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Anti-censorship team monthly report: January 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Anti-censorship team Jan 2021 report ==================================== Snowflake --------- *There was an unexplained 4-day decrease in the number of Snowflake users, almost to zero. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2021-January/00… * Changed some domains used by the Snowflake proxy browser extension, to avoid antivirus warnings. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Updated version of webrtc dependency to new major version release https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Version bump for snowflake in Tor Browser * Reclassified proxies with unknown NAT types to be in the restricted NAT bucket https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Prevent proxies from reverting from a known NAT type to an unknown NAT type https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… BridgeDB/rdsys -------------- * Wrapped up documentation that discusses how rdsys tests resources. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/31 * Implemented a pluggable "persistence layer" in rdsys that helps distributors seamlessly store persistent data. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/5 * Summarised long-term plans regarding the future of BridgeDB and rdsys. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/12 * Filed "meta issue" for Salmon and a bunch of new child issues. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/35 * Allowed more granular specification of distribution proportions https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/37 GetTor ------ * Added redaction of email addresses from SMTP error messages before errors are logged. This is to protect personal information from being saved in logs. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/trac/-/iss… * Updated version of GetTor binaries to include fix for meek-azure bug https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/-/i… * Fixed GetTor's locale parser https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/-/i… Bridgestrap -------------- * Finally merged the issue we had with Tor going dormant on bridgestrap. In the process we discovered another issue in the way bridgestrap interacted with its Tor controller library. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/12 Other ----- * Default bridges did not work in Tor Browser 10.5a7, but are working again in 10.5a8. The underlying cause was a problem in tor's configuration parsing. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a7 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8 * Brainstormed ways to build a Web-based version of our censorship analysis tool emma. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/emma/-/issues/4 * Started teaching emma to try more than once if a TCP connection times out. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/emma/-/issues/6 * Published a job opening in the anti-censorship team: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship/ * Philipp reviewed research papers for the DNS Privacy Workshop: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2021/cfp-dns-privacy-workshop/ * We have a wiki page for our anti-censorship reading group: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Anti-censors…

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UX team meeting on February 9th
by Duncan Larsen-Russell 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hi everyone, Our next User Experience team meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th February at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting.* During this meeting we'll discuss upcoming work for the UX team across key projects, alongside hosting an open call for user research where we’ll outline ways in which community members can help contribute towards user research for Tor. If you'd like to get involved please feel free to add yourself to the pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep <https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep> Remember, User Experience team meetings are an open space for discussion around ethical user research, user interface design and the user experience of privacy-enhancing products. See you soon! Duncan [*] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/wikis/home <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/wikis/home>

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