commit 5c39e14c7719cfc3506a297d5422c6972aa77f88 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Feb 15 13:13:14 2015 -0800

Dropping the panopticlick project from the volunteer page

Tried to get ahold of Georg to see if he's interested in mentoring this but no luck, so dropping the project. --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 63 ------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 63 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index 0a1dd52..2b8362f 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -422,11 +422,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li> privacy and security issues in mainline version. </p>

- <p> - <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#panopticlick">Panopticlick</a></i><br /> - </p> - <a id="project-httpseverywhere"></a> <h3><a href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere">HTTPS Everywhere</a> (<a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git">code</a>, <a @@ -1432,64 +1427,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on. </p> </li>

- <a id="panopticlick"></a> - <li> - <b>Panopticlick</b> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Georg (GeKo)</i> - <p> - -The <a href="https://panopticlick.eff.org">Panopticlick project by the EFF</a> -revolutionized how people think about <a -href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf%22%3Ebrowser -fingerprinting</a>, both by developing tests and metrics to measure browser -fingerprintability, and by crowdsourcing the evaluation and contribution of -individual browser features to overall fingerprintability. - - </p> - <p> - -Unfortunately, the way Panopticlick is designed <a -href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbutton%22%3Emakes -it difficult</a> to evaluate defenses to browser fingerprinting, especially -for browsers with a relatively small userbase such as Tor Browser. This is -because any approach we take to reduce fingerprinting automatically makes our -users more distinct from the previous users who submitted their fingerprint -data to the EFF. Indeed, it is also impossible to ever expect that users of -one browser will ever be able to blend in with users of another browser -(Chrome users will always be distinguishable from Firefox users for example, -based on feature set alone). - - </p> - <p> - -To address this, we would like to have <a -href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119%22%3Eour own -fingerprint test suite</a> to evaluate the fingerprintability of each browser -feature for users running a specific Tor Browser version. There are also <a -href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-fingerprinting%... -fingerprinting tests</a> we can add beyond those deployed by Panopticlick. - </p> - <p> - -For this project, the student would develop a website that users can -voluntarily visit to test and record their Tor Browser fingerprint. The user -should get feedback on how she performed and the test results should be -available in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON), broken down by Tor Browser -version. In a second step one could think about adding more sophisticated -tests or supporting other browser vendors that might want to test the -uniformity amongst their userbase as well. Of course, results from each -browser would also need to be broken down by both browser implementation and -version, so that results would only reflect the population of that specific -implementation. - - </p> - </li> - <a id="ahmiaSearch"></a> <li> <b>Ahmia - Hidden Service Search</b>