April 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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Job opening at Tor - Network Health Engineer
by Tyler Corn 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hi everyone! We have a new job opening for a Network Health Engineer! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/network-health/ 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! 🙂 Best, Tyler

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-04-25
by onyinyang 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-04-25-16.15.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, May 2 16:00 UTC Facilitator: meskio ^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail) 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:… [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-04-18
by Shelikhoo 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-04-18-16.15.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, Apr 25 16:00 UTC Facilitator: onyingyang ^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail) Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week's … [View More]

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Job Opportunity - Grants Coordinator
by Erin Wyatt 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Hello everyone, We have a new job opening for a Grants Coordinator! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/grants-coordinator/ If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Thanks! :) Cheers, Erin

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OONI Monthly Report: March 2024
by Maria Xynou 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello, This email shares OONI's monthly report for March 2024. *# OONI Monthly Report: March 2024* Throughout March 2024, the OONI team worked on the following sprints: * Sprint 112 (1st-10th March 2024) * Sprint 113 (11th-24th March 2024) Our work can be tracked through the various OONI GitHub repositories: https://github.com/ooni Highlights are shared in this report below. *## OONI Run* As part of our work on creating the next generation version of OONI Run (“OONI Run v2”), there were … [View More]

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OONI Monthly Report: February 2024
by Maria Xynou 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello, This email shares OONI's monthly report for February 2024. *# OONI Monthly Report: February 2024* Throughout February 2024, the OONI team worked on the following sprints: * Sprint 110 (1st-11th February 2024) * Sprint 111 (12th - 25th February 2024) Our work can be tracked through the various OONI GitHub repositories: https://github.com/ooni Highlights are shared in this report below. *## New partnership with Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan* In February 2024, we had the … [View More]

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OONI Monthly Report: January 2024
by Maria Xynou 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello, This email shares OONI's monthly report for January 2024. *# OONI Monthly Report: January 2024* Throughout January 2024, the OONI team worked on the following sprints: * Sprint 108 (1st - 14th January 2024) * Sprint 109 (15th - 28th January 2024) Our work can be tracked through the various OONI GitHub repositories: https://github.com/ooni Highlights are shared in this report below. *## Published report on news media censorship in Bangladesh during 2024 elections* In January 2024, … [View More]

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ebanam's monthly status report and user support report for March 2024
by ebanam 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Hello all, Last month we saw a massive uptick in support requests from Chinese speaking users due the outreach work[0]. Helped users with troubleshooting and using pluggable transport that works best for them. With three Tor Browser stable releases, much of my work went into post-release user support work. We got a number of reports about the Snowflake domain fronting issue with Fastly[1], which was fixed with Tor Browser 13.0.11. We got a few questions about the removal of automatic … [View More]onionsite prioritization[2] with Tor Browser 13.0.12. In terms of documentation, I added a unified section about installing little-t-tor (tor the network daemon) to our support portal[3]. Following is a thorough breakdown of tickets our user support team handled in March: # Frontdesk (email support channel) * 645(↑) RT tickets created * 617(↑) RT tickets resolved Tickets by numbers: 1. 292(↑) RT tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 2. 154(↑) RT tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 3. 23 RT tickets: Snowflake domain fronting issue with Fastly. 4. 10(↓) RT tickets: private bridge and help with circumventing censorship requests from regions where Tor is not blocked. The issues were mostly resolved by troubleshooting and analysing Tor logs and the issues ranged from - firewall, VPN & antivirus interrupting the connection to having an incorrect system clock. 5. 5 RT tickets: Reports of websites blocking Tor. 6. 3 RT tickets: Questions about removal of automatic .onion site prioritization in Tor Browser. 7. 3 RT tickets: Help with installing Tor Browser on Linux. 8. 2(↓) RT tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. Highlighting some other topics we received questions and feedback: 9. Help with verifying Tor Browser's signature. 10. Question if Tor Browser can be installed on Chromebooks[4] 11. Report of an app on iOS App Store masquerading as Tor Browser. 12. Troubleshooting Tor Browser post-update on Windows. Issue with anti-virus software flagging Tor Browser. 13. Troubleshooting Tor Browser install on macOS. User was on a very old and unsupported version of macOS. 14. Questions about how to get started with Tor Browser after installation[5]. # Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal Support channel * 628(↑) tickets resolved Breakdown: * 592(↑) tickets on Telegram * 35(↑) tickets on WhatsApp * 1(↓) ticket on Signal Tickets by numbers: 1. 351(↑) tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 2. 57(↑) tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 3. 49(↑) tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 4. 14 tickets: Which Tor apps to install on iOS and questions about Onion Browser and Orbot for iOS. 5. 3 tickets: Snowflake domain fronting issue with Fastly. Highlighting some other topics we received questions about: 6. 2 tickets: Reports of onion services (not maintained by us) being offline. We asked the users to contact the concerned onion service maintainers. 7. 2 tickets: Help with GPG signature verification while installing Tor Browser. 8. 2 tickets: Instructions on how to fetch latest Tor Browser binaries from GetTor. 9. Help with troubleshooting Tor Browser for Android. 10. Help with using bridges with Tor Browser on TailsOS. 11. Help with installing Tor Browser on Linux (ArchLinux). 12. Question whether Tor Browser is supported on AndroidTV. # Highlights from the Tor Forum 1. Snowflake add-on no longer listed on addons.mozilla.org[6]. 2. iPad: Need Help With Download & Installation (Onion Browser and Orbot)[7]. 3. Removal of automatic .onion site prioritization in Tor Browser[8]. 4. (Fix) Problems with Snowflake since 2024-03-01: "broker failure Unexpected error, no answer."[9] 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://github.com/torproject/tor4zh/ [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/135 [2]: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13012/ [3]: https://support.torproject.org/little-t-tor/install-little-t-tor/ [4]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-15/ [5]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/running-tor-browser/ [6]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-add-on-no-longer-listed-on-addons-… [7]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/ipad-need-help-with-download-installation/11… [8]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/connect-to-onion-when-available/12134 [9]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/fix-problems-with-snowflake-since-2024-03-01… [View Less]

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