October 2017 - tor-community-team - lists.torproject.org

Tor talk/workshop at CJFE Toronto
by Sukhbir Singh 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Hi, On Sunday (29 Oct) I am giving a Tor talk at the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) workshop on digital self defence in Toronto, Canada. http://www.cjfe.org/workshop https://blog.torproject.org/events/sukhbir-cjfes-digital-self-defence-2017 I will be talking about secure web browsing, Tor, and Tor Browser to an audience of journalists and human rights activists. The duration will be three hours and here is the description of the talk: The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked. Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, or GNU/Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained (portable). In this workshop, we will discuss secure web browsing and how to maintain your anonymity online using Tor and Tor Browser. This will be an interactive workshop and we will walk through these tools so please feel free to bring your devices (laptop and/or smart phone). The slides for the talk: feedback is welcome, and let me know if you want me to change anything. Be critical, please! https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/talks/toronto-cjfe-draft1.pdf (There is one section remaining on the slides, and that will be on onion services.) Other than the talk and the general discussion on anonymity, I am going to be giving a Tor Browser demo. I have planned to show what kind of information can be gathered without using Tor, and then later show how Tor Browser prevents that. For this, I have planned to show website logs (my own) and browser fingerprinting, with and without Tor Browser. Any other suggestions on how to make the talk more interactive? Or any other topics I should talk about? Thanks! -- Sukhbir

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Meeting this Wednesday at 1800 UTC in #tor-meeting
by Alison Macrina 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Hi everyone, We'll meet this Wednesday November 1 in #tor-meeting on OFTC. I'd like to cover: - updates from team members - team roadmap See you there! -- Alison Macrina Director Library Freedom Project

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Meeting time
by Alison Macrina 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Hi all, I want to propose changing our meeting time to make it more accessible to people across timezones. Right now, we meet every other Wednesday at 18:00 UTC. I'd like to keep the meetings to every other Wednesdays, but perhaps there is a more convenient time than 18:00 UTC. Please reply only to me and tell me what times on Wednesdays in UTC you're available for the meeting. For example, I'm available from 13:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC. -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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Reminder: meeting this week is canceled!
by Alison Macrina 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hi all, Just a reminder that we will not meet on Wednesday the 18th in IRC as usual. Those of us who were at the meeting all need a few days to travel home and recover from a hectic schedule. We will resume our regular meetings on November 1! In the meantime, I will probably send a few emails to this list about things we worked on at the meeting. -- Alison Macrina Director Library Freedom Project

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Community team meeting Wednesday at 1800 UTC
by Alison Macrina 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hi all, Here's a reminder for our regular community team meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, October 4, at 1800 UTC. Please note that we will hold this meeting in #tor-meeting rather than our usual #tor-project. Our meetings will be in #tor-meeting from now on. We'll start with status updates as always, but please let me know if you have any other agenda items to discuss. The only other thing I'll want to check in about will be plans for the upcoming Montreal meeting (this is our last meeting before that meeting). We will not have a meeting on October 18, since several of us will be in Montreal. See you on Wednesday! -- Alison Macrina Director Library Freedom Project

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