November 2021 - anti-censorship-team

Microsoft announces shutting down domain fronting attempts in Azure
by Cecylia Bocovich 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

It looks like Azure is going to shutdown domain fronting: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/26/securing-our-approach-to… There isn't a time frame listed in the article, and I haven't gotten any notifications through my Azure account yet. Cecylia

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Couple of questions about Snowflake
by protonmailareliars 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

Hello all, First of all I really appreciate all the work that the anti-censorship team has been putting on building better censorship circumvention tools, and I hope snowflake becomes even more successful than obfs4. I have a few questions about current developments, 1. What's the status on Snowflake Mobile development? Looks like the last commit was more than 1 year old: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Is there any roadmap for getting it out? 2. Right now I assume the broker tends to hand out standalone-snowflake IPs first rather than web-ext-snowflake IPs (that's how it was working if I remember correctly, please correct me if I'm wrong). Is this still the case? I'm asking since I noticed a very impressive improvement when it comes to speed with snowflake and I would like to know if it was just due to me ending up with a standalone-snowflake or rather if issues with performance and speed got ironed out for web-ext-snowflakes. 3. The browser addon currently shows "Your snowflake has helped X users circumvent censorship in the last 24 hours". But this might be bad UX, it should be in the last week or even month since even though there are about ~2k snowflake users, the ratio of snowflakes/users is still big enough that a lot of users might be under the impression that they never helped any user/or that the extension isn't working correctly. 4. It might be a good idea to display the data in https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net.global.prod.fastly.net/metrics directly in https://metrics.torproject.org. Thanks in advance for any answers.

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Firefox Add-ons policy changes 2021-12-01
by David Fifield 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Mozilla will change the policy for add-ons on December 1: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/11/03/add-on-policy-changes-2021/ https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-policies-dec-202… By my reading, the parts that may apply to us have to do with a privacy policy and possible consent form. From the blog: > If your add-on collects technical data, user interaction data, or > personal data, you must show a consent experience at the first run of > the add-on. > Most add-ons require a privacy policy. For add-ons listed on > addons.mozilla.org, the policy must be included in the listing in its > full text. I don't think the Snowflake add-on currently has a privacy policy on addons.mozilla.org.

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What is this
by enricocrivellaro2＠libero.it 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

-- Inviato da Libero Mail per Android

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