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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2025-03-13
by onyinyang 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2025/tor-meeting.2025-03-13-16.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, March 20 16:00 UTC Facilitator: shelikhoo ^^^(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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Haidi February '25 Report
by Haidi 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Hi! Below is my February’25 (Period: 2025-02-01 - 2025-02-28) report! In February, I began working on tests and documentation, focusing on integrating pluggable transports with little-t-tor on Windows. I then collected data across different operating systems and contributed to the corresponding GitLab documentation ticket. Spent some time learning the workflow for merging and committing documents in GitLab for the Tor Project. *Add documentation about using pluggable … [View More]

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minutes from the sysadmins
by Antoine Beaupré 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hi, We had a quick monthly meeting, here are the minutes. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies anarcat, groente, lavamind, lelutin and zen. lavamind and groente star. Tails pipelines are failing because of issues with the debian APT servers, zen and groente will look into it. # Checkin 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%… [View More]

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Felicia's Monthly Status Report, February 2025
by Priscila 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hi everyone, This is my status report for February 2025. It’s a list of all tasks I’ve been involved in/responsible for. ## Design tasks 1. Review error prompt shown when Tor exits: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43186 2. Warn users about Connection Assist removing user-added bridges: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42546 3. Improvements to the “Use bridges” toggle in Connection settings: https://gitlab.… [View More]

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GitLab Account Request for GSoC Contribution
by harshita roonwal 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hello Tor Project Team, I am interested in contributing to the Tor Project as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. Specifically, I want to work on the Relay to Relay Connectivity in the Tor Network project. To do so, I need access to GitLab for: - Reviewing and discussing project issues. - Contributing code and submitting merge requests. - Communicating with mentors and other contributors. Here are my details: - Name: Harshita Roonwal - Preferred Username: harshita_r … [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2025-03-06
by meskio 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2025/tor-meeting.2025-03-06-16.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday,March 11 16:00 UTC Facilitator: onyinyang ^^^(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: meskio == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about … [View More]

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ebanam's monthly report and user support report for February 2025
by ebanam 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Hello everyone, Most of my work last month focussed on helping users in regions where Tor is censored, which includes helping users with instructions to download Tor Browser binaries from GetTor and/or official mirrors, verifying Tor Browser's GPG signature, help with using censorship circumvention methods that works best for them and overall troubleshooting. I wrote some documentation[0] about the emergency downgrade for Tor Browser on macOS resulting from the Tor Browser bug#43468[1] and … [View More]worked on a number of tasks before and after the merge cdr.link instances(ticketing system for our WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram support channels)[2]. Following is a more detailed report about the tickets our user support team worked on last month. # Frontdesk (email user support channel) * 535(↓) RT tickets created * 574(↓) RT tickets resolved Tickets by topics and numbers: 1. 326(↓) RT tickets: instructions to circumvent censorship for Chinese speaking users. 2. 106(↓) RT tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 3. 16(↑) RT tickets: help with troubleshooting existing Tor Browser install on Desktop (Windows, macOS and Linux). 4. 5(↑) tickets: bug on Tor Browser for macOS "ScreenCaptureKit framework should be a weak link" (the issue is resolved with Tor Browser 14.0.6)[1]. 5. 4(↓) RT tickets: WebTunnel bridges campaign. 6. 4(↑) RT tickets: reports of a fake apps on iOS AppStore masquerading as official Tor Browser. 7. 3(↓) RT tickets: questions about how Tor works - is my IP visible when using Tor? what application level protections I get when using Tor Browser? what are 'Security Levels' in the Tor Browser etc. 8. 3(↓) RT tickets: questions about setting up a bridge relay or snowflake proxy. 9. 2(-) RT tickets: help with troubleshooting Tor Browser Android. 10. 2(↑) RT tickets: help with instructions to use bridges with Tails. 11. 2(↑) RT tickets: users seeing a "proxy refused" error when visiting websites on Tor Browser[3] 12. 2(↑) RT tickets: issues with Ubuntu packages on deb.torproject.org and its Onion Service[4]. 13. 1(↓) RT ticket: reports of websites blocking Tor connections. 14. 1(↓) RT ticket: help with instructions to verify Tor Browser's GPG signature. 15. 1(↓) RT ticket: questions about how one can contribute to Tor - code, documentation, localization, etc. 16. 1(↑) RT ticket: Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) (i.e. YubiKey) support is disabled in Tor Browser[5]. 17. 1(-) RT ticket: instructions to download Tor Browser 13.5 legacy for legacy operating systems. 18. 1(↑) RT ticket: Windows' built-in on-screen keyboard not working with Tor Browser[6]. 19. 1(↑) RT ticket: video rendering issues on Youtube due to blocking of canvas fingerpriting on Tor Browser[7]. 20. 1(↑) RT ticket: "New Identity" feature not available on Tor Browser for Android[8]. 21. 1(↑) RT ticket: static Captcha when requesting bridges in Tor Browser[9]. 22. 1(↓) RT ticket: reports of anti-virus software blocking Tor Browser. 23. 1(↑) RT ticket: issue with signing up for Tor Weather. 24. 1(↓) RT ticket: question about onion services and how to access them. # Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal user support channels * 671(↓) tickets resolved Breakdown: * 653(↓) tickets on Telegram * 14(↓) tickets on WhatsApp * 4(↑) tickets on Signal Tickets by topics and numbers: 1. 365(↓) tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 2. 28(↓) tickets: instructions to circumvent censorship for Chinese speaking users. 3. 16(↑) tickets: help with troubleshooting Tor Browser Desktop on Windows, macOS and Linux. 4. 12(↓) tickets: helping users on iOS, using Onion Browser or Orbot, to use censorship circumvention methods. 5. 6(↑) tickets: help with troubleshooting Tor Browser Android. 6. 5(↑) tickets: help with using bridges and snowflake with little-t-tor. 7. 5(↑) tickets: help with instructions to use bridges with Tails. 8. 4(↑) tickets: instructions on how to get Tor Browser binaries from GetTor. 9. 3(↓) tickets: questions about onion services and how to access them. 10. 1(↑) ticket: bug on Tor Browser for macOS "ScreenCaptureKit framework should be a weak link" (the issue is resolved with Tor Browser 14.0.6). 11. 1(↑) ticket: issues with Ubuntu packages on deb.torproject.org and its Onion Service. 12. 1(↓) ticket: users seeing a "proxy refused" error when visiting websites on Tor Browser for Android using Samsung devices. # Highlights from the Tor Forum 1. Download Tor Browser 13.5 legacy on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 and macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14[10]. 2. "New Identity" and canvas fingerprinting protections in Tor Browser[11]. 3. Tor Browser crashes on Windows 11.[12] 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. best, e. [0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40183 [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43468 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40181 [3]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42714 [4]: https://status.torproject.org/issues/2025-02-25-ubuntu-packages/ [5]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/34193 [6]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40794 [7]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43482 [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/28800 [9]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/always-the-same-captcha-when-requesting-brig… [10]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/download-tor-browser-13-5-legacy-on-windows-… [11]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/is-new-identity-enough-to-protect-me-as-i-ne… [12]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-launches-and-the-firefox-browser-quits-i… [View Less]

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Nina’s Monthly Status Report, February, 2025
by Nina 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Hi! Below is my February’25 report! In February, I resolved 567 (↓337) tickets: * On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 461 (↓251); * On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 106 (↓85); * On WhatsApp (+447421000612) - 0 (0); * And on Signal (+17787431312) - 0 (0). My main focus in February was helping Russian-speaking users bypass censorship. I shared instructions, gathered user feedback, and helped troubleshoot any issues they were facing with Tor Browser. I also worked on providing feedback … [View More]

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intrigeri's report, February 2025
by intrigeri 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Hi, User-visible ============ - I've prepared the Tails 6.12 release. - I've reviewed and supported the work of my team-mates on a number of high priority user-visible improvements. User-invisible ============== Apart of the usual amount of KTLO work: - I have upgraded AppArmor to 4.1 in Debian in time for the freeze of Trixie. - We've met with a number of stakeholders to figure out the strategy for Tails comms this year, and how we're going to transition the existing … [View More]

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, February 2025
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Hi everyone, Here is my status report for February 2025. At the beginning of the month, I worked on releasing 14.0.5 and 13.5.12. I prepared them, and after we built them, I also signed them. I also took some time to repurpose an old computer for this task to run it in an environment completely isolated from my usual developer machine. However, Tor Browser 14.0.5 had a problem [tor-browser#43468] and crashed on older macOS versions because of an upstream WebRTC update. For some reason, … [View More]Firefox and Mullvad Browser were not affected. So, I investigated to find the cause of the problem and created a patch, both for us and for Firefox [Bug 1946501]. After that, I went back to work on uplifts. The first was Bug 1923260 [Bug 1923260], a patch initially sent to us by a contributor. Upstream asked for some changes, but I had to verify them, and it has been a while since I made some C++ changes to Firefox specific to Android that needed to be debugged first. While waiting for the letterboxing improvements to land, I started checking a problem with the initial size of Firefox windows when system scaling is enabled [tor-browser#43205]. Eventually, it was a platform-specific problem 😭. On Windows, some intermediate rounding (spread across several functions) leads to a wrong final window size being passed to the OS API [Bug 1947439]. On Linux, some window sizes are never applied, even when set with external tools such as xdotool. I think the problem is somewhere in the X.org server rather than being a response from Firefox. So, I decided to write a workaround at a higher level since fixing the actual causes would have been much longer and complicated. Also about screen size, I started a patch [tor-browser!1388] to change how we spoof the sizes of the outer window and of the screen. Currently, we lie about them being the same as the inner window. However, this stands out compared to usual values and sometimes leads to the misdetection of our users as bots. My current patch still needs some changes, so it hasn't been merged, yet. After that, I resumed integration of the Lox crates on Tor Browser. Our initial approach was to use a WASM blob, but we decided to integrate the actual crates for several reasons [tor-browser#43096]. Finally, I resumed the RR rebase effort [tor-browser#43512]: I rebased from Firefox 130 to 131 and from 131 to 132, and I also reviewed Bea's rebase from 129 to 130. Best, Pier [Bug 1923260] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1923260 [tor-browser#43468] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43468 [Bug 1946501] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1946501 [tor-browser#43205] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43205 [Bug 1947439] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1947439 [tor-browser#43096] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43096 [tor-browser!1388] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… [tor-browser#43512] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43512 [View Less]

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