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OONI Monthly Report: July 2018
by Maria Xynou 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Hello Tor world, In July 2018, the OONI team published two research reports in collaboration with local partners, examining censorship events in Egypt and Mali. We updated several test lists, continued to work on revamping the OONI Probe mobile apps and made significant progress on the OONI Probe desktop apps. We also carried out UX research (via a survey and interviews) to collect community feedback on the current and upcoming/revamped OONI Probe mobile apps. ## Report on internet censorship in Egypt In collaboration with Egypt's Association for Freedom of Expression and Thought (AFTE), we published a research report examining internet censorship in Egypt. The full report is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/documents/Egypt-Internet-Censorship-AFTE-OONI-2… We also published a summary of the report on: * Our site: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/egypt-internet-censorship/ * The Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship Thanks to AFTE, we published Arabic translations: * Full report: https://ooni.torproject.org/documents/Egypt-Internet-Censorship-AFTE-OONI-2… * Report summary: https://ooni.torproject.org/documents/summary-egypt-internet-censorship-ara… Our research report received the following press coverage: * Mada Masr (English): https://www.madamasr.com/en/2018/07/02/news/u/report-internet-censorship-ha… * Mada Masr (Arabic): https://www.madamasr.com/ar/2018/07/02/news/u/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B… * Al Araby: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/medianews/2018/7/2/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7… * Al Manassa: https://almanassa.net/ar/story/10567 OONI's Maria was also interviewed about the report on the Al Araby TV channel: http://alaraby.tv/video/26968523/%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D9%8… (starts at 38 minutes). ## Report on internet censorship in Mali during 2018 elections During Mali's 2018 presidential election, locals reported that social media was inaccessible. Thanks to daily measurements collected (for more than a year) from Mali by our local partners, we were able to detect changes in censorship policies on Mali's election day. In collaboration with Internet Sans Frontieres, we published a report that shares OONI data, corroborating local reports on the blocking of WhatsApp and Twitter during the elections. We also found circumvention tool sites guardianproject.info and anonymizer.ru to be blocked on the election day as well. Our research report is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/mali-disruptions-amid-2018-election/ Internet Sans Frontieres referenced OONI data from this report as part of their press statement: https://internetwithoutborders.org/mali-censure-des-reseaux-sociaux-pendant… In response, the EU election observation mission in Mali called on the government to guarantee access to the internet and to social media during the whole electoral period (including the second round of elections on 12th August 2018): https://eeas.europa.eu/election-observation-missions/eom-mali-2018/49004/d%…. Internet Sans Frontieres also published a blog post on this: https://internetwithoutborders.org/eu-asks-mali-to-protect-access-to-social… ## Progress on OONI Probe desktop apps A lot of progress was made in working towards a beta release of the OONI Probe desktop apps. See: https://github.com/ooni/probe-desktop/pull/2 We have reached a point where it's possible via the OONI Probe desktop app to run all the experiments currently supported by the mobile app, as well as to view the results. Several views are implemented based on the desktop app mockups and we did some testing and debugging of the app on Windows and macOS. As part of this work, we also made a lot of progress on the command line interface OONI Probe client. See: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/13 Some highlights include being able to build a CLI ooni tool that will run on Linux to empower a fellow OONI developer that is developing on the Linux platform. Although we believe that we have made enough progress to call this a beta, we have decided to hold back a bit from "officially" calling it a beta, since we would like to do a bit more polishing of the desktop and CLI app. In particular, the outstanding issues are noted in the following two GitHub milestones: * OONI Probe Desktop: https://github.com/ooni/probe-desktop/milestone/1 * OONI Probe CLI: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/milestone/1 ## Progress on revamping OONI Probe mobile apps On the iOS version (of the revamped OONI Probe mobile apps), we made some UI and code improvements. See: https://github.com/ooni/probe-ios/commits/feature/gson_objects On the Android version, we finished the dashboard, the class to run tests asynchronously with callbacks and the first test results screen. See: https://github.com/lorenzoPrimi/ooniprobe-android/pull/2 & https://github.com/lorenzoPrimi/ooniprobe-android/pull/3 ## UX research As part of our work on revamping the OONI Probe mobile apps, we carried out UX research that aimed to collect community feedback on the current OONI Probe mobile apps, as well as on our mockups for the revamped/upcoming OONI Probe mobile apps. To this end, we created and circulated a survey, and interviewed multiple community members. We have many more interviews scheduled for August as well. We also published a blog post sharing the links to the survey, and encouraging community members to participate in usability feedback interviews: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooniprobe-ux-survey-and-interviews/ ## Updated test lists We carried out research (https://ooni.torproject.org/get-involved/contribute-test-lists/#test-list-r…) to update the following test lists: 1. South Sudan: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/366 2. Eritrea: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/367 Based on URLs provided by community members, we also updated the following test lists: 1. Uzbekistan: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/363 & https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/368 2. Multiple country test lists with Wikipedia domains: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/365 ## Community use of OONI data ### Human Rights Censorship Dashboards: Monitoring internet censorship in Southeast Asia We are thrilled that Southeast Asian communities have set up a regional Open Observatory! Malaysia's Sinar Project launched the Internet Censorship Dashboards project which engages communities all across Southeast Asia with censorship measurement research through the use of OONI Probe and OONI data. The collected measurements will be displayed in a dashboard, enabling local monitoring of and response to regional censorship events. Their project is available here: https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/updates/human-rights-censorship-das… ### Blocking of websites in Malaysia Malaysia's Sinar Project published a list of censored websites based on OONI data: https://data.sinarproject.org/dataset/list-of-censored-websites/resource/b2… ### Blocking of websites in Burundi CIPESA reported on the blocking of websites in Burundi through the use of OONI Probe and OONI data: https://cipesa.org/2018/07/a-new-interception-law-and-blocked-websites-the-… ### Tor blocking Briar's Torsten Grote created and published data tables that show the blocking of Tor around the world based on OONI measurements. This resource is available here: https://grobox.de/tor/ ## Community activities ### OONI Probe workshop in Albania OONI's Simone and Elio hosted an OONI Probe workshop at the Open Labs Hackerspace in Tirana, Albania, on 6th July 2018. Information about their workshop is available via the following links: https://www.facebook.com/events/396021484219636/ https://wiki.openlabs.cc/faqja/OONI_Probe_Workshop ### Lecture & OONI Probe usability workshop in Ukraine OONI's Maria gave an OONI lecture in Kiev, Ukraine, on 13th July 2018. Information about the event is available here: https://m.facebook.com/events/251993642054831/ She also facilitated a day-long OONI Probe usability workshop in Kiev on 14th July 2018. The aim of this workshop was to introduce local communities to censorship measurement research and collect their feedback on the usability of the OONI Probe apps. As part of the workshop, participants were requested to provide feedback for the current OONI Probe mobile apps, as well as for the mockups of the upcoming/revamped mobile apps. The feedback collected as part of this workshop is guiding the revamp of the OONI Probe mobile apps. ### Cambodia election monitoring Malaysia's Sinar Project leads most OONI community engagement activities across Southeast Asia. Leading up to Cambodia's 2018 elections (29th July 2018), Sinar Project led a campaign to engage locals in Cambodia with OONI Probe testing to montior (potential) censorship events. As part of these efforts, they created customized OONI Run links to measure the blocking of local media and NGO sites, embedded in the following site: https://sinarproject.org/digital-rights/kh-2018-elections/cambodia-2018-ele… ### Community meeting We held a community meeting on Slack (https://slack.openobservatory.org/) on Tuesday, 31st July 2018. As part of our July community meeting, we discussed the following: 1. Updates on internet blackouts methodology and next steps 2. Monitoring internet censorship during Cambodia's elections: Discussion of strategies carried out, lessons learned, feedback for the OONI team, and planned next steps 3. Presentation of Magma: A guide for network measurement and data analysis in risky environments ## Userbase In July 2018, OONI Probe was run 217,316 times from 4,497 different vantage points in 210 countries around the world. This information can also be found through our stats: https://api.ooni.io/stats ~ The OONI team. -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) https://ooni.torproject.org/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E

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[TSoP 2018] Bandwidth scanner update - report #6
by juga 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hi, since the report #5, these has been the tasks i have worked on: sbws ----- - Create Debian package for sbws (#26848) - Initial autopkg test support - Continue with binaries should have manual pages (man) (#26926) - Continue with warn when there is not enough disk space (#26937) - Continue with check that the scaling is working [0] - Run sbws and Torflow from same box - Generate and graph sbws results with and without rtt - Generate and graph sbws results with a bigger time to download data and with default time - Parse raw torflow results - Graph raw torflow results and sbws - Start scaling sbws results in a similar way as torflow does Cheers, juga. [0] https://github.com/pastly/simple-bw-scanner/issues/182

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Network team meeting notes, 6 August 2018
by Nick Mathewson 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hi, everyone! Logs here: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-08-06-16.58.html Pad contents below: = Network team meeting pad! = Welcome to our meeting! Mondays at 1700 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC. (This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) Want to participate? Awesome! Here's what to do: 1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name. 2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put them in boldface! 3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi! Note the meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC! (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.ht… for background.) After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to tor-project @ lists.torproject.org. After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week. == Previous notes == 11 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001828.html 18 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001835.html 25 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001863.html 2 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001866.html 9 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001884.html 16 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001888.html 23 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001926.html 30 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001928.html == Stuff to do every week = * Let's check and update the roadmap. What's done, and what's coming up? url to roadmap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Check reviewer assignments at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet! Are there important documents we should link to? Things we should archive? * Check rotations at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRot… * Community guides, it's time to hand off to the next guide! * Let's look at proposed tickets! [but see discussion] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… == Reminders == * Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily. * Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week. * Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing work for the next releases ------------------------------- ---- 6 August 2018 ------------------------------- == Announcements == == Discussion == * Roadmap revision status -- please get back on that by today. https://pad.riseup.net/p/huDStrBDgqi5 * Backlog on reviews -- is anything stuck? * teor: our current rotations give each person 4 weeks on, then 3 weeks off. I'd prefer 1-2 weeks on, 1 week off. - Let's change starting in september, if there are no objections. * ahf on vacation from wednesday and to the 23rd: i have document planning duty this week, then community hero, then bug triage - anybody up for taking these over the next weeks until i am back? I will happily take yours when I'm back :-) - nick does bug triage on week of 8/20 - Need a CH for next week == Updates == nickm: Last week: * PETS backlog * Port RSA code to nss * various subtickets of 25510 (mobile API): * start tor with owning control port (24204) * fix a bug when restarting with version command * API to expose API implementor * Asked for more 25510 (mobile API) feedback * Prepared for 035 roadmap re-triage with Isabela -- sent email * Finished PETS discussion and meta-review * Diagnosed tricky 27003 regression in 034, due to interesting combination of effects. Needs another review; blocking release candidate. * Revised NSS+DH branch based on feedback from catalyst This week: * Release candidate? * Visiting inlaws Thurdsay through Monday; might miss next monday's meeting. * Revising roadmap. - Other TBD: possibly NSS+TLS depending on backlog status. Mike: Last Week: * Continued to update Open Research Topics post. * Can we link it and Chelsea's post on research.torproject.org? Can we replace the stuff that's there? * Fell into a deep rabbithole with vanguards bugfixing * Wrote https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards/blob/master/README_SECURITY.md - future blogpost on onion service security. * May contain some heresy. Please comment before it's too late! * Wrote a patch to eliminate the last class of unaccounted-for dropped cells in Tor that I would like in 0.3.4. It's just a CIRC_BW event thing for vanguards. Does not affect behavior normally, and does not change the format of CIRC_BW: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25573 * Is a merge commit forward from maint-0.3.4 to master still the way we're handling backports after the code reorg? Can I wait on the maint-0.3.4 review for making this? There are some annoying conflicts to deal with. * Have questions for asn/dgoulet: 1. I am noticing RPs being used that are not in my service's current consensus. Is this legit? Can clients use relays that are not in *any* consensus as RPs? (Like if I decide to use a bridge as an RP?) Will other relays prevent this? [This is legal -- clients and onion services aren't required to have the same consensus. A bridge should not serve as an RP or IP, but I'm not sure we prevent that. -nickm] 2. Can I safely close all of those circuits? What happens to clients when rend circs are ignored/closed? [Clients retry another RP if the service does not respond to a RP, but it's slow, because they have to do another intro as well. -teor] 3. Related: Is it better to close a rend circuit right after the extend to the rend point, or ignore the intro before the rend circuit gets built? [For the network? Ignore the intro. -teor] What happens if you never act on an intro request that you successfully ack (or don't ack)? [The intro point acks the intro, not the service. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v3.txt#n1645 -teor] Is there any difference between either of those and what I'm actually doing wrt performance or security? Can you help me dig/test? (Is ignoring intro requests for certain rends the same as https://bugs.torproject.org/25882 ?) This week: * Sponsor2 report * Catch up on code reviews :/ * Vangaurds release? teor (offline): last week: - I was on the design meetings rotation, but I couldn't find any proposals to progress. I think we did ok with reviewing proposals and updating specs 2 weeks ago. - bwauth mentoring (mainly https://github.com/pastly/simple-bw-scanner/issues/182 ) - PrivCount in Tor: blinding and encryption (#25669, #23126, #26970) - New reviews (#23588) - Fast fixes (#26979, #26986, #23576) - Set up desk and chair - Tor meeting planning - reviewed 0.3.5 roadmap - helped recover consensuses from a Collector outage this week: - I am on the community hero rotation - revise macOS CI for Core Tor (#24629) - Work on PrivCount in Tor blinding and secret sharing branch (#25669) rest of 0.3.5: - Implement PrivCount in Tor noise generation (#26637, maybe #26398) - Merge PrivCount in Tor - Reduce my revision backlog komlo: - Last week: - Reviewed/commented on PrivCount tickets, let me know if we should schedule a meeting to talk over #26970 - This week: - Will finally get the chance to start on #26296, hoping to get a set of initial patches by this week/next week - Prep for RustConf - Send an email this week to aggregate Rust issues that I can check in with Rust people about, such as remaining issues for #25386 ahf: Last week: Sponsor 8: - Helped Arturo with building an embedable Tor .so. Marionette: - Talked with Roger + Georg shortly about Marionette. - Spend some time looking at changes to Marionette since Rome. - Participated in the PT meeting to discuss the above. Misc: - End of month stuff. - Reviewed: #27003, #26903, #26850, #20424, #26952 This week: - Finish all outstanding code reviews before going on vacation. - Write to John from Marionette about contact info etc. in case of troubles with their development efforts. - Make sure everything is good for my Mexico trip. - Go on vacation (8'th of august to 23'rd of august) to do BornHack. Will give a talk on Tor there :-) catalyst: last week (2018-W31): - benefits bureaucracy - reviewed NSS patches some more - reviewed #24649 (macosx builds, really also massive .travis.yml cleanup; thanks teor!) - prop#295 is waiting for Ashur to respond; when should we ping them next? [teor: another week or two?] this week (2018-W32): - ticket review - talk with ahf about #25502 (intermediate PT progress reporting) - create subtickets for #22266 (jump-to-80% problem) and sketch out designs - mikeperry, komlo: is it ok to use/adapt text from your research blog posts for the "big patches" guide? asn: Last week: - Did some triaging on 035/tor-hs tickets. - Looked at some vanguard related issues/code. - Did some more debugging on #26980. - Was on vacations for the better part of the week. This week: - Catch up on backlog from last week. - Do reviews. - Check some updates on ahmia TSOP. - Debug #26980 some more. - Read mike's vanguard updates.

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[TSoP 2018] Ahmia status update ~ report #6
by Stelios Barberakis 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hello all, This is the biweekly status update for ahmia development, that arrives a bit late, since I should have sent it on Friday. The last two weeks I have been working on: === Ahmia-Site === * Added a "Did you mean" functionality. This utilizes Elasticsearch's fuzziness <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/fuzziness.html> functionality, and more specifically phrase suggesters <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/search-suggeste…>, to suggest actual terms when a mispell may have happened. For example: https://ahmia.fi/search/?q=snodwen or https://ahmia.fi/search/?q=tor+netork [1] * Changed the search criteria of elasticsearch searches, by 1) using weighted fields <https://www.elastic.co/blog/multi-field-search-just-got-better> and 2) adding 'anchor' and 'content' fields as well. That has improved the first (upper) results in some cases, and also increases the overall results fetched. [2] * Performed an overall html refactoring, to improve the code structure, fix some unmatched tags, etc [3] * A minor improvement on add onion page, makes clearer the response message, and doesn't redirect to new page. [4] * [Ongoing] I have been Integrating PageRank algorithm in order to improve results sorting based on website popularity. For each page we take into account the backlinks from the rest of the onion addresses to calculate its page rank coefficient. An appropriate formula needs to be done to combine this metric with the already elasticsearch relevance score [5] To be committed soon === Ahmia-Index === * Changed the bulk update request on ES aliases, to an iterative one, to prevent any error on the first requests from disrupting the rest of the requests [6] * Separated *add *and *remove *alias, functionality to make the first crawls of each month available from the beginning of the month. [7] [1] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/issues/25 [2] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/issues/29 [3] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/commit/ddcf1a32321a8506f99eaf8c402c0aec… [4] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/issues/27 [5] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/issues/30 [6] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-index/commit/08952b6609c7d0d8ee82afec4e64a1c… [7] https://github.com/ahmia/ahmia-index/issues/6

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Regenerating storm github login token
by silvia [hiro] 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hi, We need to re-generate the token associated with the github-login mechanism for storm. So if you use github to login to storm.torproject.org you might have to re-authorise it. This will probably happen tomorrow 7th of August. Talk soon, -hiro

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July 2018 report for the metrics team
by Karsten Loesing 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hello Tor, hello world! Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in July 2018. On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten Published detailed specifications for reproducing the data behind Tor Metrics graphs [1]. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/reproducible-metrics.html Published specifications [2] for querying and processing the per-graph CSV files added to Tor Metrics earlier this year. [2] https://metrics.torproject.org/stats.html Added two new graphs [3] to Tor Metrics showing circuit build times [4] and circuit round-trip latencies [5] both of which are based on existing Torperf/OnionPerf data. [3] https://bugs.torproject.org/25774 [4] https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-latencies.html [5] https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-buildtimes.html Extended Relay Search results tables to show a summary row [6] and made a couple of smaller fixes to improve the aggregated search feature [7, 8]. On relay details pages there are no longer false positive "not recommended" banners on relays that are running newer experimental versions [9] and more properties are linked to be able to perform easy follow-up searches for related relays [10]. [6] https://bugs.torproject.org/25050 [7] https://bugs.torproject.org/25238 [8] https://bugs.torproject.org/25864 [9] https://bugs.torproject.org/25159 [10] https://bugs.torproject.org/25533 Updated metrics-bot to now allow posting tweets up to 280 characters, which is good news for those autonomous systems with longer names [11]. Additionally, updated codebase to increase JavaDoc coverage and to comply with Tor Metrics Java styleguide [12]. [11] https://bugs.torproject.org/26762 [12] https://bugs.torproject.org/24692 Released Onionoo version 6.1-1.15.0 [13] which adds a new "os" parameter to filter relays and bridges by operating system, extends the "as" and "country" parameters by a special country code and AS number to return relays that were not found in the GeoIP database, and deprecates the "host_name" field in details documents in favor of the new "verified_host_names" and "unverified_host_names" fields for more accurate DNS results. [13] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-July/013324.html Released CollecTor version 1.7.0 [14] which recognizes the new bridge authority, Serge. [14] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-July/013320.html Fully integrated Relay Search into Tor Metrics [15]. [15] https://bugs.torproject.org/25392

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Notes from August 2 2018 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Notes for August 2 2018 meeting: Mike: 1) Working on the next vanguards release and an associated document on other aspects of onion service security (Steph: This may be just a release announcement blog post, sometime next week. We could also turn the security document into its own post, but other people should read it first)(Sounds good - keep me posted -steph). Sarah: 1) Attending Bridge fundraising conference Wednesday 8/1 and Thursday 8/2. Networking to find a grant writer. 2) Meeting with Giant Rabbit on 8/3 to talk about updates to the Donate pages. 3) Beginning to put together a fundraising calendar. Monthly giving push - month of September. YE campaign starting on Giving Tuesday 11/27 and running through 12/31. 4) Monday 8/6 meeting with Dan and Nat at OTF. Steph: 1) chairing NYC meetup tonight 2) talking to Derechos Digitales about a joint campaign 3) leading a media training workshop for LFI on Saturday 4) working on website copy and tba copy 5) meeting with Giant Rabbit on Fri about updating donate page 6) sent newsletter Tues 7) published support portal translation post, need to get back to a couple of others Nick: 1) Meeting with Isa on Friday and team on Monday to talk about revising roadmap. 2) Got feedback from hellais on mobile APIs: need feedback from other mobile folks asap. Alison: 1) flying to NYC tomorrow 2) LFI weekend! 3) more Mexico City meeting planning -- sending out agenda email soon 4) working on docs for TB 8.0 5) developing support portal feedback workflow Roger: 1) We picked a team for proposing to RACE. FYI, that proposal will fill up all my time for the next 6 weeks. 2) I'm in the final sprint for the anti-censorship funding via penn. This time for sure! Is there somebody I can hand the baton to, for ramping things up? I am burnt out on this proposal and also all full up on the RACE proposal. 3) I got ahf to start working on the Marionette eval for a start. This is important and we shouldn't drop it just because everybody has their roadmaps and none of them include anti-censorship. 4) I asked Mike about sponsor2 report status. Mike? [I am finishing up vanguards things, and then plan to do a quick push to shore up the WTF-PAD code first. I can make an outline for the report in the meantime, if you would like that - Mike] 5) FYI, PETS 2019 is now scheduled: July 15-20 2019, Stockholm. I hereby start a rumor that we might hold our next Tor meeting right before it. People who wanted to learn this already should be on the (public) meeting-planners list. Shari: 1) deep into hiring for several positions 2) got two grant proposals in 3) meeting planning, including for next meeting in Stockholm in July 2019 4) personnel stuff 5) trying to dig myself out from dealing with above Karsten: 1) Published specifications for querying and processing the per-graph CSV files added to Tor Metrics earlier this year. https://metrics.torproject.org/stats.html 2) Finally completed 1 out of 2 deliverables for our Sponsor 13. Arturo: 1) Sarath has joined the OONI team, yay! 2) Made a lot of progress on OONI Probe desktop apps 3) Reviewed and provided feedback to the tor_api.h: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25510 4) We published a report on social media disruptions amid Mali's 2018 presidential election: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/mali-disruptions-amid-2018-election 5) We published a research report examining internet censorship in South Sudan: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/south-sudan-censorship/ 6) We hosted our monthly community meeting 7) We interviewed several community members to collect feedback on the revamp of our mobile apps 8) Next week Maria is presenting OONI at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute and is providing a workshop for journalists and advocates 9) We wrote onboarding documentation to share with every new person that we onboard from here onwards

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July 2018 report for the Tor Browser team
by Georg Koppen 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Hi! This July was one of the few months without any Tor Browser release. We therefore spent all our efforts into fixing bugs in our first desktop alpha based on Firefox 60 ESR and getting it towards a stable shape. Additionally, we focused on preparing our first alpha for Tor Browser on Mobile. For the desktop we continued with our feature[1] and network code[2] review of the changes introduced with the switch to Firefox 60 ESR. Moreover, we focused on getting the onboarding designed and implemented together with our new about:tor page[3] and updated icons[4]. We are excited to test those improvements in the upcoming alpha and adjust them according to user feedback! On Mobile we mostly dealt with our blockers for the upcoming alpha release: rebasing patches[5], possible proxy bypass bugs[6], and user onboarding[7]. We finished the first item and made significant progress on the latter two which makes us optimistic that we get out the first alpha this month, finally. The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in July is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201807` keyword in our bug tracker.[8] For August, as indicated above, we plan to get new alpha releases out, both for mobile and desktop. This will likely happen in the week of August 13. Preparations for that will occupy our focus for the coming two weeks. Thereafter we plan to deal with the fallout while still focusing on the remaining review work for Tor Browser desktop and integrating the mobile Tor Browser build into our reproducible builds environment.[9] All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201808` keyword in our bug tracker.[10] Georg [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22074 [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22176 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25695 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26655 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26401 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21863 [7] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25696 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~TorB… [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26693 [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig…

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