tor-project January 2020

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fosdem?
by Gaba 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hi! The call for proposals is open for fosdem [0] as well as the stand submission [1] . It would be great to have Tor people from Europe giving a talk in the main track and setting up a stand. Any volunteer? [0] https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/ [1] https://submission.fosdem.org/submission/stand -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Anti-censorship meeting notes 16 January 2020
by Cecylia Bocovich 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-01-16-17.59.html And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday January 16th 18:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress). == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == Our anti-censorship roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project… Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… Projects from sponsors we are working on: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 ------------------------- --- January 16th 2020 --- ------------------------- == Announcements == We have a roadmapping meeting next Tuesday (January 21st) at 17UTC == Discussion == Anyone want to mentor a student developer during the summer? We have time to apply until early February. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline Ideas from last year: https://2019.www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Coding == Actions == == Interesting links == TCP congestion control algorithm may make a difference for users behind bad links. May be worth studying. Ask students? https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-January/018066.html == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with. Hiro: (last updated before 2020-01-09) Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation phw: This week (2020-01-16): Started implementing BridgeDB side of #31874 Reviewed design of https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine/pull/227 Helped with creating RACECAR progress report Added go.mod and go.sum to bridgestrap Wrote trip report of talk at FH Hagenberg and visit at JKU Linz Added another default bridge from Denmark Attended sponsor 30 meeting and TTP meeting Next week: Helping with grant writing. Wrap up #31874 Help with: Gaba: () Last week (Jan 6th): getting up to speed in mails/trac This week (planned): preparing roadmap session cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-01-16 Last week: - finished gitlab gettor fixes(#32711) - thought about gsoc projects - updated gettor survival guide - created and made progress on snowflake throughput checks (#32938) - reviewed and debugged more issues with gettor emails (#32906) - updated gettor for newest tor browser alpha - GetTor's github links are now fully working again (#32393) This week: - more grant writing - merge and run gettor script to update gitlab links and files - finish work on snowflake throughput checks (#32938) - roadmapping meeting - write up GSoC projec descriptions for pili - look at reports of shadow socks blocking - switch github gettor provider to new repository (#32977) - check in on censorship measurements again Needs help with: - review of #31971 (from tor browser team) - review of #32711 (from phw) arlolra: 2019-12-12 Last week: - merged #32499 Next week: - read up on turbo tunnel - pick a new task (#31902, #31201, #19026, ?) Help with: - dcf: 2020-01-16 Last week: - deleted the non-IPv6 Snowflake broker (#32502) - filed a ticket for a needed Let's Encrypt upgrade (#32964) Next week: - turbo tunnel in Snowflake Help with: cjb: last updated 2019-01-16 Last week: - came up with a patch for #31011, testing seems difficult, will ask for help in the ticket. Next week: Help with:

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Metrics Team Meeting Notes, January 16th 2020 [includes last week releases]
by Gaba 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hi! Pad for the meeting: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-metricsteam-2020.1-keep Meeting Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-01-16-15.05.log… Agenda and notes: MaxMind database license issue (karsten) karsten creates a ticket to list possible alternatives, and we all think hard about this issue and comment on that ticket Needs review tickets: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… Roadmap (gaba) https://trello.com/b/Mu5fYg53/tor-metrics-roadmap Bugs: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… we will clean up that list to prioritize bugs for next week. Releases last week: #329M74: Release CollecTor 1.14.1 #32967: Release ExoneraTor 4.3.0 #32966: Release CollecTor 1.14.0 #32965: Release metrics-lib 2.10.0 cheers, gaba -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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S30 Meeting on Tuesday 14th January 2020
by Gaba 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Hi! We are meeting today for the S30 project [0]. The meeting with be at 1800 UTC in #tor-meeting, irc.oftc.net cheers, gaba [0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Tor Browser Release meeting this week: Wednesday 15th January @ 19UTC
by Pili Guerra 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Hi everyone, This week we are starting up our Tor Browser release meetings once again. The meeting will take place this Wednesday 15th January @ 19UTC on #tor-meeting. We look forward to seeing you there. Thanks, Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Hi everyone! Here are the minutes from the last sysadmin meeting. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies anarcat, hiro, gaba, qbi present, arma joined in later # What has everyone been up to ## anarcat * unblocked hardware donations ([#29397][]) * finished investigation of the onionoo performance, great team work with the metrics led to significant optimization * summarized the blog situation with hiro ([#32090][]) * ooni load investigation ([#32660][]) * disk space issues for metrics team ([#32644][]) * more puppet code sync with upstream, almost there * built test server for mail service, R&D postponed to january ([#30608][]) * postponed DMARC mailing list fixes to january ([#29770][]) * dealt with major downtime at moly, which mostly affected the translation server (majus), good contacts with cymru staff * dealt with kvm4 crash ([#32801][]) scheduled decom ([#32802][]) * deployed ARM VMs on Linaro openstack * gitlab meeting * untangled monitoring requirements for anti-censorship team ([#32679][]) * finalized iranicum decom ([#32281][]) * went on two week vacations * automated install solutions evaluation and analysis ([#31239][]) * got approval for using emergency ganeti budget * usual churn: sponsor Lektor debian package, puppet merge work, email aliases, PGP key refreshes, metrics.tpo server mystery crash ([#32692][]), DNSSEC rotation, documentation, OONI DNS, NC DNS, etc [#32692]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32692 [#32281]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32281 [#32679]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32679 [#32802]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32802 [#32801]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32801 [#29770]: https://bugs.torproject.org/29770 [#32644]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32644 [#32660]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32660 [#32090]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32090 [#29397]: https://bugs.torproject.org/29397 ## hiro * Tried to debug what's happening on gitlab (a.k.a. dip.torproject.org) * Usual maintenance and upgrades to services (dip, git, ...) * Run security updates * summarized the blog situation ([#32090][]) with anarcat. Fixed the blog template * [www updates][] * Issue with KVM4 not coming back after reboot ([#32801][]) * Following up for the anticensorhip team monitoring issues ([#31159][]) * Working on [nagios checks for bridgedb][] * Oncall during xmas [nagios checks for bridgedb]: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/issues/6 [#31159]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31159 [www updates]: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/web/www-monthly/blob/master/2019-12.md ## qbi * disabled some trac components * deleted a mailing list * created a new mailing list * tried to familiarize with puppet API queries # What we're up to next ## anarcat Probably too ambitious... New: * varnish -> nginx conversion? ([#32462][]) * review cipher suites? ([#32351][]) * publish our puppet source code ([#29387][]) * setup extra ganeti node to test changes to install procedures and especially setup-storage * kvm4 decom ([#32802][]) * install automation tests and refactoring ([#31239][]) * SLA discussion (see below, [#31243][]) [#31243]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31243 [#32462]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32462 [#32351]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32351 [#31239]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31239 [#29387]: https://bugs.torproject.org/29387 Continued/stalled: * followup on SVN shutdown, only corp missing ([#17202][]) * audit of the other installers for ping/ACL issue ([#31781][]) * email services R&D ([#30608][]) * send root@ emails to RT ([#31242][]) * continue prometheus module merges [#17202]: https://bugs.torproject.org/17202 [#31781]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31781 [#30608]: https://bugs.torproject.org/30608 [#31242]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31242 ## Hiro * Updates || migration for the CRM and planning future of donate.tp.o * Lektor + styleguide documentation for GR * Prepare for blog migration * Review build process for the websites * Status of monitoring needs for the anti-censorship team * Status of needrestart and automatic updates ([#31957][]) * Moving on with dip or find out why is having these issues with MRs [#31957]: https://bugs.torproject.org/31957 ## qbi * DMARC mailing list fixes ([#29770][]) # Server replacements The recent crashes of kvm4 ([#32801][]) and moly ([#32762][]) have been scary (e.g. mail, lists, jenkins, puppet and LDAP all went away, translation server went down for a good while). Maybe we should focus our energies on more urgent server replacements, that is specifically kvm4 ([#32802][]) and moly ([#29974][]) for now, but eventually all old KVM hosts should be decommissisoned. [#29974]: https://bugs.torproject.org/29974 [#32762]: https://bugs.torproject.org/32762 We have some budget to expand the Ganeti setup, let's push this ahead and assign tasks and timelines. Consider we need a new VM for GitLab and CRM machines, among other projects. Timeline: 1. end of week: setup fsn-node-03 (anarcat) 2. end of january: setup duplicate CRM nodes and test FS snapshots (hiro) 2. end of january: kvm1/textile migration to the cluster and shutdown 3. end of january: rabbits test new CRM setup and upgrade tests? 4. mid february: CRM upgraded and boxes removed from kvm3? 5. end of Q1 2020: kvm3 migration and shutdown, another gnt-fsn node? We want to streamline the KVM -> Ganeti migration process. We might need extra budget to manage the parallel hosting of gitlab and git.tpo and trac. It's a key blocker in the kvm3 migration, in terms of costs. # Oncall policy We need to answer the following questions: 1. How do users get help? (partly answered by <https://help.torproject.org/tsa/doc/how-to-get-help/>) 2. What is an emergency? 3. What is supported? (This is part of [#31243][].) >From there, we should establish how we provide support for those machines without having to be oncall all the time. We could equally establish whether we should setup rotation schedules for holidays, as a general principle. Things generally went well during the vacations for hiro and arma, but we would like to see how to better handle this during the next vacations. We need to think about how much support we want to offer and how. Anarcat will bring the conversation with vegas to see how we define the priorities, and we'll make sure to better balance the next vacation. # Other discussions N/A. # Next meeting Feb 3rd. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 77, LDAP: 80, Prometheus exporters: 123 * number of apache servers monitored: 32, hits per second: 175 * number of nginx servers: 2, hits per second: 2, hit ratio: 0.87 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 5, mail servers: 10 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 0 * average load: 0.61, memory available: 351.90 GiB/958.80 GiB, running processes: 421 * bytes sent: 148.75 MB/s, received: 94.70 MB/s * planned buster upgrades completion date: 2020-05-22 (20 days later than last estimate, 49 days ago) Happy new year everyone! -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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Community Team report - November & December 2019
by gus 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Community Team November & December 2019 ======================================= Support and Documentation ------------------------- In December, Cleopatra (c1e0 on IRC) started as Outreachy intern in the project "Help Tor support our users" <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Outreachy#Project1:HelpTorPro…>. In the last month, Gus introduced C1e0 in the Frontdesk world, and we worked together to answer users requests. We've narrowed the queue for less than 90 new tickets. C1e0 will compile our users feedback in a monthly report, see <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-January/002645.html>. During the Outreachy contribution period, MacTavish started the Tor Browser for Android Manual, Cleopatra and Gus are reviewing it and in January we will have as a new section inside Tor Browser Manual <https://tb-manual.torproject.org>. Trainings --------- In November we met with training partners in Global South to organize and schedule digital security trainings. And Tails and Tor were presented (among other tools) to journalism students at IUT Lannion (Lannion, France), Sciences Po Rennes (Rennes, France) and Bordeaux Aquitaine Institute of Journalism (IJBA) (Bordeaux, France). In December Fundación Karisma (Colombia) and Zaina Foundation (Tanzania) organised digital security trainings about Tor in their local communities. They used our training materials and followed our User Research guideline to collect feedback to UX team. Outreach -------- November - (Copenhagen) Ahf talked about Tor & circumvention censorship at Driving IT <https://blog.torproject.org/events/driving-it-copenhagen> - (Firenze) Gus talked about Tor at If_do hacklab <https://blog.torproject.org/events/internet-e-anonimato-la-rete-tor-firenze> - (Brussels) Tor Meetup Brussels with ahf, gus, francisco, vasilis <https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-meetup-brussels> - (Brussels) Ahf and Gus organised Tor sessions at Freedom not Fear <https://blog.torproject.org/events/freedom-not-fear-brussels> - (DC) Roger talked at "The Future of Speech Online" <https://blog.torproject.org/events/future-speech-online-dc> - (Seattle) Gaba presented "The State of the Onion" during "Seattle GNU/Linux Conference" <https://blog.torproject.org/events/seagl-seattle> - (Roma) Gus talked about Tor with Avana hacklab at Strike: <https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-workshop-strike-spa-roma> - (Torino) Gus talked about Tor at UNITO - "Non è la silicon valley, ma si mangia meglio!" <https://blog.torproject.org/events/non-e-la-silicon-valley-ma-si-mangia-meg…> - (Barcelona) Pili talked at "V Jornades Internacionals de dones en el sector TIC" <https://blog.torproject.org/events/v-jornades-internacionals-de-dones-en-el…> - (Pune) Kushal speaked about Tor at "WoSec and InfoSecGirls Workshop" <https://blog.torproject.org/events/wosec-and-infosecgirls-workshop-pune> - Global South online meeting notes: <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/global-south/2019-December/000268.ht…> December - (São Paulo) Gus talked about Tor 101 and SecureDrop during Criptofesta <https://blog.torproject.org/events/criptofesta-sao-paulo-0> - (Campinas) Caio talked about Tor and relays in LHC hackerspace <https://blog.torproject.org/events/cebolizando-campinas> - (Brasilia) Gus talked at Criptobaile <https://blog.torproject.org/events/criptobaile-brasilia> - (Brooklyn) Isabela talked about "Taking Back the Internet with Tor" during Hackers Next Door <https://blog.torproject.org/events/hackers-next-door-brooklyn> - (Montevideo) Gaba gave a Tor/infosec workshop to journalists from <ladiaria.com.uy> - Relay operators met during the 36C3, read the assembly notes <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-January/018022.html> - Blog post about Human Rights day <https://blog.torproject.org/digital-rights-are-human-rights> - Global South online meeting notes: <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/global-south/2019-December/000270.ht…> Next Events ----------- February - Meet us during FOSDEM 2020 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2020Brussels> Meta ---- Community Team weekly meetings, every Monday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC <irc.oftc.net> Meeting notes * Community Team Meeting Notes - 04 Nov 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-November/000…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 18 Nov 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-November/000…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 25 Nov 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-November/000…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 02 Dec 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-December/000…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 09 Dec 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-December/000…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 16 Dec 2019 * <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-December/000…>

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www December 2019 report
by Hiro 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

What has happened in December in the Tor www world The blog template has finally been fixed! If you want to know more about the blog status check the following Trac ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32090 The download page has been improved based on feedback received since the redesign. User research has been running over: https://lektor-staging.torproject.org/tpo/develop/download/ We debugged errors in the build process for the websites. This was affecting translations specifically more than other things. We uplifted the styleguide Our wiki content is now in one place: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/web/wiki We improved on Localized links so that a visitor isn't taken out of their locale while browsing. We applied some fixes for left-to-right/right-to-left support of different langauges Meeting notes for Dicember can be found: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/web/www-meeting-notes/blob/master/201… This summary and past and future ones can be accessed online: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/web/www-monthly

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OONI Monthly Report: December 2019
by Maria Xynou 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hello Tor world, In December 2019, the OONI team prioritized on the following: * Integrating the new OONI Probe test for Psiphon into the OONI Probe desktop app * Provisioning of Psiphon configuration into apps * API query optimization * Reducing technical debt and bug fixing ## Circumvention tool testing Throughout December 2019, we made important progress on the testing of circumvention tools. Specifically, we: * Added support for giving out Psiphon configuration files to clients in orchestra: https://github.com/ooni/orchestra/issues/78 * Added client support for performing authenticated orchestra requests: https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine/issues/109 * Added support for running circumvention tool tests inside of the OONI Probe CLI: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/issues/77 Through the above work, we laid the foundation for implementing future circumvention tool tests inside of OONI Probe. You can now download and run the new OONI Probe Psiphon test via one of the latest ooni/probe-cli release candidate builds: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/releases ## Measurement improvements We made a series of improvements to how OONI Probe measurements are performed. Specifically, we: * Released a new version of Measurement Kit which includes DASH using HTTPS: https://github.com/measurement-kit/measurement-kit/releases/tag/v0.10.8 * Validated that the OONI Probe Telegram test works well by using jafar (our censorship simulation tool) to trigger certain network conditions and ensure that the data output is OK: https://github.com/ooni/jafar/pull/15 & https://github.com/ooni/jafar/pull/17 * Added support to probe-engine to use the orchestra to fetch the configuration for Psiphon and to store locally the credentials for logging-in to orchestra: https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine/pull/185 ## OONI Probe 3.0 improvements We added support for the clean shutdown of probe-cli, providing a clean way of interrupting a running test on the OONI Probe desktop app: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/issues/76 We also added support for filtering out incomplete test results (https://github.com/ooni/probe-desktop/pull/92), and we upgraded the styled-components to 4.0.0 (https://github.com/ooni/design-system/issues/49). ## OONI Explorer performance As the new OONI Explorer fetches measurements from the OONI API, improving the performance of OONI Explorer (in order to serve query results faster and more reliably) required improving the performance of the OONI API (see: https://github.com/ooni/api/issues/135). We therefore did a lot of work on improving the OONI API. More specifically, we: * Added throttling to the OONI API in order to prevent abuse: https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/139 * Removed SQLAlchemy models (resulting in performance improvements): https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/153 * Refactored the list_measurements table (resulting in a huge performance boost): https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/150 We also did several other important improvements to the OONI API and data processing pipeline: * Added support for detecting issues with the ingestion of data: https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/issues/256 * Added support for anomalous and confirmed blocked measurement columns in the fast-path pipeline: https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/141 * Added support for filtering by domain name for results in the fast-path pipeline: https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/144 * Created two new tables for citizenlab/test-lists ingestion: https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/274 * Added tables that allow us to query by category code: https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/issues/263 * Explored how to update one of our postgresql databases ## Infrastructure Throughout December 2019, we spent a lot of time improving our infrastructure and dealing with incidents. Details around these incidents and what we did to resolve them are available through the following tickets: https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/issues/410 https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/issues/406 The infrastucture monitoring and alerting system that we have in place enabled us to more easily identify these issues. ## Blog post to encourage LGBTQI site testing In collaboration with OutRight Action International, we jointly published a blog post to encourage OONI Probe testing of LGBTQI websites around the world. The blog post is published on the following sites: * OONI: https://ooni.org/post/2019-measure-blocking-lgbtqi-sites/ * OutRight Action International: https://outrightinternational.org/content/let%E2%80%99s-measure-blocking-lg… VPNCompare published a blog post discussing our LGBTQI testing research: https://www.vpncompare.co.uk/ooni-lgbtqi-censorship/ ## Press coverage An Intercept article was published to cover our joint research report with Coding Rights & Women on Waves (titled "On the blocking of abortion rights websites: Women on Waves & Women on Web"): https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/net-claro-e-vivo-bloqueiam-site-aborto-… ## User-base In December 2019, OONI Probe was run 9,270,932 times from 5,564 different vantage points in 209 countries around the world. This information can also be found through our measurement stats on OONI Explorer (chart on monthly coverage worldwide): http://explorer.ooni.org/ ~ The OONI team. -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) https://ooni.org/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E

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August Fundraising Report
by Sarah Stevenson 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hello Tor world. Here is the Fundraising team’s report for August. As always, let us know if you have any questions. ## Events We ran our first booth at DEF CON in August. It was an exhausting few days, but we exceeded our goal and raised over $43,000! We also made several connections with folks who want to help us with projects in the coming months. We have compiled lessons learned and are looking forward to attending again next year. ## Appeals The Bug Smash campaign[1] ran from August 1 to August 31. We raised a little over $86K across postal mail, social media, email appeal, and in-person gifts at DEF CON and CCCamp. We received a mixture of currencies, including a variety of cryptocurrencies. This a strong increase over August 2018 when we raised $13K. ## Grants We submitted a grant to RIPE NCC Community Project’s support program for 50,000 EUR to improve our IPv6 support. Thanks to teor, Nick, & Gaba for their help writing this proposal. We submitted a concept note to OTF for a large Tor Browser project which would move us away from the ESR cycle and onto Mozilla’s regular release cycle; it would also allow us to implement some of Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection features. Thanks to the Browser team and Pili for making this happen! We found out that two of our grant requests were declined, one to NLnet for ESR migration and the other to the Deer Creek Foundation for Communications work. Upcoming grant requests: DRL SOIs for Community and Scalability, due 9/20 MOSS Scalability project, due 9/?? (rolling) NLnet, due 10/1 Herb Block Foundation, due 10/3 NSF Dark Decoys project, due ?? (rolling) ## Cryptocurrency We made a connection with a company called The Giving Block[2] that helps nonprofits accept cryptocurrency donations called. We are now listed on their website and will participate in their Giving Tuesday efforts this coming December. We are also discussing other ways to collaborate. ## Monthly Donors We continue to see growth in our monthly donor program, Defenders of Privacy. In August we received $5,386.75 from this group. As you can see in the chart below, our efforts to recognize and communicate with these donors has resulted in more stable income and less attrition. We should expect the group to continue to grow through the end of the year and then have a dip again in January when people tend to reassess their monthly commitments. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs <https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs> [2] https://www.thegivingblock.com/donate-bitcoin <https://www.thegivingblock.com/donate-bitcoin>

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