July 2016 - tor-project - lists.torproject.org

meek-google suspension
by David Fifield 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

I managed to get some information on why meek-google got suspended on App Engine. There was a botnet that used Tor and the public meek instance for command communication. They shut it down for that reason. I still haven't gotten any kind of official communication from Google Cloud Platform. I wrote a guide on how people can set up their own personal instance. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html I figure the botnet risk is far less this way, without a single central service to freeload off of. Though of course far fewer people will be able to follow these steps than were able to use a default configuration. Because I can't see just setting up a new account under the circumstances, I'm planning to ask the Tor Browser devs to remove the non-functional meek-google option.

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Welcome Elio Qoshi - designer who will help us at the UX team!
by isabela 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Hello there! I would like to send this introduction because you will might see Elio on emails, face to face meetings and on irc. As you might know, last year we start building our UX team by inviting individuals and organizations to join and help us - we had our first f2f meeting in Valencia Dev meeting this year! The first project that came out of it was to work on a style guideline for Tor that will help us define the foundation of new designs we produce. Simply Secure (you might remember Amee at our dev meeting as well) will help us with this project and have done a lot of work preparing for it already, like hiring a designer! They actually hired two because just like when you are coding, is good to have a reviewer, anything done with a second pair of eyes will be done better :) Elio will be the designer working on the Style guidelines and Philip Lammert, from our community and who has also being involved on building up our UX team, will be working with Elio as a design reviewer. A little bit about Elio on his own words: "I have been involved with Design at Mozilla, Fedora, FSFE, I2P and many other projects, so I'm excited to help out with branding at Tor. Really, it's a privilege to work for Tor so I look forward to our time together! You can find more about me on my personal blog https://elioqoshi.me " Say hi to Elio if you see him around on irc o/ Cheers, isabela -- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa

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Fwd: New Module Owners for Mobile
by Nathan Freitas 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Changes at Mozilla on the mobile front. ----- Original message ----- From: Mark Finkle <mfinkle(a)mozilla.com> To: "mobile-firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org" <mobile-firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org>, "firefox-dev" <firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org> Subject: New Module Owners for Mobile Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:27:53 -0400 Today, I am transitioning module ownership of Firefox for Android and Firefox for iOS to Margaret Leibovic and Stefan Arentz, respectively. Margaret and Stefan have been leading the engineering teams on their respective projects for some time. That alone is enough to transition the module ownership, but today is also my last day at Mozilla [1], so I want to make sure nothing is left in limbo for the Mobile teams. Please join me in congratulating and supporting Margaret and Stefan. Finkle [1] http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2016/07/leaving-mozilla/ _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list mobile-firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev

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