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Tor Browser User Manual review
by Colin Childs 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi everyone, As some of you may be aware (if you attend the community team meetings), Alison and I have been working on updating the Tor Browser User Manual and getting it ready for an official release. The community team has now had an opportunity to review the manual, and now we would like to request feedback from the larger community! You can view the manual at https://tb-manual.torproject.org/linux/en-US/ . If you find something that needs changing, please open a ticket on Trac[1] and set the component to "Community", and the "owner" to "phoul" . Thanks, and I hope everyone had a nice weekend! [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/ - -- Colin Childs Tor Project https://www.torproject.org Twitter: @Phoul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXls5GAAoJEJWQHABkmqq5mz0P/30P28JS3LrYUxSLYElKkWUC JbxQNcHRpnDX5kt1t2Gl0oz/xXisXT/9NF68HFjxbQiWaXiKV19Z9homwc3KiWu2 RfkL/xqI62y1QJpp/EpCGPa7IwsVBdiUfyC7/DwxF9dY5CToWeeJDEcWu5rQrKFE F6gbCGpKBirGva8b9n/PdPFHZbyOqKDFO6ZZm/UjCQ5Ga7NFJvDyPEom0dYuw0cW OweSXH+Qjxn1i5OCtra1b6JayQ03z7msI99fOPqzBREtBGPJt2+50jcnXddWnPQv rMbnuLO1KhLqZ9gGYbTi1+kIjEOu5ZwX7qyQLBDo2HMww79EuyUtDkHOR2hZxC72 N//Aj5M4myGodjYUsdb/QNRKJSy2Z69eco4eKsRonn0U8/JOO0dh82AkfzVzRS7A MPmYivw0zFuTjn9C5e1QiHWJEwmPsbpDuwBU4mj0EZ5H4evMDsncDqW9yE/Lgqpq Jw6v7GP5arZlbJ+3vZgznAVATAuY2O2+ytu2Z8vetpFFCoaSsvZD7bqT1c1c1LdM oWT0yPXJWeKcdm16ow7/Bjh5yO4NBXahnoAAVTLQG7TjpTSiyMw7nHxMRmMVk84u 5jR7GLOPgQCSqTBonnpxCOnt5phg38OV4TQarxUE+zcov/7GKMrvY/uSj5aRly/c xlxlSP9tGaLMaK/PmYvl =HTUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Booth during the FOSDEM
by Syl 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hello, I'm a member of Nos oignons (https://nos-oignons.net/ a french association that runs exit nodes) and I thought about having a booth during the next FOSDEM to talk about Tor and related stuff. What do you think about sharing a common booth? I send this invitation to Tor Project, Tails Project, Frënn vun der Ënn, and torservers.net. The deadline for stand proposals is October 31, I would send the proposal in one month if we are enough people to participate. I think we need to be 3 people each day. Thanks. Syl

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bwauth
by Nima Fatemi 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hey there, I'm not sure if I mentioned this on a public channel before, but I'm running a bandwidth authority from a VPS in HK. It has been running since Aug 1st, 2016. For now, the results are being pushed to a repo[0] on a hourly basis. I thought I'd mention this for anyone who wants to study them or if any of the DAs need a bwscanner to pair with. I'm planning to keep this running for the foreseeable future. You can directly fetch the latest scan[1][2] or measured percentage[3]. I can later put them on a webserver if that makes a difference. [0] https://github.com/mrphs/bwauth [1] https://github.com/mrphs/bwauth/blob/master/latest_bwscan [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrphs/bwauth/master/latest_bwscan [3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrphs/bwauth/master/measured_percentage.t… Peace, -- Nima 0X58C4B928A3E218F6 | @mrphs "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" --Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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Notes from September 22 2016 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes for September 22 2016 meeting: Nick: 1) Deliverables for mid-oct looks -- hard. Still, we will try. Some may get implemented in Oct, but land in 0.3.0 :( 2) Are we out in front of funding? 3) I have maybe 10 hours of work time left pre-leaving-for-meeting. What should I do? 4) Need an 028. Shari: 1) Lots of getting ready for the big meeting next week. 2) Hosting Linda and Isa, who arrived yesterday. :) Alison: 1) Tor Meeting Public Days! 1a) Kate and Alison are doing outreach now. 1b) Still working on project ideas for new people for the public hack days. We may have a better sense of these by the end of the core meeting. 2) Tor Meeting Core Contributor Days! 2a) Roadmapping sessions: possibly Tuesday morning review previous roadmap or work we've done in the last six months, Tuesday afternoon deep team work that ends in a roadmapping session? Sounds like this conflicts with what Isa has planned for Thursday so we will work it out together and report back. 2b) gunner and I are working out the agenda based on the emails and agenda suggestions on the wiki 3) Community team members are working on the metrics for relay operators project, updating the Tor brochures, creating the Rapid Response (to censorship events) program, and the support platform (including all related stuff like building out a glossary and finishing up the Tor manual). We hope to get a lot of work done on all of these next week! Kate: 1) Continuing to work on the Stop Mass Hacking Act. Awareness is spreading, but senators only care about phone calls and voice mails. How can we translate retweets into phone calls? 2) Multiple upcoming articles in the media about Tor (onion services, film with Nick in it, etc.) 3) Nice blog post by George about Donncha's Onion Balance software 4) Firefox vulnerability: PR fallout fell our way because of user-focused, quick action from GeKo and others to put out a new version of the browser asap. Karsten: 1) Worked on even shinier Shiny prototype, this time with Tor Browser downloads/updates by platform, channel, and locale: https://tor-metrics.shinyapps.io/webstats2/ 2) Had a roadmapping session with iwakeh to plan the upcoming 6--9 months for the metrics team. 3) Question about Sponsor X: Should we prioritize finishing tasks in order to invoice for them early, or can we plan tasks and subtasks to do urgent things first even if that means completing more tasks towards the end? (Answer from Shari: do the urgent things first.) Georg: 1) Worked on the emergency 6.0.5 release and related fallout 2) Continuing mainly SponsorU work Roger: 1) What's the story on our blog replacement plan? 2) I have spent the last while paying my dues (our dues, I guess) on having so many NSF grants. It looks like there's more work coming after this work, so I should think about how to get people lined up for delegating things to them. Mike: 1) Mostly recovered from my laptop failure (Now running Qubes - Yay!), but behind on lots of things I wanted to get done before the Tor meeting :/ Isabela: 1) Linda started! we met and set up a plan for her first two months 2) OONI proposal to DRL metrics grant has been submitted 3) working on OTF report and on their feedback to our grant proposal 4) preparing teams meetings for dev meeting (i am behind with the applications team one :/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX6Nb+AAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBwRQH/3VyiEMqmpy5fkym3/sThXtU EaFIc9rEk0a4u0/nkZpcki/wWozOPUgX82z9QyOvJJtUiHqo+WkZ6ymHoGJ8Ghv+ cLSjPvwZCi8O5Nt+Q1GJH81RY9Cd5QN9f71U6y3L1tFvFUDPjcR6j4jcm3kfd05I jNejbXO8vSLQa+1QREHdXt7SZAG+xI5a6TkSYqNrj432AaHtAAzFZHecgVPXtpnW D3beKniKUQDZ3Jbp5sk9X34FHlK0cbJPF1InChZNs70iRRTbfEcydAA0DFAVOfZ+ 28oxt4w7kaNFEJQ/CE4nGO/+KTLZ4wmayra6wvFvyjiztT16LHY2Zmu66NRbgiE= =DQCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Notes from September 15 2016 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes for September 15 2016 meeting: Roger: 1) Back online but single-mindedly focusing on NSF (SponsorM) site visit, send me a fresh mail if you need anything. Nick: 1) Tons of deliverables between now and end-of-oct. Going to be busy. Adding extra work is deprecated. 2) Timeline for hiring? A: Grant manager asap, then techies once next big grant approved. 3) To do (or discuss at meeting): we need somebody directing our infosec. How? Budget? 4) Topic for meeting: project-wide software security policy. 5) Topic for meeting: we need to brainstorm stuff in advance for future proposals. 6) annual/biannual reviews? Kate: 1) Trying to get a reporter to film herself starting a Tor middle relay 2) More blog posts on the way--For instance, will publish the one that Nathan and I and others wrote about being safe while using mobile 3) Blogged about Rule41 (which will allow FBI hacking unless Congress acts) and am using social media to raise awareness of issue and get ppl to call their Senators (will roll out plan for non-US people soon but for now: retweet! retweet!) 4) Last night I linked a subplot on Mr. Robot (Elliot hacks the FBI) to the fact that the FBI is about to hack us—got lots of people to call their US Senators, lots of attention to the Stop Mass Hacking Act, 300,000 Twitter impressions, 450 retweets, and 65 new Twitter followers. --Will follow up with what you can do if you are not from the USA 5) Will be in SF for the week after the dev meting and am lining up meetings with policy folks and reporters. Let me know if there’s someone you think I should meet—am also going to stop by NOiseBridge. 6) We have PhotoShop and Illustrator—all hail Shari and Jon and Erin - Thank you! Alison: 1) Tor meeting agenda planning continues -- lots of ideas from meeting attendees. Will share summary with the group after gunner, Shari, and I meet on Monday. 2) Nima finally has all info for the public hack days and is making a flyer for outreach. We're only sending it out digitally -- Twitter and email -- because we don't have a ton of capacity for this, especially on Saturday and Sunday. 3) We need some people to act as point persons on the Saturday and Sunday hackdays. I'm trying to figure out who these people could be. I can do it Friday, but then I leave Seattle. 4) Community team is working on the "metrics for relay ops" project and on improving communication with relay ops generally. 5) Colin is nearly finished the support manual and will have a blog post ready for review soon. Other support stuff being worked on: glossary, FAQ, and platform for support.torproject.org. We'll have some things to share at the meeting. 6) I didn't get enough people to commit to doing the Tor event at Aaron Swartz Day (in SF in November) so I emailed Lisa Rein to say we should probably give that time to someone else. -- wait, maybe we can actually be there. I will circle back with Lisa about this. Isabela: 1) Prep for dev meeting - organizing team meetings; organize Linda's onboard -> will email the ux list today announcing her, got a quote from her too. Should i fwd to tor internal as well? 2) Guidelines are out -- working on collecting feedback from the community and preparing for dev meeting session 3) working on wireframes for metrics and something for orfox project too (ISC above) so when FE dev comes in we can speed up process 4) Interviewed ppl for the services admin position from ford foundation grant 5) replying to giant rabbit requests - review design, get server set up etc Georg: 1) Was in Berlin for the meetup. I think it was a success on many levels 2) Dealt with release preparations and trying to get as much stuff into the upcoming alpha as possible 3) We should think about possible talks for 33c3 Karsten: 1) Helped organize and attended the Berlin meetup. Discussed many things, including ExoneraTor with Sebastian, webstats with GeKo and boklm, and metrics plans with iwakeh and others. 2) Helped with job interviews for a service admin position. 3) Set up a new visualization (https://tor-metrics.shinyapps.io/webstats/) using Shiny, which is "an open source [...] web framework for building web applications using R". This is one possible future of the Tor Metrics website, but we're not there yet. Mike: 1) Updated my android work to the new release of copperhead based on Android Nougat. Seems mostly working still. Some minor annoying snags remain, though. Shari: 1) Getting ready for Tor meeting. 2) Getting ready for two board meetings at the Tor meeting. 3) Working with Giant Rabbit on getting our donation database ready for end-of-year fundraising. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX34wDAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XByeoH/1atCQQsM2e0VARoASY4nJ1R DCR9CUPUpSrLd4leMm537ingQyCX4vxkzbalR2Sy89jyb5wPlkV7WNADF9ywsJmm QxBS2wVkMeN6DQ3ZdbJJuP6t0J0VJxFUBxNcnBDXce7l3B5L38C7e1+Khqi+5aMp uXqGVRnQzR51sd3PUjsWLd5oLhqIEp4pWNQj4YiNR4/NrpDKY3b7CK1zyKjHPVkF kQlqtrZQaWQ4Zp/epsVuxbncJPcD4w2oL8Laa6YpYZi9scleBRvZd+f7q5aPuYpQ LL2tLCxQkW46Jzv7LKtJc16sy+TeU/AVjm4UyIdGzbkdfAn/IFd0OKa7g93CfYc= =7ulp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Human rights and encryption op-ed in Foreign Policy
by Cindy Cohn 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Hi all, My partner, Patrick Ball, wrote a great piece in Foreign Policy linking together the need for strong encryption and human rights in the US and around the world. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-09-14/case-against-golden-key?… Worth a tweet? Cindy *********************************** Cindy Cohn Executive Director Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 436-9333 x108 ----Cindy(a)eff.org <mailto:Cindy@eff.org> ---- www.eff.org <http://www.eff.org/> Join EFF! https://supporters.eff.org/donate

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Fwd: Tor as client for Final Year Project?
by Shari Steele 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hey all. Anyone interested in working with Louis? Shari > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Woods, Louis" <k1308517(a)kingston.ac.uk> > Subject: Tor as client for Final Year Project? > Date: September 13, 2016 at 1:53:27 PM PDT > To: "execdir(a)torproject.org" <execdir(a)torproject.org> > > Dear Tor, > > I am a Computer Science student at Kingston University in London. I recently concluded my software development placement year in industry, and I am about to commence my final year at university. > > I have to undertake a Final Year Project, where I have to apply my programming skills to create an application or website. I already have an idea in mind, which I also believe would be beneficial to your organisation. > > My project is a web application which works in a similar way to the software TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt (an encryption software with plausible deniability). This can be used in countries with Human Rights Abuses, as the first password is just a dummy password which decrypts unimportant information. However there may be a second password hiding sensitive information, but nobody except the user knows this. > > <>My project requires a client, which can be a person or corporation. It would help me enormously to have your well-known and respected organisation’s name on my dissertation report, as you have similar goals to my project’s focus. Essentially, I already have the idea and a plan, your input would be minimal, aside from a few discussions, feedback on features and usability, and of course written proof that you are a client so I can include this into my report. > > Depending on the success of my project you may be able to utilise it for your own purposes in the future. > > Regards, > > Louis Woods

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Matt Blaze, Susan Landau and Ron Wyden in WIRED on FBI Mass Hacking
by Kate 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Good morning! What a great op-ed from Matt Blaze, Susan Landau, and Senator Ron Wyden. It talks about the collateral damage that Rule 41 could cause: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/government-will-soon-able-legally-hack-anyone/ Cheers, Katie

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Tor at Aaron Swartz Day in SF
by Alison 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Hello, good people of Torlandia, The organizers of Aaron Swartz Day [1] would like to give Tor folks a dedicated space during their Sunday hackfest on November 6. The possibilities for this space are pretty open-ended -- we could do Tor tutorials, exciting new things coming up in the Tor world, hacking, presentations of Your Exciting Project That Uses Tor, whatever we want really. We can take up whatever amount of time we want during the day. I will be doing some kind of LFP presentation on Saturday, and am willing to organize the Sunday Tor stuff with whoever else wants to participate. If you are a Bay Area Tor person, or you'll be there the weekend of November 5-6, let's start organizing. I am in favor of organizing onlist because maybe people who can't be there in person have ideas about what we should do. This is a special event honoring Aaron's life and legacy, and I had a great time participating last year. Also, Chelsea Manning is heavily involved in this year's planning. I highly recommend participating if you are able. Alison [1] http://www.aaronswartzday.org/

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Notes from September 8 2016 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes for September 8 2016 meeting: Nick: 1) I want to promote "blind hiring" for my team's next opening, whenever that is. Should I talk to Erin W about it? 2) Should/could I be on fewer MLs? 3) Any way to treat "everybody's attention" as a shared resource? 4) Coding continues. 5) Infrastructure for new folks. 6) Has anybody been reading through the replies on the "hey relay ops how can we help" thread and compiling/responding? Alison: 1) Agenda emails: getting great feedback. Now how to incorporate this into how we typically create the meeting agenda? People like the morning brainstorm session. We could use this feedback to communicate a broad overview of priorities, then use the first morning time to get identify the specific work sessions that people want to do. 2) Public hack days: outreach and planning 2a) Outreach: Katie did a save the date. We need to think about promotion to different groups. I've been in touch with some. 2b) Activities: high level/nontechnical short talks/tours about Tor, list of tickets for newcomers to work on, cool stuff in recent Tor/TBB releases, etc. 3) Metrics for relay operators: community team members are working with the metrics team to help support relay operators. We got feedback from the operators about what kinds of metrics might be valuable to them, and the biggest response we got was that they want to see some kind of recognition for their relay uptime/bandwidth. So we are working out the details of what to measure, but the result will be something like a weekly email to the community team with the relevant metrics, then one member of the team will write to that relay operator and congratulate them, organize sending them some swag, ask about how things are going generally, etc. Isabela: 1) Finished OTF proposal 2) Had kickoff meeting for Tor Browser for Android (Orfox) ISC project 3) Prep for internal launch of style guidelines 4) Prep for dev meeting 5) Organizing somethings for MOSS project to keep track of deliverables 6) Had my first meeting with OONI as part of a biweekly meeting I will have with them to help PM their projects 7) Moved to OONI-DRL proposal now 8) pre-preping for Linda start 8a) (reading UX paper Geko asked me to, getting materials for metrics.tpo.org and orfox tor button/security slide ux etc) Kate: 1) Senator Ron Wyden is pushing for a US Senate to consider bill to stop the legalization of some FBI hacking 2) Blog posts aplenty Mike: 1) Still working on Copperhead. They are having issues with the Android Open Source Project being disorganized while switching to the latest release. I am working on getting updates to work smoothly-ish through this transition. 2) Worked on the Netflow padding traffic analysis defense code. Have a new branch ready for review. 3) Helped with the OTF proposal. 4) Talked with Mozilla (with Georg, Tom Ritter, Huseby, and Richard Barnes) about what they need from us to help reduce the difference between Tor Browser and Firefox. Shari: 1) We’re gearing up for the Tor meeting in a couple of weeks. Anyone have any outstanding issues or questions? 2) I’ve told Pepe from IFF that the next Tor meeting won’t be in Valencia. IFF is 3/6-10. Does anyone from Tor want to go? Would anyone like to be on the IFF organizing committee? 3) Riseup's in trouble. I'm going to follow up with Micah to see if Tor can help. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX17G7AAoJEC3ESO/4X7XB6OUH/A7fWtRKESkQ3UbgWGeWPkyu WgCPNSjdopM64LFkQTo4HQhiyb923mOBwO4WLJ0YluD4JvDlS8s6B37Aa9W1Km5c SXoekE0FlpMF7HRTz4Ot5CyvaNGSmYB5VFBR6hpotaqLT+WOHwCXcMfyeU8HtxQD MyjVbp9Xllvd/EKfNu6h+3Nq0L7E9guvz3NeP2b8WJfirR7mKDMFiI91HnuVK9z7 Odp/3VEZaAg5JxS57ng9PX21yagEEcEou1dn5HJn8V5EMQFot5uDaTD4IeCl2KCp VR+G/VK47ThHqZHfrfPP8pMbwBbhASofqqZpe6cj8MQvdvmdrupHUN/RSHTUmKY= =lDJ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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