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    <div id="magicdomid49" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Hello
        tor,</span></div>
    <div class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z"> </span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid50" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">I
        wrapped the last two months here, so this is quite long. </span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid51" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">We
        joined Mozilla during All Hands in Orlando. We had insightful
        conversations about privacy, users and security and privacy
        settings.</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid53" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid96" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">We
        reached a consensus about the next version of our Security
        Settings. With this iteration, we are trying to balance security
        and usability and </span><span
        class="author-a-dz79zpz72z8z75z1hz77zz77zsz78zz78zz90zz82zz85z">a
      </span><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">better
        understanding about what each security level trade-off is for
        users as well. The latest prototype allows clicks here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid55" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a href="https://marvelapp.com/a66fg97/screen/50307815">https://marvelapp.com/a66fg97/screen/50307815</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid56" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid97" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Dunqan,
        an advocate designer, worked on the Onboarding</span><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">
        to introduce our new Security Settings to users. This iteration
        will allow us to explain to users how security settings work and
        also to fix two bugs from the previous version. You can see it
        in action here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid58" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a
          href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28628">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28628</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid59" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid60" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Tor
        Browser new icon implementation reached our alphas and will see
        the light during our stable release in TB85. Since you were part
        of this work, you can sneak peek how TB will look next:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid61" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a href="https://share.riseup.net/#cWuwkUMcV6fORQaj5EFYzA">https://share.riseup.net/#cWuwkUMcV6fORQaj5EFYzA</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid62" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid63" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Wanda
        Arca, a designer from Argentina, made an animated version of the
        new TB icon, you can enjoy it here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid64" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a href="https://share.riseup.net/#t6oppakZeK228VedKJyJTw">https://share.riseup.net/#t6oppakZeK228VedKJyJTw</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid65" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid66" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">The
        second alpha for Tor Browser for Android was released, and we
        are working towards next sprint, TBA-a3. We want to offer users
        a simple way to connect to the tor network and also enable
        censored users to decide to connect via bridges if it is needed.
        Some of this work is still in progress here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid67" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a
          href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28329">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28329</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid68" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid69" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Elio
        and OONI folks are working on the new version of OONI Explorer.
        We iterated over the Measurement Result pages to match the
        concept and the layout with the recently release OONI Probe, and
        we are working on Country pages right now. You can see the work
        in progress here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid70" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a
href="https://xd.adobe.com/spec/2f585e0f-1a7e-4f6c-41f9-fa411520998e-5969/">https://xd.adobe.com/spec/2f585e0f-1a7e-4f6c-41f9-fa411520998e-5969/</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid71" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid72" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">We
        are planning to run usability testing in January for the new
        OONI Explorer Country pages. If you are a researcher or someone
        who use OONI Explorer a lot, we want to hear your feedback of
        what we are building! </span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid73" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid74" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">We
        joined forces with the network team to allow users to run
        Snowflake in more diverse ways. One of those ways will be a
        browser web extension. We are working on it and will be part of
        a huge 2019 milestone that aims to help censored users to reach
        the Internet. See the first intent here:</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid75" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a
          href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23888#comment:5">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23888#comment:5</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid76" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid77" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">The
        new torproject.org is now ready for review on staging. Is still
        a work in progress and we aim to release it during Q119.</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid78" class="ace-line"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lektor-staging.torproject.org/">http://lektor-staging.torproject.org/</a></div>
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    <div id="magicdomid79" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Hiro
        presented Onions in Containers during DockerCon Europe 18. She
        talked about how .onion can grow using Docker containers and
        what are the benefits of doing it for end users.</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid80" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z
        url"><a
href="https://dockerconeurope18.smarteventscloud.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=243508">https://dockerconeurope18.smarteventscloud.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=243508</a></span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid81" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid94" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">And
        as a closure, in 2018 we released TB8 with several usability
        improvements, we worked on TBA to match the experience that
        users have in desktop, we launched support.torproject.org as the
        primary source for users to find answers to their questions.
        Also, we traveled over four countries in the global-south to
        raise the voices of our users and their experiences in local
        contexts, and we worked across teams to support them with
        visual, UI and UX design.</span></div>
    <div id="magicdomid83" class="ace-line"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid105" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">As
        we look forward to 2019, I hope to continue offering solutions
        to users all over the world to reach the internet privately and
        safely.</span></div>
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        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z"><br>
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    <div id="magicdomid86" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">Happy
        holidays folks!</span></div>
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    <div id="magicdomid88" class="ace-line"><span
        class="author-a-z122zqz73zz81zz83zz72zv49sz79z0z79zz70zz83zz83z">A</span></div>
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