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August Communications Report
by Stephanie A. Whited 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Hello Tor! In August, the team spent time improving aspects of our newsletter, including making the unsubscribe and opt-out functions clearer. We also worked on copy for the TBA and TB8 releases, and Steph has been working with Isa and Antonela on the new website. Steph led a media training at LFI and a 2nd Tor session at CS4CS, a cybersecurity program for high school women (thanks to gman999 for support and Yin for coordinating). Roger and Steph went to DEF CON. Roger’s AMA was allowed to go long because it was so engaging, and we picked up some donations. Attendees asked why we didn’t have a booth, so we definitely want to next year! Mark your calendars if you want to help (we’ll need a group of committed folks for our booth): August 8-11, 2019 in Las Vegas. We’re also in talks to create a Tor badge for next year. August in links and stats: Blog posts https://blog.torproject.org/pune-meetup-privacy-tools-and-technologies https://blog.torproject.org/tor-friends-and-relay-operators-meetup-berlin https://blog.torproject.org/volunteer-spotlight-sina-rabbani-helps-activist… Twitter https://twitter.com/torproject avg at least 3 tweets/weekday New followers: 2,854 Top tweets https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1031988541469937664 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1030079468541374464 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1035609722844585984 Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@torproject at least 1 post/week New followers: 870 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/torproject/ at least 1 post/month New followers: 24 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/tor-project/ at least 1 post/week New followers: 49 Facebook https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/TorProject/ at least 1 post/weekday New followers: 167 Newsletter 1/month (held for TB8) https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2018-09-06-we-gave-tor-browser-ux… o/ comms -- Stephanie A. Whited Communications Director The Tor Project IRC: stephw PGP Key ID: 39A876AD <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6D6B72C339A876AD>

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Notes from the Tor Browser meeting, 10 Sep 2018
by Georg Koppen 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hi! Yesterday we had our weekly Tor Browser meeting. The IRC log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-09-10-18.00.log… The notes from our pad are: Tor Browser Meeting Notes Monday September 10, 2018 Discussion: -User Agent (GeKo: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146#comment:33 has our current plan) -State of the Onion at the dev meeting (GeKo: We'll mull over what to talk about and decide next Monday who will be presenting on behalf of the team) -Mozilla/Tor TB8 Retrospective (GeKo: Good idea, let's do it after Mexico (see https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-September/000908.html)) GeKo: Last week: -help with getting our releases out (8.0, 8.5a1 and 1.0a1 for mobile) We did it! \o/ -started organizing issues with the tbb-8.0-issues keyword (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=~tbb…) -begin of the month admin stuff -help with new DRL proposal -created new gpg subkeys This week: -tbb-8.0-issues (GeKo: The plan is to get a 8.0.1 release out next week, tackling issues marked with tbb-8.0.1-can) -tor browser for mobile planning (GeKo: the meeting is on 9/11 at 1800 UTC, presumably in #tor-meeting) -could need a second look at rust proxy safety (sysrqb: could you help with that? gk: sure) tjr - So close to landing a mingw-clang x64 browser build job in -central. 2 patches need r+'s - Outstanding things to be done for mingw-clang: --enable-sandbox, x86, get it running :( - I can backport it to -esr60 after a supposedly coming NSS version bump lands. - Tried some debugging for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1466192 (jemalloc on Windows in mingw-gcc) but no progress yet - Sent fuzzyfox in for review! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432429 (GeKo: Yay!) mcs and brade: Last week: - Used staged MAR files to test Tor Browser 7.5.6 to 8.0 updates (no issues found). - Helped with bug triage. - Completed month-end administrative tasks. - Was away from keyboard Thursday and Friday. This week: - Review the fix for #26381 (broken about:tor on Windows with sandboxing). - Work on tickets flagged with the tbb-8.0-issues keyword. - Help with triage of new tickets. - Review our notes from #22074 (undocumented bugs since FF52esr) and file additional tickets if necessary. sysrqb: Last week: Finally released TBA 1.0a1 Moved. Landed patch for #27400 - Target Android API 26 Helped Isa create Google Play Store page for Tor Browser for Android Helped Steph and Isa with blog post This week: Restart Gecko after first-run - #27611 Begin looking at Tor's new embedding API Discussing future plans/roadmap for next alpha release Look at rust code for proxy safety TBA private tabs - #24920 sisbell: Last week: - Completed #27438 - Android Gradle Build Downloads - Source Code: https://github.com/sisbell/artc - Crate: https://crates.io/crates/artc This Week: - Integrate and test rust program output (from #27438) with RBM build for android-toolchain - Respond to comments regarding open issues for android RBM build igt0: Last Week: - Struggled a bit with the #26690 (padlock for tba), sending a patch today - Started to implement the Tor Circuit Display - Helped out a bit with the TBA release This Week: - Finish the padlock #26690 - Have the Tor Circuit Display UI for Android done - Start to refactor tor button to separate the UI and logic pospeselr: Last Week: - fix for #26381 (broken about:tor on Windows with sandboxing) - review needed! (mcs/brade: can you take a look?) mcs: Yes, we will take a look. - cleaned up patch for #26450 (pdfjs range requests on default circuit) This Week: - put up patch for #26450 using the 'smuggled' first-party domain technique discussed in ticket - begin investigation for #3600 (prevent redirects from transmitting cookies) wayward: User Advocate role - getting started Last week: - created new user feedback tracking doc (https://storm.torproject.org/shared/JwsANJ37_QYZnGa9SCTVIGSjCAWm43Tyd_d3cJe…) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/UserIssuesResearch This week: - establish contact with applications team (would a weekly/monthly email update be too annoying?) (GeKo: We had a weekly mail to tor-project and I think we could keep that format for the time being) - other places to find feedback, besides reddit, stack exchange, blog posts, and IRC? (twitter? mastodon? any ideas welcome) - what info to gather for bug investigations and feedback reports - will set up a monthly mailing list with user feedback - figure out some place/way to organize user feedback by importance - perhaps on trac, or a wiki page? arthuredelstein: Last week: - Patch for #27290 (now investigating more for possible revision) - Opened #27476 (Remove gap between Tor Launcher window and main browser window) - Revised #27097 - Looked more at NoScript/torbutton communication (#27413 et al) - #27268 (pref cleanup, will post soon) This week: - tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-fingerprinting - uplifting FPI permissions patch (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330467) - look more at optimistic socks Georg

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Tails report for August, 2018
by intrigeri 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hi, here's the Tails report for August: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2018_08/ Cheers, -- intrigeri

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August 2018 report for the metrics team
by Karsten Loesing 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hello Tor, hello world! Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in August 2018. On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten Moved ExoneraTor to its own webpage on Tor Metrics [1] in an effort to bundle all user-facing metrics-related content and services on the Tor Metrics website. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html Released ExoneraTor 3.0.0 [2] which prepared moving the service to Tor Metrics and 3.0.1 [3] which fixed links to nearby IP addresses. [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-August/015885.html [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-August/016003.html Modified per-graph CSV files available on Tor Metrics [4, 5] in preparation of deprecating and removing pre-aggregated CSV files after September 15 [6]. [4] https://metrics.torproject.org/stats.html [5] https://bugs.torproject.org/26998 [6] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-July/013371.html Released four Onionoo versions: 6.2-1.16.0 [7] which adds parameters and fields around AS numbers and names, 6.2-1.16.1 [8] which fixes an error in the serialization of history documents, 6.2-1.17.0 which fixes errors with the searching for relays with unknown AS numbers, and 6.2-1.17.1 [9] which fixes issues with slow reverse DNS lookups. [7] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-August/013384.html [8] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-August/013390.html [9] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-August/013392.html Handled an issue with CollecTor instances not syncing properly, which led to a data loss of one day. Fortunately, we were able to recover the missing data [10]. [10] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-August/015850.html Removed the "Fraction of relays reporting onion-service statistics" graph [11] after including its data in existing per-graph CSV files. [11] https://bugs.torproject.org/26950 Cleaned up and gently refactored all five major metrics codebases based on static code analysis [12]. [12] https://bugs.torproject.org/27234

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Notes from network-team meeting, 10 Sep 2018
by David Goulet 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hello! (I ran the meeting for nickm this week.) Our meeting logs are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-09-10-16.59.txt Our pad: --- = Network team meeting pad! = Welcome to our meeting! Mondays at 1700 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC. (This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) Want to participate? Awesome! Here's what to do: 1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name. 2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put them in boldface! 3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi! Note the meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC! (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.ht… for background.) After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to tor-project @ lists.torproject.org. After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week. == Previous notes == 11 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001828.html 18 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001835.html 25 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001863.html 2 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001866.html 9 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001884.html 16 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001888.html 23 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001926.html 30 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001928.html 6 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001936.html 13 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001947.html 20 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001954.html 27 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001963.html 4 Sep: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-September/001965.ht… == Stuff to do every week = * Let's check and update the roadmap. What's done, and what's coming up? url to roadmap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Check reviewer assignments at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet! Are there important documents we should link to? Things we should archive? * Check rotations at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRot… * Community guides, it's time to hand off to the next guide! * Let's look at proposed tickets! [but see discussion] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… == Reminders == * Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily. * Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week. * Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing work for the next releases ------------------------------- ---- 10 September 2018 ------------------------------- == Announcements == == Discussion == == Updates == Nick: * Last week: * Merged OSS-Fuzz corpus into tor-fuzzing-corpora * Revised and merged complicated branches, including NSS * Handled fallout from NSS merge. whoops * Reviewed and merged v3 client auth (kudos to all who worked on it!) * Worked towards stable releases * Worked on getting clients not to need a cached_dir_t * This week * Stable releases (monday) * Fix OSS-Fuzz build * revise whitepaper * Start my prep for the mexico city meeting * Review and merge lots of stuff * Maybe, work on getting networkstatus to be mmaped. * Prep for feature freeze on friday: Lots of review and merge. * Post-freeze 0.3.5 ticket triage teor (offline): last week (from Tuesday): - I was on CI / Coverity rotation - Fixed some failures in chutney due to 0.3.4 changes (#27146 and children) - I tried some other fixes, but they turned out worse than before the fix - Emailed Travis CI again to fix startup hangs and network failures (#27366) - Fixed Windows/GCC 8 CI (#27389 and children) - Coverity found some issues in the new HSv3 client auth code - I didn't get a chance to look at Jenkins, is it ok? - Final 0.3.4 ticket triage - Bwauth work (#27398) - Other fast fixes, reviews, and ticket triage - Travel and expense admin this week: - Reviews! (I didn't do many reviews last week, due to 0.3.4) - Maybe we should run the latest GCC and clang in CI? - Create an updated list of fallback directory mirrors (#24786) - Catch up on meeting planning - If nothing more urgent comes up, back to PrivCount ahf: Last week: Sponsor 8: - Cleanup of #25502 code, test on Windows. - Looked at Nick's TLS work with NSS. Misc: - Reviewed #27315 and #17837. This week: Sponsor 8: - Get #25502 reviewed and in. - Work on things that shows up because of it or other pre-freeze tasks. Misc: - Maybe help asn with the HS proxy circuit identifier code if there is time (#4700). - CI/Coverity role. - Do an interview on a Ukrainian podcast about Tor. asn: [Might be offline during this meeting due to personal stuff.] Last week: - Helped out with the client auth stuff which is now merged. Did some testing of the feature, addressed some review feedback, found and fixed some bugs. - Discussed "onion services open issues" document with people. - Reviewed #26769, #27344. - Started a [tor-dev] thread about the state of the HA proxy patch #4700. This week: - Work on any other pre-freeze items. I took over #4700 from ahf; let's see if I can make it happen before the freeze. - Fix any other stuff that come up from the HS client auth work. - Do reviews. catalyst: last week (2018-W36): - fought with a sticky failure in Travis probably caused by caching - are the Travis performance gains from caching worth the headaches from sticky failures? - cleaned up #27402 work somewhat this week (2018-W37): - clean up and make pull request for #27402 - work on #27100 and #27103 haxxpop: Last week: - Worked on client auth. - Refactor some code on client auth. This week: - Fix bugs if we find in client auth dgoulet: Last week: * Worked on #20700 (hs v3 client authorization). Now merged upstream. The credit needs to go to haxxpop here so congrats! :) * Opened #27544 for the things to fix/work about #20700 post-merge. * Some NSS testing I did on my test relays. Couple fixes from nickm came out of it. This week: * Rush all things that needs to go in before the 035 freeze. Mike: Last week: - Worked nostly on non-core things (TBB 8 crash; investigating a mobile issue; vanguards README_SECURITY updates). This week: - Figure out how dirconns link to edge conns? (Does anyone understand this code?) [dgoulet: I would say Roger has been of great help in the past there for me :)] --- Cheers! David -- hCUSKfQhMOyOuV6tih13519RH3ZKS4Hc3o/XxZHHwZY=

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August 2018 report for the Tor Browser team
by Georg Koppen 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hi all! In August we released our second alpha Tor Browser based on Firefox 60 ESR, 8.0a10[1], fixing a number of bugs and adding more features to make Tor Browser compatible with this new major Firefox version. It ships the first Tor release candidate, as well, 0.3.4.6-rc. Part of our onboarding[2] and our new about:tor page[3] landed in this alpha, too. Besides this release we finished our feature and network code reviews (the trac tickets still need to get updated for that, though) and mainly worked on implementing the remaining bits of our onboarding experience and streamlining the Tor Browser 8 experience. On mobile we finished the remaining items for our first alpha release but were still not able to get Tor Browser for Android 1.0a1 out this month. However, we made progress on integrating the mobile build process into our reproducible builds setup. First patches are up for review and are getting polished up for final inclusion in the repository.[4] The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in August is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201808` keyword in our bug tracker.[5] It's been 79 tickets this time! For September we had planned to get our new releases out which we actually did in the first week: Tor Browser 8.0, 8.5a1, and 1.0a1 (for mobile) went live! We now plan to collect all the feedback we get and start working on the most important issues. For Tor Browser 8 we have the `tbb-8.0-issues` keyword, which gives an overview over reported problems and bugs which are on our radar.[6] We plan to address as much as we can of them in an upcoming 8.0.1 release. Moreover, we plan to hammer down our next steps for our work on Tor Browser for Android. Orbot integration and Pluggable Transport support, as two of the most important improvements, are on our roadmap but there is more, like reproducible builds, that need to get coordinated.[7] All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201809` keyword in our bug tracker.[8] Georg [1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80a10 [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26961 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26960 [4] See: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26693 and child tickets [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~TorB… [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… [7] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-September/000906.html [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig…

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OONI Monthly Report: August 2018
by Maria Xynou 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hello Tor world, In August 2018, the OONI team published two research reports examining internet censorship in Venezuela and South Sudan. We also supported Zimbabwean communities monitoring censorship events during the 2018 general elections, wrapped up our UX research, created a prototype Android app for OONI Probe, improved the monitoring of our services and started research for semi-automated blockpage detection. Many OONI team members participated in outreach activities, presenting OONI at the Italian Hacker Camp, Oxford University, FOCI, Geek-Picnic and at Chaos Constructions. ## Report on internet censorship in South Sudan In collaboration with our South Sudan partner, The Advocates for Human Rights and Democracy (TAHURID), we published a joint research report examining censorship events in South Sudan. Our report, "South Sudan: Measuring Internet Censorship in the World's Youngest Nation", is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/south-sudan-censorship/ ## Report on internet censorship in Venezuela In collaboration with our Venezuelan partners, IPYS Venezuela and Venezuela Inteligente, we published a joint research report examining recent censorship events in Venezuela. Our report, "The State of Internet Censorship in Venezuela", is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/venezuela-internet-censorship/ ## UX research We wrapped up our UX research in August. As part of our work on revamping the OONI Probe mobile apps, we interviewed a number of community members to collect their feedback. We also analyzed the information submitted via our survey (https://ooniuxteam.typeform.com/to/a1P0cn & https://storm.torproject.org/shared/VpAFK13fdAozTGTolFd2EsT1CkLY8-YlBLbRERy…) We are now in the process of determining the next steps (in terms of which new features to prioritize on) for the revamp of the OONI Probe mobile apps based on the analysis of information provided via surveys and interviews. ## New Android prototype app for OONI Probe We now have a new prototype Android app for OONI Probe! The Android app includes the Test Results details screen. The UI of all screens have roughly been implemented and will be further iterated, polished and improved upon based on designer feedback. The app can run tests and store them in the database using the old Measurement Kit (MK) API. The iOS app codebase has been changed to reflect many new improvements in the Android app, such as Gson-like classes and more custom objects, instead of using dictionaries and arrays. Furthermore, we have started the implementation of the new MK API and we're planning to complete it soon. ## Improvements to the monitoring of OONI services As our infrastructure and user base grows, improving the monitoring of our infrastructure is essential to serving our users more effectively. Significant progress on this front was done during August 2018. The following ticket lists all of the issues that we identified and tracks improvements to the monitoring of our infrastructure: https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/issues/226 The changes carried out in August include changing all the webserver configurations of OONI machines and a number of manual tasks. ## Research on semi-automated blockpage and blockserver detection Currently the OONI pipeline relies on the manual markup of blockpages. In August we started doing some research on automating the process of identifying and marking blockpages. ## Provided feedback to the Tor network team on using tor in a library-like way on mobile We collaborated with the Tor network team on testing and providing feedback to the changes they made to make it easier to integrate tor into mobile platforms. As part of that we wrote a basic test suite to check if the Tor integration was working properly and reported the bugs we found. See: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26948 For more context on this, see the following master trac ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25510 ## Updated test list We carried out some research (https://ooni.torproject.org/get-involved/contribute-test-lists/#test-list-r…) to (further) update the Eritrean test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/382 ## Community use of OONI data ### Report on blocking of election watchdog website in Zimbabwe We supported Zimbabwean communities on the investigation of censorship events during the 2018 general elections. Our Zimbabwean partners and friends - Digital Society of Zimbabwe, MISA Zimbabwe and Koliwe Majama - published a report on the blocking of zimelection.com by state-owned TelOne. Their report is available via the following links: http://www.dszim.org/2018/08/10/zimbabwean-election-website-blocked-followi… https://koliwemajama.co.zw/zimbabwean-election-website-blocked-following-20… https://www.apc.org/en/blog/zimbabwe-2018-general-elections-website-blocked ## Community activities ### OONI presentation at the Italian Hacker Camp OONI's Simone traveled to Padua to present OONI at the Italian Hacker Camp (IHC) on 3rd August 2018. Information about his talk, titled "An update on internet censorship", is available here: https://www.ihc.camp/event/italian-hacker-camp-2018-08-02-2018-08-05-1/trac… ### OONI lecture at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute OONI's Maria traveled to Oxford to present OONI at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute on 6th August 2018. As part of her lecture, she explained OONI's methodologies and how researchers, journalists, policy makers and advocates can use OONI data as part of their work. Information about the event is available here: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/news/annenberg-oxford-media-policy-summer-inst… ### OONI keynote at FOCI OONI's Arturo and Simone traveled to Baltimore to present OONI at FOCI on 14th August 2018: https://slides.ooni.io/2018/foci/. Information about their keynote, titled "Growing the Open Observatory of Network Interference", is available here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci18/workshop-program Arturo previously presented OONI at FOCI back in 2012, when the project was in its infancy. As part of this presentation, Arturo and Simone provided an update on what OONI has accomplished over the last six years, what are some of the challenges and what OONI's building next! ### OONI presentations in Russia OONI's Leonid gave talks at two events in Russia: 1. Geek-Picnic (https://geek-picnic.me/saint-petersburg) on 18th August 2018. Slides: https://slides.ooni.io/2018/geekpicnic/ 2. Chaos Constructions (https://chaosconstructions.ru/) on 25th August 2018. Slides: https://slides.ooni.io/2018/cc/ As part of his talks, Leonid presented OONI and censorship findings. ## Userbase In August 2018, OONI Probe was run 241,772 times from 4,483 different vantage points in 210 countries around the world. This information can also be found through our stats: https://api.ooni.io/stats ~ The OONI team. -- Maria Xynou Research & Partnerships Director Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) https://ooni.torproject.org/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E

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Notes from September 6 2018 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

Notes for September 6 2018 meeting: Nick: 1) I'm supposed to be doing the volunteer valuations again. I need to know how many donated hosts we have. 2) I need a group created for distributing SBWS code. See question on #26849. 3) 9 days left till 0.3.5 feature freeze. 0.3.5 will be an LTS release. 4) Some sponsor8 items will likely be left over and go into 0.3.6. If there are mobility-API requests, we need to know ASAP, as planned. 5) 0.3.4-stable is delayed while we chase various stability bugs; most only affect testing networks, but we want to be absolutely sure. 6) Georg: did you make that ticket to remember about OSS-Fuzz? (Georg: Yes, #27462) (Cool; thanks! -Nick) Sue: 1) Working on Audit - auditors are in next week. I am in Seattle next week. 2) New Hires start next week - both Bookkeeper and Grants Manager Georg: 1) Tor Browser 8 is out. \o/ It's been the most complicated release so far and as it stands we are doing not that bad. The plan is to collect issues, address the most pressing ones this week and next week and then get a 8.0.1 out (including the Tor News link). 2) Tor Browser for Mobile is live on Google Play \o/ We are in the process of doing the website update and offering the .apk on our own website. (Arturo: What is the plan regarding removing/dropping OrFox from the market? OrFox is labeled as "Orfox: Tor Browser for Android", while the other is "Tor Browser for Android (Alpha)". I can imagine this creating some confusion for users). (GeKo: We have #27399 so far, the details are tbd, though. Arturo: thanks.) Alison 1) Community team and meeting planners are doing lots of Mexico City things like organizing the agenda, wiki, safety info (earthquakes!), open days planning, and so on. The blog post about the open days should be going out today or tomorrow or soon! 2) Library Freedom Institute is still the bulk of what I'm working on. This week we're writing up some documentation about talking to legislators about privacy and doing FOIA/public records requests in libraries. I'm also writing up the remainder of the curriculum for the year and also finished a press release about our new funding. 3) I met with Maggie, our new Moz Fellow, to get her onboarded with user advocate tasks. She will attend the next applications team and UX team meetings to introduce herself and get feedback about working collaboratively with these teams. 4) Tracking down the remaining updates that need to happen for the TB8 manual. It looks like the changes just need to be pushed from alpha to main, and some of the languages do not have up to date screenshots? GeKo is this right? (GeKo: My gut feeling says, "yes", but I have not looked at the actual work that got done) Karsten: 1) Rebased and tested an ExoneraTor patch from 2 years ago that has the potential of reducing database size from 270 GB to under 80 GB and query response times to a few seconds regardless of query parameters. 2) Prepared the Onionoo 7.0 release which is going to come out next week. Arturo: 1) Catching up with backlog after 2 week vacation 2) Leonid gave two presentation in Russia about "Russia disconnecting itself from the internet": Chaos Constructions (https://chaosconstructions.ru/) on 25th August 2018. Slides: https://slides.ooni.io/2018/cc/ (note slides are in Russian) & Geek-Picnic (https://geek-picnic.me/saint-petersburg) on 18th August 2018 3) Made considerable progress on OONI Explorer measurement pages: https://github.com/ooni/explorer/pull/16 4) Made several improvements to the monitoring of OONI services and documented the next steps for that: https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/issues/226 5) Updated the JO test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/388 & NG test list: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/387 6) Determining the next steps for the revamp of the OONI Probe mobile apps now that our usability study has wrapped up (we have completed the interviews and analyzed the information submitted via surveys) isabela: 1) Dealing with the 'no isa in mexico' situation 2) helping teams with the tb8 release and tba alpha \o/ so happy they are out this week 3) working on reports 4) syncs with DRL 5) working on onboarding and preparing for Seattle next week 6) need to get the job post for anti-censorship team out and review the situation about selecting sysadmin candidates Shari: 1) DRL rejected both of our proposals (modularization and Tor browser updates). Gonna try to get a new SOI done by September 14 for the browser. 2) Interviewing grant writers this week. Hope to find one soon! 3) Everyone's coming to town next week. (Okay, not everyone, but lots of people.) Going to talk about grants management and audit. Onboarding a couple of new people. 4) Working with The Berkeley Group. Going back and forth on their MOU. 5) Catching up on lots of things after being out of the office for nearly two weeks. (Norway is gorgeous. Highly recommended!) Sarah: 1) Grants - interviewing grant writers and researching new private foundation funding in addition to updating info in GrantHub. 2) Updating Tor's listing on GuideStar. 3) Working with state registration consultant. 4) Writing to some donors we haven't heard from in a while and who don't receive the newsletter to tell them about the new releases. Steph: 1) tb8: sent press release to several journos, going heavy on social. emma is helping getting some tweets translated 2) open days post coming shortly. thanks to antonela for translating! 3) newsletter going out later today 4) trying to figure out if bitpay is still our best option for accepting bitcoin. Roger: 0) snap conference? snap for tor? 1) Have been spending the past week on the proposal; will spend the next week on it too. With a little distraction going to Seattle next Monday-Tuesday. 2) fake tor browsers on amazon; we passed the links to atagar and to jon and they're hopefully dealing. Mike: 1) Development; development; development

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Tor Browser team meeting notes, 4 Sep 2018
by Georg Koppen 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hi all! Our weekly Tor Browser meeting just finished. The IRC meeting log can be found at http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-09-04-18.00.log… and the items on our pad are listed below: Tuesday September 4, 2018 Discussion: - which sessions do we want at the team meeting day? [GeKo: at least one meeting for the final roadmap and a UX/Tor Browser sync; we'll use two more slots with topics to be done] mcs and brade: Last week: - Code reviews. - #26048 (potentially confusing "restart to update" message in ESR60). - #26049 (consider reducing the delay before the update prompt is displayed). - #27214 (Update descriptions for onboarding). - #27301 (TB8.0a10 about:tor UI Bugs). - #27348 (Tor Browser 8 onboarding UI bugs). - #27403 (The onboarding bubble does not show up). - Helped hiro with debugging Moat in Tor Launcher. This week or soon: - Note: Kathy and Mark will be out of the office this Thursday and Friday (September 6 and 7). - Use staged MAR files to test Tor Browser 7.5.6 to 8.0 updates. - Complete month-end administrative tasks. - Follow up on remaining updater and onboarding issues for Tor Browser 8.x. - Review our notes from #22074 (undocumented bugs since FF52esr) and file additional tickets if necessary. - Do some testing for #26251 (Adapt macOS snowflake compilation to new toolchain). arthuredelstein: Last week: - Worked on #26520 and #27401 (security slider/noscript problems) - Worked on #27403 (The onboarding bubble does not show up in the release candidate) - Wrote patch for #26561 (onion images not displayed) - Wrote patch for #26670 (make canvas permission respect fpi) - Worked on alternative patch for #27097 (Add "Tor News" signup newsletter link) This week: - #27097 Newsletter banner - #27290 WebGL is broken in Tor Browser 8 - #27413 (Implement better communication between NoScript and Tor Browser) - uplifting FPI permissions patch (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330467) - more anti-fingerprinting work - pref cleanup: (#27268) - #25555 (Optimistic SOCKS) sisbell: Last Week: Split commits for Android RBM Build: #27441 #26696 #26697 #27440 #27439 #27443 Worked on #27438 - android artifacts downloading outside of RBM. Created rust program for downloading and verifying android artifacts This week: Work related to #27438 - import of gpg keys into keystore and command line interface for library- - push source code Reviews of commits igt0: Last Week: - Finish the about:tor (#27111) - Updating the mobile code to support the new padlock (#26690) - Tested TBA in different devices(mobile and table) This week: - Finish #26690 - Start the development of the circuit display for android(UI side) boklm: Last week: - helped build the new releases - made patches related to watershed update (#26570, #26411, #27182, #27183) - started looking at #27408 (Make it possible to find which tor-browser-build.git commit was used to build a nightly) - worked on #26149 (Add some ansible roles for tor browser testsuite setup), which is almost done This week: - help with getting the releases published - try to finally get the testsuite running on nightly builds (#26149) - start reviewing some of the android tor-browser-build patches - will be afk this Thursday, until Friday morning next week GeKo: Last week: -Tails summit -release preparations -finished network code audit; I think we are good but the rust part was painful; might be worth having a second opinion about it This week: -help with getting releases out -deal with release fallout -create a new gpg subkey -writing up my network review notes on the trac ticket and finally close it -begin-of-the-month admin stuff -sysrqb/igt0/sisbell: should we meet after this meeting to discuss tba stuff? (provide anto is around, too) [GeKo: we decided to create a pad for the possible topics to talk about and postpone the meeting after the first alpha is finally out] pospeselr: Last week: - #26381 investigations (about:tor page does not load on first start on Windows) - implemented an improved trace logger This week: - #26381 investigations Bob Owen got back to me in the filed bug on Firefox Bugzilla (#1485836) Confirms that the cause (though not the root cause) seems to be content processes spinning up before the sandboxing policies have been set up properly So the question is what's causing the content processes to launch sooner in the failing case? (about:tor?) sysrqb: Last week: Nearly released the first TBA alpha, after two attempts Investigated why the APK was built with debugging enabled Began investigating backporting the necessary patches for using Android SDK API version 26 This week: Finish backporting patches for API 26 Release first TBA alpha Georg

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Notes from network-team meeting, 4 Sep 2018
by Nick Mathewson 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hi! Our meeting logs are at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-09-04-16.59.html Below are the contents of this meeting's pad. = Network team meeting pad! = Welcome to our meeting! Mondays at 1700 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC. This week we're meeting on Tuesday 4 September, because Monday 3 September is a US holiday. (This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) Want to participate? Awesome! Here's what to do: 1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name. 2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put them in boldface! 3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi! Note the meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC! (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.ht… for background.) After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to tor-project @ lists.torproject.org. After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week. == Previous notes == 11 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001828.html 18 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001835.html 25 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001863.html 2 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001866.html 9 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001884.html 16 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001888.html 23 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001926.html 30 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001928.html 6 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001936.html 13 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001947.html 20 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001954.html 27 Aug: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-August/001963.html == Stuff to do every week = * Let's check and update the roadmap. What's done, and what's coming up? url to roadmap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Check reviewer assignments at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet! Are there important documents we should link to? Things we should archive? * Check rotations at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRot… * Community guides, it's time to hand off to the next guide! * Let's look at proposed tickets! [but see discussion] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… == Reminders == * Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily. * Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week. * Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing work for the next releases ------------------------------- ---- 4 September 2018 ------------------------------- == Announcements == == Discussion == (teor: I put some CI questions here. But let's talk about CI at the Tor Meeting in a few weeks time.) teor: We have some very productive volunteers. How can we balance reviewing their code, and our other tasks? Here's what I think we can do: * run their code on CI before reviewing * ask them to open pull requests on GitHub, or push their branches ourselves * ask them to write unit tests * let them know that some reviews will be delayed until mid-September * ask them to review each others' code? == Updates == Nick: Last week: * Drafted a sidechannels-and-datagrams whitepaper; got fast feedback from Mike * Backend for memory reduction via more efficient family storage * Tracked down a memory leak in my NSS code. (This took way more time than you'd think.) * Made new rotations. * Reviewed and merged a bunch of stuff. * Released 0.3.4. This week: * Revise and expand sidechannels-and-datagrams whitepaper. * Further revisions to NSS code TBD * more memory hacking as needed * more review, possibly even on non-sponsored stuff, time permitting. * Start working on next stable releases. * More tests for TLS code? * Revise code based on reviews teor (offline): last week (+ Monday this week): - Worked on fixing failures in chutney due to 0.3.4 changes (#27146 and children) - Reviewed the fixes to the vanguards patch (#25573) - Bwauth work (#27107, #27341, #27398) - Emailed Travis CI to fix startup hangs and network failures (#27366) - Reviewed some UTF-8 patches (#27367) - Windows CI is broken (#27389) - Other fast fixes, reviews, and ticket triage - Helped purge old trac admin accounts this week: 0.3.4: - Get chuntney working in mixed 0.3.3/0.3.4 networks (#27146) - maybe we should run chutney in travis CI? (#20647) - our macOS time API seems to return weird results on i386 (#26987) - Create an updated list of fallback directory mirrors (#24786) 0.3.5: - bwauth work (#27135) dgoulet: Last week: - HS ticket triage and work on some. - Finalized for upstream merge #20700. nickm: This is rather large... if you want, you can defer this to me and asn for upstream merge? (no, I'm cool with it -nick) - Started working on #27359 using nickm's backend code. - Bad relays activity was high last week so spent some time there. This week: - Finalize #27359. - Hunt around for tickets needed to be completed pre-freeze. catalyst: last week (2018-W35): - proof of concept of deferring directory bootstrap status (#22266) this week (2018-W36): - community guide rotation - clean up #22266 work a little (mostly improving tests) - add connection tracking abstraction for bootstrap reporting (#22266) - make some progress on #25502 (PT progress in bootstrap reporting) ahf, i left a rough sketch of an incremental piece i plan to work on in a comment at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27100#comment:2 ahf: Last week: Sponsor 8: - Looked at Nick's NSS RSA and TLS code (#26819). Wrapped my head arouns the NSS API's. - Looked shortly at #27255 (mmap of cached consensus), gonna postpone that until my other S8 tasks are done (#25502). - Back to #25502 (PT bootstrap error handling) Misc: - Looked at Marionette status. - Got through my review queue from before vacation (#24104, #17873, and #24204) - Some discussion about DEFCON badges with Steph. This week: Sponsor 8: - Follow up on NSS-TLS reviews. - Focus on #25502. Misc: - Bug triage role. asn: Last week: - Wrote a draft of the "onion services open issues" blog post based on Mike's README_SECURITY document. Circulated it to David and Mike. We need some more thinking on the right way to publish it, so that it does not sound alarmist but still informs people of the open issues with onion services. - Review #26818. - Tested onionshare's onion v3 support. - Updated v3 wiki page to bring it more up to date. - Started debug on another HSv3 descriptor upload fail (the only one around atm): #27436 This week: - Think more of the way we should publish the "onion services open issues" blog post. Talk more with Steph, David and other people who might have feedback. - Do reviews. - Help with open v3 issues Mike: Last week: - Updated #25573 based on review, made a merge branch on master. - Reviewed #27241; have some questions there - Vanguards bug fixes + v0.2.2 release - Reviewed asn's onion services post; updated README_SECURITY - Reviewed and commented on Nick's side channels paper - Replied to teor's sbws tor-dev thread. - Failed at CI; really hate digging through jenkins. Kept putting it off until it was too late :/ This week: - WTF-PAD/Sponsor2 work

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