January 2024 - tor-project - lists.torproject.org

Are there countries where using Tor is illegal?
by Cristian Consonni 11 May '25

11 May '25

Hi, (Sorry if this question has already been asked in the past, feel free to point me to the relevant resources.) I know that the legal FAQs by the EFF state that: «we believe that running a Tor relay — including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic — is legal under U.S. law.»[1] I also know there is a list of countries for which there is legislation that exclude communication service providers from liability. They are indicated in the Legal of the Tor … [View More]

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cohosh's monthly status report, December 2023
by Cecylia Bocovich 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in December 2023. # Reputation-based bridge distribution - Continued Tor Browser integration work https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/116 - Debugged some issues with the lox distributor deployment https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41406 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/40 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/42 https://gitlab.… [View More]

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Retirement of Gitolite and GitWeb started, please migrate by end of year
by Antoine Beaupré 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Hi, Gitolite (`git.torproject.org` and `git-rw.torproject.org`) and GitWeb (<https://gitweb.torproject.org>) will be fully retired within 9 to 12 months (by the end of Q2 2024). TPA will implement redirections on the web interfaces to maintain limited backwards compatibility for the old URLs. Start migrating your repositories now by following the [migration procedure][], and please complete the migration by the end of year 2023. See the full discussion in [TPA-RFC-36][]. [migration … [View More]

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Tor Browser weekly meeting moved to February 6th 1500 UTC
by Richard Pospesel 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Hi everyone, Due to scheduling conflicts, we will be moving our weekly Tor Browser meeting to Tuesday February 6th at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC. best, -richard

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

The usual, sorry nothing fancy this month. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies no emergency. anarcat and lavamind online. # Dashboard cleanup Normal per-user check-in: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… General dashboards: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/… [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-01-25
by onyinyang 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-01-25-15.58.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February 116:00 UTC Facilitator: shelikhoo Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week's Facilitator: onyinyang == Goal of … [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-01-18
by Shelikhoo 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-01-18-15.57.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, January 25 16:00 UTC Facilitator: cohosh Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week's Facilitator: shelikhoo == Goal of this … [View More]

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Tails report for December 2023
by bokonon 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Tails report for December 2023 <https://tails.net/news/report_2023_12/> Happy 2024, Tails-y folks! We wish you a year full of nourishing energies, forceful resistance, and great health ✊🏽 Highlights * 2023 was an eventful year at Tails. We kicked off the 1st year of our 3-year strategic plan with 16 releases of Tails, significant improvements to core Tails features like the new Persistent Storage, and researched cool, new features we want to bring to you. In … [View More]

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Tor Browser meeting moved to Tuesday (2024-01-16)
by Richard Pospesel 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Hey everyone, Monday is a holiday so we'll be moving our weekly meeting to Tuesday this week at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC. best, -richard

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ebanam's monthly status report and user support report for December 2023
by ebanam 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Hello everyone! Like the past few months, much of my focus in December was to help users in regions where Tor is censored which includes but is not limited to using pluggable transports which are likely to work in their region, help with troubleshooting and answering other common Tor Browser related questions. With four Tor Browser stable releases I also worked on post-release user support work. We received numerous reports of PTs crashing for users on Windows 7 after the Tor Browser 13.0.7 … [View More]update. Although the issue is resolved now (with Tor Browser 13.0.8) we expect to see more tickets from Windows 7 as Tor Browser will neccessarily have to drop support for Windows 7 and 8 after the Firefox ESR 128 transition this year. For any Windows 7 tickets we receive, we are encouraging Tor Browser users to either upgrade their systems to a modern Linux distribution, or at least to a supported version of Windows (10 or higher). Following is a thorough breakdown of tickets our user support team handled in December: # Frontdesk (email support channel) * 537(↓) RT tickets created * 474(↓) RT tickets resolved Tickets by numbers: 1. 199(↓) RT tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 2. 150(↓) RT tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 3. 5 RT tickets: PTs on Tor Browser 13 do not work with Windows 7 (issue is resolved with Tor Browser 13.0.8)[0] 4. 2 RT tickets: "Proxy Server Refused Connection" on Tor Browser for Android specific to Oppo/Realme devices[1] Highlighting some other topics we received questions and feedback: 5. Circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 6. Help with setting up onion service 7. Explaination about the "New Identity" and "New Tor Circuit" in Tor Browser[2] 8. How to import bookmarks in Tor Browser from other browsers[3] 9. Adding a search engine to Tor Browser 10. One report of an app masquerading as official Tor Browser app on iOS AppStore. 11. Tor Browser binary disappeared on Windows (this was likely because of anti-virus software installed on the user's system) 12. Contributing and volunteering to Tor 13. Tor Browser crashes when extensions popups are opened with Wayland enabled[4] 14. Images unable to render on some sites due to HTML5 Canvas fingerprinting being blocked in Tor Browser # Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal Support channel * 550(↓) tickets resolved Breakdown: * 521(↓) tickets on Telegram * 16(↓) tickets on WhatsApp * 13(↑) tickets on Signal Tickets by numbers: 1. 349(↑) tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 2. 23(↓) tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 3. 42(-) tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 4. 8 tickets: PTs on Tor Browser 13 do not work with Windows 7 (issue is resolved with Tor Browser 13.0.8) Highlighting some other topics we received questions about: 5. 2 tickets: user feedback about WebTunnel from regions where Tor is censored 6. 2 tickets: Configuring little-t-tor to use Pluggable Transports 7. 2 tickets: Unable to reach some onion site (these particular onion sites were offline) 8. "Proxy Server Refused Connection" on Tor Browser for Android specific to Oppo/Realme devices 9. Question about letterboxing on Tor Browser # Highlights from the Tor Forum 1. Tor Browser freezes/lags after update[5] 2. Tor Browser locking up on Windows 10 with all the latest patches[6] 3. Onion sites unreachable[7] (These are all v2 onion sites, which have been deprecated way back in 2021)[8] Thanks! e. Note: (↑), (↓) and (-) are indicating if the number of tickets we received for these topics have been increasing, decreasing or have been the same from the previous month respectively. [0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42179 [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41289 [2]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/managing-identities/ [3]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/export-and-import-bookmarks/ [4]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42306 [5]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/problem-tor-freezes-lags-after-update-to-v13… [6]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-locking-up-on-windows-10-with-al… [7]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/impossible-dafficher-le-contenu-des-pages/10… [8]: https://support.torproject.org/onionservices/v2-deprecation/ [View Less]

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