February 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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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-29
by meskio 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-29-15.57.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, March 7 16:00 UTC Facilitator: onyinyang 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: meskio == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work … [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-22
by Shelikhoo 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-22-15.57.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February 29 16:00 UTC Facilitator: onyinyang 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 … [View More]this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at the Tor Project and Tor community. == 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 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 * Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_na… == Announcements == * Belarus - General elections (2024-02-25): https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=BY&since=2024-01-16&until=2024… * Cambodia - Senate election (2024-02-25): https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=KH&since=2024-01-16&until=2024… * Ireland Constitution Amendment Referendum: March 8th == Discussion == * == Actions == == Interesting links == * == Reading group == * We will discuss "" on * * 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. cecylia (cohosh): 2024-02-15 Last week: - caught up on manifest v3 updates - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - release new version of snowflake addon (0.7.3) - updated addon stores - updated website - opened tor-browser-build MR to get SQS rendezvous in Tor Browser - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_re… - fixed shadow integration tests - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - opened an issue for country-specific client rendezvous poll counts - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - caught up on dependency update backlog - mostly caught up on review backlog This week: - review lox synchronization fix - compile a list of next-steps for lox - update wasm-bindgen fork to fix some bugs and hopefully upstream changes - tor-browser-build updates for lox wasm + bindings generation - Conjure bridge maintenance - more testing of available domain fronts Needs help with: dcf: 2024-02-15 Last week: - snowflake azure CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-co… Next week: - review draft MR for unreliable data channels https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker - move snowflake-02 to new VM Help with: meskio: 2023-02-22 Last week: - limit the size of requests in rdsys (rdsys!261) - configure if web proxy headers are trusted in rdsys (rdsys!262) - block connections to localhost in webtunnel (webtunnel!20) - review HTTPS distributor in rdsys (rdsys!260) Next week: - draft an email to request bridges for lox in tor-relays (lox#56) - moat distributor in rdsys Shelikhoo: 2024-02-22 Last Week: - [Merge Request]HTTPS distributors in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/260 - [Research] Inspect Snowflake Situation In China - [Merge Request] Update Renovate Golang version to 1.21(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_reques… - [Merge Request Review] Automatically build container on release and push to our registry. (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) - [Merge Request Review] client: Only accept connections to remote hosts (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webt…) - Attend Online FOCI - Merge request reviews Next Week/TODO: - Inspect Snowflake Situation In China - Create Issue for "Merging webtunnel + lyrebird" - Update WebTunnel Container Image onyinyang: 2023-02-15 Last week(s): - Finished up fixing problems with syncing functions - Opened ticket to Lox invitation endpoint only accessible via telegram This week: - redeploy rdsys and lox-distributor with bug fixes and telegram bot - improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is working/valuable - start prep for HACS/DRL meeting - sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum - attempt hyper upgrade again (long term things were discussed at the meeting!): https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep - brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are distributed/use in practice Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate resources to people? 1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we can already consider? e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a requesting user's geoip or something?) 2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access to 1)? More? Less? theodorsm: 2023-01-11 Last weeks: - Currently in the start phase of writing my master thesis (to be finished late june 2024) in communication technology on reducing distinguishability of DTLS. The goal is to implement a validated DTLS anti-fingerprinting library similar to uTLS (useful for Snowflake). Next weeks: - Talk with Sean DuBois about contributing to adding anti-fingerprinting capabilities to the pion library Help with: - Find recent data set of captured DTLS traffic [View Less]

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Job Opportunity - Rust Developer
by Patricia Robinson 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

** *Hi Everyone!* * Sending along again for improved readability. :) We have two new job openings for Rust Developers! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/ <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/> If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Have a great week and thanks for helping us spread the word! :) Warmly, Patricia Robinson Tor Project, Inc. Recruiting Coordinator *

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Job Opportunity- Rust Developer
by Patricia Robinson 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

** *Hi Everyone!* * We have two new job openings for Rust Developers! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/ <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/> If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Have a great week and thanks for helping us spread the word! :) Warmly, Patricia Robinson Tor Project, Inc. Recruiting Coordinator *

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Tor Browser Meeting moved to 2024-02-20
by Richard Pospesel 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Hi Everyone, Monday is a holiday so we'll be moving our regularly scheduled Tor Browser weekly meeting to Tuesday (2024-02-20) at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC. best, -richadr

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-15
by meskio 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-15-15.57.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February 22 16:00 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: meskio == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. … [View More]

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Job Opportunity - Mullvad Browser Software Engineer (Contractor)
by Tyler Corn 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Hi Everyone! We have a new job opening for a Browser Software Engineer (Contractor)! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/browser-software-engineer/ If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Have a great weekend and thanks for helping us spread the word! 🙂 Best, Tyler

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