Is this project worthy of your precious 10 minutes to
+review it... so I can improve the code quality?”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-August/009260.html
Upcoming events
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-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
- |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
+ Aug 24 17:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Aug 24 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Aug 25 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Aug 26 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Aug 26 14:00 UTC | Measurement team meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Sep 02 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Sep 03 19:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-August/000296.html
+ |
+ Sep 27 - Oct 03 | Tor summer dev meeting 2015
+ | Berlin, Germany
+ | https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeeting
+ |
+ Oct 01 - Oct 03 | ADINA15: A Dive Into Network Anomalies
+ | Rome, Italy
+ | https://ooni.torproject.org/event/adina15/
-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 and Karsten
+Loesing.
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