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Date: 2015-02-03T22:27:49+00:00
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''83rd issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from January 27th, 2015 to February 3rd, 2015. To be released on February 4th, 2015.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — February 4th, 2015
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Welcome to the fifth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Feature XXX
------------
+Mozilla’s Tor relays go live
+----------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Late last year, Mozilla announced [XXX] its partnership with the Tor
+Project in the Polaris Privacy Initiative [XXX], a program aimed at
+“giving users more control, awareness and protection in their Web
+experiences”. One of the two Tor-related “experiments” Mozilla planned
+to carry out was the operation of several high-capacity middle relays,
+and last week Mozilla’s Network Engineering team announced that the new
+nodes [XXX] had been running for several weeks, in a blog post [XXX]
+that explores the technical decisions and challenges they faced in
+setting them up.
- [XXX]:
+The team discussed the hardware and infrastructure chosen for the
+relays, configuration management using Ansible (publishing their
+playbook [XXX] at the same time), and security practices, as well as
+announcing their intention to continue posting about their experiences
+and findings during the experiment.
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+Thanks to Mozilla for this contribution to the Tor network!
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2014-November/000071.html
+ [XXX]: https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/11/10/introducing-polaris-privacy-initiative-to-accelerate-user-focused-privacy-online/
+ [XXX]: https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=mozilla
+ [XXX]: https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2015/01/28/deploying-tor-relays/
+ [XXX]: https://github.com/XioNoX/moz-tor-relays/
+
+Monthly status reports for January 2015
+---------------------------------------
The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
+month of January has begun. Juha Nurmi released his report first [XXX],
+followed by reports from Philipp Winter [XXX], Damian Johnson [XXX],
+Sherief Alaa [XXX], Georg Koppen [XXX], and David Goulet [XXX].
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-January/000748.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-January/000749.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-February/000750.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-February/000751.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-February/000752.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-February/000753.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+meejah announced [XXX] version 0.12.0 of txtorcon, the Tor controller
+client in Twisted; please see the announcement for a full list of
+improvements.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008227.html
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Nick Mathewson submitted a draft of proposal 241 [XXX], which aims to
+protect users against adversaries who are able to attack their
+connectivity to the Tor network and force them to use malicious guard
+nodes. Roger Dingledine offered [XXX] some further thoughts.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008223.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008226.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+Nick also set out the schedule for the Tor 0.2.6 feature freeze [XXX].
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-January/008216.html
+
+After reports from users that Tor Browser’s default obfs4 bridges are no
+longer usable in China, David Fifield estimated [XXX] the time it takes
+for the “Great Firewall” to react to new circumvention systems as lying
+“between 2 and 10 weeks”, and asked for additional data to narrow the
+range further.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008222.html
+
+Isis Lovecruft “would be super stoked if we could make it as easy and
+seamless as possible for the bridge operators who are still running
+obfs2 (!!) to move to supporting better, newer pluggable transports”,
+such as obfs4, and wondered [XXX] how to make it possible for operators
+running Debian stable to get the necessary dependencies onto their
+system without extensive backporting: “If someone has done this, or has
+another simple solution, would you mind writing up some short how-to on
+the steps you took, please?”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-February/006346.html
+
+The Tails team continued to discuss [XXX] the advantages and
+disadvantages of removing AdBlock Plus from Tails’ version of Tor
+Browser.
+
+ [XXX]: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-February/008003.html
+
+Sadia Afroz compiled a timeline of Tor blocking events, and shared [XXX]
+it with the ooni-dev mailing list, along with a request for missing data
+points; Collin Anderson responded [XXX] with some additional
+information.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-February/000241.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-February/000242.html
+
+Patrick Schleizer announced [XXX] that the Whonix team is looking for “a
+sponsor who is willing to donate a suitable sized virtual or root
+server”, and gave a list of planned requirements. If you can meet this
+need, please see Patrick’s message for next steps.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036675.html
+
+Konstantin Müller shared [XXX] a report written as part of a Master’s
+degree, offering an introduction to “the past, present, and future” of
+Tor hidden services.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036709.html
News from Tor StackExchange
---------------------------
Windy wanted to know how often a client fetches consensus data from
-a directory authority [XXX]. Jens Kubieziel provided some information
-by walking through the source code. He conluded that "Every minute it
+a directory server [XXX]. Jens Kubieziel provided some information
+by walking through the source code, and concluded: “every minute it
is checked if the consensus document is too old. If it is older than
-the current time a new one will be fetched."
+the current time a new one will be fetched.”
- [XXX]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/6087/88
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/6087/88
Upcoming events
---------------
-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
+ Feb 04 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 09 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 09 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 10 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by qbi and Harmony.
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