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Tails report for July 2020
by sajolida＠pimienta.org 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Tails report for July, 2020 [1] RELEASES * Tails 4.9 was released on June 28 [2]. * Tails 4.10 is scheduled for August 25 [3]. CODE * Prepared upgrade to tor 0.4.3.6 (#17835 [4]) * Researched how to cope with the fact Electrum is not installable on Buster anymore (#17828 [5]) * Improved robustness of our automated test suite * Documented some internal processes (#17571 [6], #17772 [7]) DOCUMENTATION AND WEBSITE * We documented how to use USB tethering [8] when Wi-Fi doesn't work in Tails. (#16987 [9]) * We improved our FAQ on VPN [10]. (#9145 [11]) USER EXPERIENCE * Launched a user survey about ease of use, online privacy tools, OpenPGP, and Pidgin. (#17821 [12]) We got more than 600 responses so far. Thanks a lot to everybody who participated! HOT TOPICS ON OUR HELP DESK We started the month with Tails 4.8 and many users wrote to us because of problems with the Tails Welcome Screen: * They had issues with administration passwords that had special characters [13]. * They could not access their persistent storage because changing the language on the Welcome Screen didn't change the keyboard layout [14] as usual, although it claimed to do it. These two issues were very upsetting for the users, although had easy workarounds. They are fixed in Tails 4.9 (Apologies!), but in the same time the kernel upgrade brought new issues (Re: Apologies!): * A lot of people reported the starting Tails was impossible since the upgrade to Tails 4.9 with their Intel Corporation [8086:22b0] GPU [15]. * Some people reported that their Wi-Fi adapter was not working anymore [16]. INFRASTRUCTURE * Put our translation platform [17]. back in sync' with Git * Updated our Jenkins and its plugins (tails/sysadmin/-/issues/16955 [18]) * Improved our monitoring of download mirrors * Ported detection of stalled issues/MRs to GitLab (!110 [19]) FUNDING * Our proposal to OTF on anti-censorship was paused due to their budget problems [20]. * Our joint proposal with Tor to DRL was declined but invited to submit again next year. * We applied to the Mecenat Code Lutins [21] to work on usability improvements. * We added Wordable and Exam Success as partners [22]. * We coded some A/B testing to measure the impact of a design change on our one-time and monthly donations buttons. (52a2d90a42 [23]) * We made plans to improve our donation process [24]. * We published our income statement for 2019 [25]. OUTREACH PAST EVENTS * Mexico City hackerspace RANCHO ELECTRÓNICO did a series of three virtual Tails workshops [26] on July 14 - 21 and August 4 as part of their AutoDefensa Digital [27] sessions. TRANSLATIONS ALL THE WEBSITE * fr: 82% (5350) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy * es: 46% (3030) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy * de: 30% (1966) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy * it: 27% (1795) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy * fa: 22% (1468) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy * pt: 21% (1401) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE [28] * fr: 80% (1678) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy * es: 75% (1565) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy * it: 49% (1031) strings translated, 21% strings fuzzy * de: 49% (1025) strings translated, 22% strings fuzzy * pt: 39% (812) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy * fa: 19% (414) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE FOR LANGUAGES NOT ACTIVATED ON THE WEBSITE YET * zh_TW: 25% (447) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy * zh: 12% (224) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy * ru: 8% (160) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy * pl: 8% (149) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy * tr: 8% (148) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy * ar: 7% (132) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy * ca: 7% (131) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy * id: 5% (99) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy * sr_Latn: 4% (80) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy METRICS * Tails has been started more than 951 736 times this month. This makes 30 701 boots a day on average. How do we know this? [29] Links: ------ [1] https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2020_07/ [2] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.9/index.en.html [3] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/ [4] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17835 [5] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17828 [6] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17571 [7] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17772 [8] https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/networkmanager/index.en.html#… [9] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16987 [10] https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#vpn [11] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/9145 [12] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17821 [13] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17792 [14] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17794 [15] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/16447#note_153909 [16] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17786#note_152948 [17] https://translate.tails.boum.org/ [18] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/sysadmin/-/issues/16955 [19] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/110 [20] https://saveinternetfreedom.tech/ [21] https://framaforms.org/mecenat-code-lutin-2020-1589209347 [22] https://tails.boum.org/partners/index.en.html [23] https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/commit/52a2d90a42 [24] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/donation_process/ [25] https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/finances/#2019 [26] https://ranchoelectronico.org/3era-sesion-tails/ [27] https://ranchoelectronico.org/tag/autodefensadigital/ [28] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt [29] https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#boot_statistics

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Anti-censorship team monthly report: July 2020
by Philipp Winter 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Hi all, Here's the July 2020 report of Tor's anti-censorship team: Snowflake ========= * Rolled out a feature to match up Snowflake proxies and clients based on their NAT type. This will drastically improve performance for Snowflake clients behind restrictive NATs. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Added more STUN servers to default configuration in Tor Browser. This solves two issues: it allows clients to perform NAT type discovery to be matched up with more compatible proxies, and it unblocks Snowflake in areas that block access to Google's STUN servers. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Adapted Snowflake CI to the new GitLab instance. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Investigated proxy-go timeouts. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Fixed a small bug that could cause infinite hangs in Snowflake proxies and clients. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Worked on a docker container for easy deployment of Snowflake proxies. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Moved forward with our Android app UI. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… BridgeDB ======== * Fixed a critical bug that prevented BridgeDB from reloading bridge descriptors every 30 minutes, as it's supposed to. This bug significantly delayed the time until a new bridge was handed out to users. Hopefully, the patch will result in bridge operators seeing more users. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40001 * We are spending an increasing amount of time planning and experimenting with a reimplementation of BridgeDB. The reimplementation will make it easier to integrate new components like bridgestrap and new distributors like Salmon. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32900 * Added internal metrics to BridgeDB's metrics. You can find the latest internal metrics here: https://collector.torproject.org/recent/bridgedb-metrics/ https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/31422 * Wrote a patch that helps BridgeDB take into account bridge reachability measurements from wolpertinger. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34260 * Fixed incorrect and missing parts in BridgeDB's metrics specification. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40003 * Fixed a broken link in BridgeDB's README and ported BridgeDB's "make pylint" target to Python 3. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/33647 * Fixed a bug that would confuse BridgeDB when it dealt with Gmail's quoted responses. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/33835 * Made progress on creating a research plan for understanding the issues that users run into when interacting with BridgeDB. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4 Miscellaneous ============= * Simplified bridgestrap's code base and fixed a bug in its cashing system. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/ * Merged a volunteer-provided bridge setup guide for Windows. https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/windows/

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 06 Aug 2020
by Philipp Winter 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Hi all, Here are our meeting minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-08-06-15.59.html And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday August 6th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 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: * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… * Sponsor 30 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels * Public bug-reporting pad: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep == Announcements == * Created a pad for public/anonymous bug reports: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep == Discussion == * == Actions == * == Interesting links == * == Reading group == * We will discuss "Turbo Tunnel" on Aug 20 * PDF: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/turbotunnel/turbotunnel.pdf * Web version: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/turbotunnel/ * Questions to ask and goals to have: * What aspects of the paper are questionable? * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? * Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. phw: This week (2020-07-30): * Spent most of my time working on BridgeDB reimplementation. * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32900 * Experimented with Salmon implementation. * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/31873 Next week: * Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259. Help with: * cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-08-06 Last week: - wrote a fix for snowflake#40005 - implemented partial NAT discovery at proxies (snowflake-webext#13) - updated .gitlab-ci.yml for snowflake-webext (snowflake-webext!2) - started looking and go and docker solutions for NAT test suite (#25595) This week: - continue working on NAT test suite (#25595) - start working on #21314 - continue with GetTor + BridgeDB refactor - look at snowflake#40004 - review snowflake-webext!3 Needs help with: - review of tor-browser-build#40016 (tbb-team) - review of NAT discovery for snowflake proxies (snowflake-webext!1) juggy : This week: - Got very basic "suggested readings" list up and running here : https://jugheadjones10.github.io/anti-censorship-reading/ Next week: - Keep studying BridgeDB to write architectural overview Help with: - Open issues here (https://github.com/jugheadjones10/anti-censorship-reading) for papers/resources/readings that you think might be useful for newcomers arlolra: 2020-06-11 Last week: - Next week: - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2020-08-06 Last week: - reviewed broker interaction timeouts (tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake!8) - re-sent invitation for Snowflake CDN admin access (tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake#30510) - wrote a patch to update bug-reporting instructions (tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext#14) Next week: - review browser proxy NAT type detection (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… ) - add licenses of kcp-go and smux (tor-browser-build#40031) Help with: - HTML patch to update bug-reporting instructions (tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext!3) Antonela: 2020-07-23 Last week: - (S28) Snowflake Android App UI https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - (S30) Making bridges.tpo looks like tpo.org https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322 - (S30) Planning activities for the user group in HK (happening next week): - Run emma https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%2… - Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4 This week: - (S28) Review Snowflake Android App UI - (S30) Working on making bridges.tpo work with lektor - (S30) Sent Get Bridges User Research to the group in HK. Will meet them on Friday. Final script: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4 agix:2020-07-23 Last week: -on vacay till 08-03 Next week: - Help with: - hanneloresx: 2020-07-30 Last week: took a break to focus on emergency at my job Next week: - Work on #32117 - Work on #33727 Help with: - thymbahutymba: 2020-04-02 Last week: - CI/CD pipeline for multiarch docker images, which has a problem with the apt tor version even though the apt repository have been changed into the Dockerfile. Next week: Help with: HashikD: 2020-07-16 Last week: - Made designs for Snowflake mobile: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - #6 Showing users stat about how many clients they served in the past 24 Next week: - Work on ticket #11 Help with: -

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User Experience Team monthly meeting notes, August 4th
by Antonela Debiasi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Hello! Today's meeting features folks from the Guardian Project and their latest major Onion Browser release. Thanks GP for sharing this experience with us! Open IRC meetings happen monthly every first Tuesday of the month 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Next meeting is on* Tuesday 1st September 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.* Here are the minutes for the meeting of August 4th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-08-04-13.58.log… Here are the minutes for the meeting of July 7th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-07-13.59.log… Pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep -------------------------------------------- *Tuesday August 4th 14:00 UTC* -------------------------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… []=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… []=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX S58 - Tor Browser Security, Performance, & Usability Improvements - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… []=Sponsor%2058&label_name[]=UX == Announcements == * Tor Browser 9.5 Release - https://www.torproject.org/releases/tor-browser-95/ - https://torproject.org/download/ * Onion Browser Release & User Feedback Survey - https://onionbrowser.com/ - https://github.com/OnionBrowser/OnionBrowser - https://guardianproject.info/2019/10/08/onions-on-apples-a-new-release-of-o… - https://okthanks.typeform.com/to/JhNvX9 - Onion Browser Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EGa7AlFOiM&t=194s * OONI Probe 2.5 Release - Desktop > https://ooni.org/install/desktop - Mobile > https://ooni.org/install/mobile == Agenda == - Onion Browser Release with Guardian Project - TBA Fenix redesign with Antonela - Get Bridges User Research with nah/Antonela == Open Calls == For Design & User Research == No Open Calls at this time Thanks, A -- Antonela Debiasi UX Team Lead torproject.org @antonela E2330A6D1EB5A0C8

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