Hi Tor Browser Devs,
Sorry I didn't send this sooner. On Friday at HOPE we're giving an "Onion Report". During that presentation I'll talk about some of the awesome work you've done over the last year (and continue doing). I'm currently planning on hilighting the new circuit display, the onion+https indicator, and ESR60. Are there any other user-facing features I should mention? I can talk about uplift and some of the progress made with Mozilla, as well.
Should I mention http2 should be enabled in 8.0 stable?
I'll also talk about TBA and Onion Browser for the mobile-side.
Let me know if you have any thoughts - either on-list or off-list.
Thanks! Matt
Matthew Finkel:
Hi Tor Browser Devs,
Sorry I didn't send this sooner. On Friday at HOPE we're giving an "Onion Report". During that presentation I'll talk about some of the awesome work you've done over the last year (and continue doing). I'm currently planning on hilighting the new circuit display, the onion+https indicator, and ESR60. Are there any other user-facing features I should mention? I can talk about uplift and some of the progress made with Mozilla, as well.
I think mentioning all the uplift work which goes on in parallel would be worthwhile as giving this perspective shows that our effort is part of a larger project AND one can and should hilight that without Mozilla's help we would not be where we are right now.
You could mention as well that Mozilla, Brave, and Cliqz are about to jump on the Tor support train, which would give the even larger picture to the audience indicating where we are heading to (and that this is actually quite exciting).
Should I mention http2 should be enabled in 8.0 stable?
Given all the other topics you want to cover in your talk this seems to me too technical/too detailed (in lack of better wording) from what I can see. But if you think it fits, sure, why not.
Georg
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:13:28AM +0000, Matthew Finkel wrote:
Let me know if you have any thoughts - either on-list or off-list.
Hi Matt,
I know there's always a balance to be had, but every time we do one of these talks I find that most of the audience doesn't know that much about Tor (or in this case, Tor Browser). So for example 90%+ of them aren't going to know about the reproducible builds idea, or the fact that we maintain a bunch of patches on Firefox to fix privacy issues, or the fact that Firefox has been merging these patches upstream lately, or the fact that Tor Browser aims to make all users look like each other (as opposed to blending in to "all browsers on the Internet" or some such), etc.
So I guess my advice is: be wary of going too deep too fast, else you'll find yourself talking to people afterwards and realizing that they are excited but they have no foundation of knowledge to which they can attach anything you said. :)
--Roger