<div dir="auto">Hi!<div dir="auto">I've also noticed suddenly 3-5x more bridge users using the one I run with a concrete difference in Russian connections highly increased in number of unique users compared as the others countries which are looking stable.</div><div dir="auto">(Sorry for my bad English, I hope it was comprehensible enough)</div><div dir="auto">Have a nice week!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nils</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 6 déc. 2021 à 13:00, <<a href="mailto:tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Snowflake's package for FreeBSD available (Vin?cius Zavam)<br>
2. Is Tor Actually "Blocked" In Russia, or Are Some Users<br>
Unblocked for now? (Neel Chauhan)<br>
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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 19:30:38 +0000<br>
From: Vin?cius Zavam <<a href="mailto:egypcio@googlemail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">egypcio@googlemail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [tor-relays] Snowflake's package for FreeBSD available<br>
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ol?! :)<br>
agora temos um pacote para instalar Snowflake em FreeBSD. aproveitem!<br>
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tl;dr; we now have a package to install Snowflake on FreeBSD. enjoy!<br>
<br>
since the 14th of Nov 2021 we have a port that builds a Snowflake package<br>
that can be installed on FreeBSD. it gives us all 3 different<br>
features/functions that we can use Snowflake for:<br>
<br>
- client<br>
- proxy<br>
- server<br>
<br>
don't know Snowflake yet?<br>
<br>
- <a href="https://snowflake.torproject.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://snowflake.torproject.org/</a><br>
- <a href="https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/</a><br>
-<br>
<a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake</a><br>
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if you are using the "latest" branch of pkg, try it out! the package is<br>
called "snowflake-tor"<br>
<br>
# pkg update -f<br>
# pkg install -U snowflake-tor<br>
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wanna checkout the source of its port?<br>
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-<br>
<a href="https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983</a><br>
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did you know about the "Run a Bridge" campaign?<br>
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- <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/run-a-bridge-campaign/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.torproject.org/run-a-bridge-campaign/</a><br>
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that's it! stay safe and have a great one<br>
obrigado ]=)<br>
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-- <br>
Vin?cius Zavam<br>
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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 15:58:29 -0800<br>
From: Neel Chauhan <<a href="mailto:neel@neelc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">neel@neelc.org</a>><br>
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Subject: [tor-relays] Is Tor Actually "Blocked" In Russia, or Are Some<br>
Users Unblocked for now?<br>
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Hi tor-relays@,<br>
<br>
While I don't live in Russia, nor are my parents from Russia (they're <br>
from India), today, I noticed these articles that some people noticed <br>
Tor is blocked in Russia (sorry for being late):<br>
<br>
<a href="https://ntc.party/t/ooni-reports-of-tor-blocking-in-certain-isps-since-2021-12-01/1477" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ntc.party/t/ooni-reports-of-tor-blocking-in-certain-isps-since-2021-12-01/1477</a><br>
<a href="https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-censorship/982" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-censorship/982</a><br>
<br>
Yet, when I look at Tor Relay Status, I noticed many relays hosted on <br>
Russian residential ISPs are still online, and only a few aren't:<br>
<br>
Moscow City Telephone:<br>
*<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS25513" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS25513</a><br>
<br>
Rostelecom:<br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS12389" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS12389</a><br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS42610" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS42610</a><br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS34168" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS34168</a><br>
<br>
Vimpelcom:<br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8371" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8371</a><br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8402" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8402</a><br>
<br>
MTS:<br>
* <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS60496" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS60496</a><br>
<br>
I didn't notice a big reduction in "relay" users on Metrics: <br>
<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru&events=off" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru&events=off</a><br>
<br>
But did see an increase in "bridge" users: <br>
<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru</a><br>
<br>
And most Ooni results still show Tor can connect fine: <br>
<a href="https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2021-12-06&since=2021-11-29&probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2021-12-06&since=2021-11-29&probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor</a><br>
<br>
I feel it could be possible it's one of the two:<br>
<br>
* Most likely, the censorship rollout is in stages. Some users are <br>
blocked but other's aren't, where it wasn't rolled out is still <br>
unblocked.<br>
<br>
* Less likely, but Russia found people could use pluggable transports, <br>
like HTTPS obfs4 bridges and maybe they found blocking Tor itself is <br>
ineffective, or trying to block "meek" users ended up blocking Microsoft <br>
and <a href="http://ASP.NET/Azure-based" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ASP.NET/Azure-based</a> webapps.<br>
<br>
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Azure as of now. I did <br>
however interview for a position in the Azure umbrella (not on the CDN <br>
however).<br>
<br>
-Neel Chauhan<br>
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