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Tor Dev Meeting in the Baltic States
by Juris - torservers.net 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Hey all, Jens was lately suggesting Jena (Germany) for the next dev meeting. I think it's a good idea to put another place up for discussion. As some of you know, I'm Latvian, so I'm familiar with the Baltic States. First of all, Latvia has a really fast internet (Top10 worldwide (Akamai)) and reasonable prices for food and living. The Latvian capitol Riga has an international airport, but afaik no direct flights to/from the US (one-stop flights only). Riga has a nice old city and it's not … [View More]

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Tor Weekly News -- February 15th, 2016
by TWN 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

======================================================================== Tor Weekly News February 15th, 2016 ======================================================================== After a few-months-long hiatus, we're back with Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what's happening in the Tor community. Contents -------- 1. Tails 2.0 released 2. Tor Browser 5.5.1, 6.0a1, and 6.0a1-hardened released 3. Monthly status reports for … [View More]

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status of bwauths
by Sebastian Hahn 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hi Tom, I hear you may run a bwauth on Debian jessie, is that correct? If so, which version of the code are you using, and are there tricks to make it work? Cheers Sebastian

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IFF Registration Deadline is Today
by Griffin Boyce 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Hello! For those who would like to attend the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, the registration deadline is today. Registering is free, but IFF will stop taking registrations at midnight EST tonight. https://internetfreedomfestival.org/register/ best, Griffin -- “We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.” ~ Andrea Gibson

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GSoC Application
by Damian Johnson 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Bah, seems Google pushed the org application window out a week. Could've sworn it started today, but instead it's 2/8-19. I'll be on vacation 2/5-15 so I might be able to take care of it when I get back but that's cutting it a little close. As mentioned on irc it might be good to have fresh blood take this over. Would anyone care to take over the org admin hat? If not then I'll take care of it when I get back. Cheers! -Damian

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Visiting and speaking at Raboud Universiteit in Nijmegen this week
by isis 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello, I'm at Raboud Universiteit in Nijmegen this week, visiting Peter Schwabe and the ICIS cryptography students. Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk to the students to explain what I work on, mostly to introduce myself so that the students can feel more comfortable talking to "the scary gothy hacker girl" about potential research/projects which they might work on on/for Tor. On Friday, I'm very excited to have the opportunity to meet and have dinner with Joan Daemen (one of the creators of the … [View More]Rijndael alorithm, which is now AES). :D If there's anything I can pass along to folks here, such as project ideas which might be useful to pitch to interested students, or cryptography questions, please let me know! ----- Forwarded message from Peter Schwabe <peter(a)cryptojedi.org> ----- > From: Peter Schwabe <peter(a)cryptojedi.org> > Subject: Visit and talk by Isis Lovecruft (The Tor project) > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:02:23 +0100 > To: icis-all(a)cs.ru.nl, kerckhoffs-students(a)science.ru.nl, students(a)true-security.nl > Cc: Isis Lovecruft <isis(a)patternsinthevoid.net> > Delivered-To: <isis(a)patternsinthevoid.net> > > Dear all, > > Next week Isis Lovecruft will be visiting our group. I know Isis from > her work for the Tor project; for those of you who don't know her, her > website is https://www.patternsinthevoid.net/. > > Isis will be around the whole week and will be giving a talk on > > Tuesday, February 2, 15:30, in room HG00.068. > > > Title: "Tor Bridges: Hiding Public Resources from Nation-State > Adversaries" > > Abstract: "After a brief overview of Tor and Tor bridges, I'll talk > about how Tor's circuit-level cryptography allows for loose-source > routing and how that can be used to protect Tor bridges from nation > state adversaries seeking to discover their location. Finally, I'll > briefly cover the design for the new Tor bridge distribution system I'm > currently working on which uses anonymous credentials to monitor Tor > bridge users' behaviour, facilitating allowing well-behaved users to > invite people in their social circle into the bridge distribution > system, as well as causing bad actors to be locked out of the system." > > > Looking forward to seeing many of you there. > > > Cheers and have a nice weekend, > > Peter ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt [View Less]

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Meanwhile, at library conferences for coders--
by Kate 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

FYI- -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: c4l Child Care Options - Register Today Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:19:16 UT From: code4lib(a)concentra-cms.com Reply-To: code4lib(a)concentra-cms.com To: ailanthus(a)riseup.net Hello Kate Krauss, If you are planning to use the on site childcare during the 2016 Code4lib conference, you will need to sign up by January 31st. The childcare provider we are working with has asked for ample advanced notice to ensure that we secure the right number of … [View More]

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Yet another work week in mood points
by Karsten Loesing 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello world, three weeks ago I started an experiment on an internal mailing list that I'm now moving to this public mailing list: I wrote down my current task with start and end time together with "mood points" indicating how cheerful I am while working on it. Here's the data format, to give you an example: mood_1_to_5,task,date,from_time,to_time 5,Read emails,2016-01-03,09:05,09:25,misc 5,Submit timesheet,2016-01-03,09:25,09:35,org 5,Backup … [View More]bridge descriptor tarballs,2016-01-03,09:35,09:45,op 3,Write monthly report,2016-01-03,09:45,10:05,org 2,Handle org issue,2016-01-03,13:25,13:55,org ... The reason was that I felt like I'm spending a lot of time on things I don't really enjoy, but I was just not sure if that was my mind tricking me. That's why I started collecting some numbers on it, because data can't lie, right? Here are some results from the third work week of 2016. Fraction of time spent on tasks and average mood points (1 = bad, 5 = fantastic), grouped by task category, ordered by mood points: - 4% of time, 4.0 mood points: Metrics Team - 14% of time, 3.2 mood points: Other, incl. emails and IRC - 81% of time, 3.1 mood points: Software development - 1% of time, 3.0 mood points: Organizational tasks Top 3 tasks by mood points: - 4% of time, 4.0 mood points: Metrics Team meeting - 2% of time, 4.0 mood points: Evaluated last week's mood - 2% of time, 4.0 mood points: Investigate Metrics performance Bottom 3 tasks by mood points: - 9% of time, 3.0 mood points: Metropolitan France is unused (#17786) - 5% of time, 3.0 mood points: Discussed adding CIs to hidserv graphs - 3% of time, 3.0 mood points: Problems with meek user stats Some observations when comparing the last week to the weeks before: I spent even more time on software development (81%) than the in the two weeks before (41% and 69%). The main reason was that I spent incredible 57% of last week on a single development task that is neither in the top 3 nor bottom 3 (57% of time, 3.1 mood points: Metrics website cleanup). I may have ignored a thing or two while doing that. Still, more software development doesn't automatically make me more cheerful. My overall mood went down from 3.3 in the first week and 3.5 in the second week to 3.1 in week three. Maybe I should spend more time on team-related tasks. Or maybe it's the result of having to ignore non-development things while writing code. I'm planning to continue this experiment for a while. Is there anything else that people here measure about their work that I could add? Did people write articles or books about measuring such things? All the best, Karsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWpe+DAAoJEJD5dJfVqbCrWfwH/iRUhYP+IZ6sGqil6JWN+AVZ Fc9E3EBzZdS8JbhPTs0+gObASvzsmucd9iYViccZoToryvx9uLCQilTUlj/Otekp K22IL+FoX9FjPL4Iuzbw0JIFMsP/T8S7Hb4Klh0Im6FDRYz3coR6y/ACKCDCtnR+ SJvqkX3xy3kLHBg2lfa9cOE6jry9ApCJUYpNclXbSz4MucemwH+4jvGtgCjME/cn 16lEqa0UhTtfIw2yUsu1ypMIxTOC4jVhDMRln/rQGM2zS0WCoFADX5ExhyyFKZ4K pG1FQOpfAbeucTf7Alz8qq2SBhdCjygbaiyzvNBRtzrTB5KWDPcFAdihoheKyBQ= =U20a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [View Less]

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Nothing To Hide Documentary
by Juris - torservers.net 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi all, Berlin-based journalists are just running a crowdfunding campaign to finish their documentary about "mass surveillance and its widespread “I have nothing to hide” logic". Speakers: Thomas Drake, Ben Wizner, ... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1587081065/nothing-to-hide-the-documen… They are 1.6k EUR away from their goal and have 18 days left to reach it. Support it, if you like it! Cheers, Juris

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Fwd: TorFlow
by Shari Steele 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Hey all. Does anyone know who is responsible for this? https://torflow.uncharted.software/ It’s pretty cool! Shari

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