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Debian bullseye upgrade of GitLab server expected to cause outages
by Antoine Beaupré 25 May '22

25 May '22

The main GitLab server (`gitlab-02`) will be upgraded on Monday (2022-05-30) at 1700UTC. That is equivalent to 10:00 US/Pacific, 14:00 America/Montevideo, 13:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 UTC, 19:00 Europe/Paris, 2022-05-31 (next day) 05:00 Pacific/Auckland. The upgrade should take about two hours but could extend further during the day if regressions are found. GitLab will be partially unavailable during that time: it may be on and off for extended periods of time and it's better to assume it will be completely unavailable for the day. This is part of the planned Debian bullseye upgrade announced in [TPA-RFC-20][]. The GitLab server is part of the [second batch][] of servers being upgraded. [TPA-RFC-20]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40662 The date was chosen because it is a holiday in the USA and the time was chosen to be near the end of the day in Europe, to minimise the impact on everyone. Feel free to inspect the [upgrade procedure][] for more details. As a special precaution for this server, a full backup will be taken before the upgrade, and filesystem snapshots will be tested to see if they can be used as a recovery. [upgrade procedure]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/bullseye/ Therefore, it is preferable to minimise the use of the server during the day, even if it is available, because it's possible we will have to restore everything from backups, which could wipe data. A warning will be posted on the site during the procedure to warn about this eventuality. This operation will be led by TPA, and feedback is welcome in the [second batch][] ticket. [second batch]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40692 -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-5-19
by meskio 19 May '22

19 May '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-19-15.59.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 26th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == 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 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == == Discussion == * Snowflake doesn't work in Russia (connection failure by timeout) * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * https://ntc.party/t/a-new-snowflake-blocking-rule-offset-of-supported-group… * the new reported blocking rule, with a different offset to supported_groups than what we diagnosed in December 2021 (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) is real * however Snowflake still works in Russia, apparently * Is there a tool to do automated bisection of packet contents and discover such blocking rules? * OONI once had a module called daphn3 * https://github.com/OpenObservatory/ooniprobe-debian/blob/master/ooni/kit/da… * https://speakerdeck.com/hellais/ooni-and-daphn3 * Also Geneva could work for this purpose https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/ * polyanthum got upgraded to bullseye * everything is working except for bridgestrap metrics * Any anti-censorship stands/activities at MCH2022 (https://mch2022.org/)? == 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): last updated 2022-05-19 Last week: - finished setting up networked VMs for conjure development - reviewed some snowflake MRs - emailed conjure people about weird license for required kernel module This week: - continue work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-05-19 Last week: - posted a chart of estimated daily unique Snowflake users https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/analysis/-/issues/… - helped investigate a reported DTLS blocking rule in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… https://ntc.party/t/a-new-snowflake-blocking-rule-offset-of-supported-group… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-co… - analyzed OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-May/000237… Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: arlolra: 2022-04-07 Last week: - Merged the rest of snowflake !81 Next week: - Get to snowflake-webext #10 Evergreen: - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: - meskio: 2022-05-19 Last week: - add a delay to BridgeDB reconnections to rdsys backend (bridgedb!40) - release a new version of snowflake-proxy and obfs4-bridge docker images for multiple archs - fix issues after polyanthum upgrade to bullseye Next week: - rethink distributor retries to the rdsys backend (rdsys#99) - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72) Shelikhoo: 2022-05-19 Last Week: - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) Itchy Onion: 2022-05-12 Last week: - audit s28 PI meeting - work on the snowflake issues assigned to me (!84, !88) - review MRs assigned to me This week: - work on the snowflake issues assigned to me - review MRs assigned to me - work on s28 issue 81 anadahz: 2022-01-27 Last week: - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/mer… HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16 This week: Last/done: Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space Next: Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… re: utls for broker negotiation - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74 - Too busy with work :/ Next week: - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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UX team meeting notes, May 17th
by Duncan Russell 19 May '22

19 May '22

Hello, Thanks to everyone who made it to this week's UX Team meeting. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on May 24th. Here are the minutes: http <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>-15 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…> Today we shared an update on our progress with various projects across the team, discussed the proposal to change Tor Browser for Android’s versioning system, chatted about next week’s East Africa meetup, and shared an update about the Community QA recruitment campaign that commenced last week. *** == User Experience Team Meeting == UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1600 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the logs from our meeting on May 17th: http <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>-15 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…>.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-17-15.59.log…> == Useful links == About the UX Team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team> UX repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux> UX roadmap: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=… <https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=…> UX kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX…> == Meetbot commands == - #startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting - #endmeeting --------------------------- Tuesday May 17th @ 16:00 UTC --------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24> S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32> S123 - Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34> == Announcements == Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable! https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/ <https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/> New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.12 (Android) https://blog.torproject.org/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11012/>new-release-tor-browser-11 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11012/>012 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11012/>/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11012/> == Agenda == Evergreen items: 1. Announcements 📣 2. Weekly planning 📅 3. Check-in with user support 💬 Discussion items for this week only: 4. Tor Browser for Android versioning 5. UX team at the East Africa meetup 6. Community QA recruitment campaign update == Weekly planning == Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold** duncan/donuts Last week (actual): - Final prep for the Community QA recruitment campaign launch in applications/team#6 - afk! This week (planned): - Catch up on email backlog - Review latest challenges and needs report in ux/research#25 - Review interview script feeback for S101 - Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885 - Design QA for TB 11.5a11 in applications/tor-browser#40911 Backlog/time permitting: - Start thinking about social previews/teasers for Tor Browser 11.5 - Write blog post to support the Community QA recruitment campaign in operations/communications#65 - Begin wireframes for the Tor VPN in ux/design#35 Nah Last week (actual): - finished transcribe all s9 interviews - wrote s9 report about digital rights organizations needs - did pilot test on interview script (s101) - collecting feedback on the interview script (s101) - planning user research for s96 - start prepare for east africa meetup This week (planned): - last updates and publish s9 report #25 - start plans for user research in Ecuador: snowflake webpage? tor browser download page? - start scheduling s101 interviews #76 - collecting feedback during a tor training on thursday - finish prep for east africa meetup - reach out some digital rights organizations to collect feedback on localized material - start plans for s96 research (connect assist): contact fabby, and tibet Nicob Last week (actual): - out sick most of last week - Annual report: Continued work on illustrations and overall design - S123: Continued QA work with kez on landing page - QA Alpha Tester Recruitment campaign: final graphics, forum badge, and posted graphics to ig and fb This week (planned): - Finish Annual Report design - Begin work on updating tor browser download page designs: wireframe and lo-fi screens: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248> Joydeep Check-in with user support: - User Support Report for April: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-May/003365.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-May/003365.html> - Update for GrapheneOS user wrt Fenix#40212: https://forum.torproject.net/t/crash-on-startup-bug/3283 <https://forum.torproject.net/t/crash-on-startup-bug/3283> == Open Call for User Research == Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ <https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/> Thanks everyone! *** Duncan Larsen-Russell Product Manager & UX Team Lead duncan(a)torproject.org <mailto:duncan@torproject.org>

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Community council updates (nothing's on fire!)
by Nick Mathewson 19 May '22

19 May '22

Hello! Hi! On behalf of the community council, I'm writing you this status update to let you know how we're doing. We haven't done one of these updates in a while, so we hope it's interesting. tl;dr: Nothing is currently on fire. Our activities at present fall into two main categories: reacting to existing situations that we've been asked to address, and proactively looking into our policies to see how to improve them in the future. In the first category, we have three ongoing (but unfortunately slow-moving) cases. One involves a hacker conference where we are seeking clarity about their safety policies; two involve people in the broader hacker community. We hope to have all of these resolved well before the end of this CC's tenure. In the second category, we're working in two directions to try to improve decision-making for future community councils, so that they can do their jobs more effectively: * We're working on a conflict-of-interest policy for community council members. (We don't have any COI cases before us now, but we think it's a good idea to get a solid policy written _before_ one comes up, to prevent arguments.) * We're working on a more formal information-continuity policy for the community council. (At present, the community council does not keep permanent records of past cases from one council to the next. This protects privacy, but opens us to misunderstandings and possible manipulation as council members rotate.) We are looking for a 'sweet spot' to allow us to preserve privacy while ensuring that future community councils have a reliable way to reach out to former councils for information. Finally, to anybody thinking of volunteering the community council in the future: I'd strongly recommend it. The workload has been quite manageable, the people have been professional and kind, and the stress levels have been (so far) comparatively low. best wishes, -- Nick

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Tomorrow we hangout!
by emma peel 19 May '22

19 May '22

Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets to translate together, share tricks, have fun while translating, meet fellow translators, and find out about the l10n priorities for the Tor Project. Tomorrow on the hangout we will talk about the coming updates of the Tor Browser, with new connection - bridges configuration. We will install a Tor alpha to see how the new connection works and what is a Bridge emoji. Come join us on the Localization Hangout, from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC. (you can also use Element https://element.io/ to connect: #tor-l10n:matrix.org) At 13 UTC we make a call on Big Blue Button If you are not a translator yet, you still have time to become one before the hangout: https://community.torproject.org/localization/becoming-tor-translator/ What do we do in a hangout? Translate stuff Share translation tips and resources Complain about developers Talk about translation priorities Talk about our local contexts Practice bug reporting and git skills

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Tails report for April 2022
by sajolida 17 May '22

17 May '22

Tails report for April 2022 <https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2022_04/> * Disoj, our new Project Manager, started working with us. It's the first time Tails has a dedicated Project Manager and we are all very excited about this change. Disoj will help us work better and faster to accomplish our mission <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/mission/>. * We got very busy preparing Tails 5.0 <https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html>. * We upgraded all our infrastructure to Debian 11 to ensures that all our public and internal servers will continue receiving security updates timely after August. * We organized 2 online trainings <https://tails.boum.org/news/ciclo_de_autodefensa_digital_mexico/index.en.ht…> for people in Mexico. You can download our slides <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/slides/Ciclo_Autodef…> and the structure <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/promote/material/slides/Ciclo_Autodef…> of the training if you want to organize Tails workshops yourself. * Tails has been started more than 783 850 times this month. This makes 25 031 boots a day on average. -- sajolida Tails — https://tails.boum.org/ UX · Fundraising · Technical Writing

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Community Team meeting notes - May 9 2022
by gus 16 May '22

16 May '22

Hi, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-09-13.59.log… And our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad Next meeting: Monday, May 16, 2022 - 1400 UTC Weekly meetings, every Monday at 14:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) ## Goal of this meeting Weekly check-in about the status of Community Team work at Tor. ## Links to Useful documents * Previous meetings: https://forum.torproject.net/tag/community-team * Monthly l10n hangout: * https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ * Known issues with Tor Browser: * https://tb-manual.torproject.org/known-issues/ and Tor Browser for Android: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/#known-issues ## Announcement * New (Tor Browser) Alpha Tester Badges are now live on the forum! (https://forum.torproject.net/badges/ see under 'Testing') * s123 looks like the nirvana of translation, and we will have a lot of new locales ## Discussion * TB Alpha testing + release - Next steps: - work on the TB User Manual updates in a pad till the end of May - emmapeel will send the new strings for translation * Training page: - Next steps: - Raya will ping kez to see what's possible to implement with Lektor (re: filters) * Demhack.ru hackathon: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/issues/61 ## Updates Joydeep: Last week: - S125 wrap up - Tor Browser Alpha testing and QA - user support work: forum, RT, cdr.link - monthly report - deployed a text module on cdr.link to collect feedback wrt TB Alpha (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40079) This week: - 1:1 sync with Gus - Weekly sync with the UX team - adjusting discourse trust levels: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40060 - TB Alpha testing contd. - Tasks related to collecting Tor Browser Alpha feedback from our support channels: 1. Create a pad to collect user feedback from RT and cdr.link and track down TB alpha bugs 2. Create a template on RT to tag tickets Help with: - Something you need help with. Gus: Last week: - Team 1:1s - Merged: https://community.torproject.org/training/partners/ - Worked on the Tor Meetup - East Africa - Reviewed the sysadmin workshop survey with gman999: https://nc.torproject.net/apps/forms/cDLPxryHJcP5kMeW - Worked with Rafael Bonifaz and Maria for the OONI + Tor workshop: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/47 - Contacted top exit operators running !0.4.7.7 and asked to upgrade - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/46 - Announced the next relay operator meetup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/45 - Sponsor125 retrospective This week: - Alix Dunn facilitation course - Team 1:1s - S96 meeting - S9 meeting - Work on East africa meetup agenda with raya and isa - Submit the final demhack.ru project: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/issues/61 - Network health work with GeKo Help with: - Reviewing Felix contribution - a relay docker image: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/43 raya: Last week: - submitted s123 report - 1:1 with gus - s123 coordination: full list of services and languages - s123: handling some blockages - working on general presentation about onion services: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/44 - working on bread&net proposal: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/outreach/-/issues/40011 This week: - submit bread&net proposal - first draft of presentation: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/44 Nina: Last week: - English-Russian translations for TB Alpha Testing: announcements, templates, etc. - TB Alpha testing - User support on RT and cdr.link - dealing with broken bot - wrap up with s125 - Monthly report This week: - Activities arount TB Alpha - 1:1 with Gus - User support rhatto: Last week: - S123 - Continue the Onionprobe testbed setup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/merge_request… - S123 - Work on new deployments - 1:1 with Gus This week: - S123 - Continue the Onionprobe testbed setup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/merge_request… - S123 - Work on new deployments - S123 - Onionmine: batch mode: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionmine/-/issues/7 - S123 - Continue to work on new deployments emmapeel: Last week: - s123 and s125 l10n work: onboarding, documentation, stats - debug onion landing page i18n - general l10n documentation - gitlab gardening This week: - publish website translations - stats in gitlab -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Job Opening: OONI Community Coordinator
by Maria Xynou 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hello, I'm excited to share that we're hiring! The OONI team (a non-profit fighting internet censorship) is looking for a dedicated *community coordinator* to help grow and support the OONI community around the world. *Information about the job description, qualification requirements, and how to apply* is available here: https://ooni.org/post/2022-job-opening-ooni-community-coordinator/ Born in 2012, OONI builds free software (OONI Probe) that enables anyone to detect and collect evidence of internet censorship. With more than 100k installs, OONI Probe is run in more than 160 countries every month. To increase transparency of internet censorship, we publish censorship measurements as open data in near real-time. This data supports research and advocacy efforts investigating and fighting internet censorship worldwide. By joining our team, you will support our partners and global community of human rights defenders to measure and fight internet censorship. Our community is at the heart of our work, and you will play an important role in helping to ensure that our tools meet the needs of our community. This is a *full-time 12-month contract position* (which may be extended), starting ASAP. This is a *fully remote position*. We encourage applications from anywhere in the world! The application deadline is *Sunday, 12th June 2022.* Please spread the word ( https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1525110440153559040) and help us find someone who can best serve the internet freedom community! Thank you, OONI team.

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-5-12
by Shelikhoo 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-12-15.58.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html> And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 19th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == 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 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * == Discussion == * Snowflake doesn't work in Russia (connection failure by timeout) * there are some anomalies in OONI for RU, but they are not higher than some coutries like CA * most of snowflake users are comming from Russia, it works at least for some * stunreachability measurements show 3 (of 12) STUN servers inaccessible in Russia, 2 blocked by Russian ISPs, 1 possibly geoblocking of users in Russia * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=stunreachability&… * flakey bridge-stats still show plenty of connections from Russia today * whoever added this discussion item is not here to supply more details * Moat gives blocklisted(ru) bridges in Russia (e.g. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1807BF9A521468998385F179DDBF…) * meskio will investigate it == Actions == * == Interesting links == * == Reading group == * We will discuss "Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship, ACM WWW 2021" on May 19th, 2022 * https://shhaos.github.io/papers/www21-DoE.pdf * 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. anadahz: 2022-01-27 Last week: - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/mer… cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-05-12 Last week: - work on conjure PT - review of Distributed snowflake server support (snowflake!87) This week: - continue work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-05-12 Last week: - started to look at OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - write up observations on OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia Help with: arlolra: 2022-04-07 Last week: - Merged the rest of snowflake !81 Next week: - Get to snowflake-webext #10 Evergreen: - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: - maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… re: utls for broker negotiation - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74 - Too busy with work :/ Next week: - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper meskio: 2022-05-12 Last week: - add location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108) - use a worker to write telegram metrics (rdsys!39) - deploy a test setup for dynamic bridges updates API (rdsys#98) - prepare demhack.ru hackathon challenge (team#61) - configure our mergerequest assignments bot so cohosh only gets snowflake ones (TriageOps!8) Next week: - rethink distributor retries to the rdsys backend (rdsys#99) - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72) Shelikhoo: 2022-05-12 Last Week: - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Merge Request Review] Telegram distributor hands both new and old bridges to old accounts (snowflake!37) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound (continue) Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) Itchy Onion: 2022-05-12 Last week: - prepared for Georgetown meeting (read code/docs about snowflake) This week: - audit PI meeting - working on the snowflake issues assigned to me - review MRs assigned to me HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16 This week: Last/done: Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space Next: Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain

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Documentation about meetings at Tor
by Gaba 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi! I updated the documentation on how we run meetings in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings Please read it and if you have any comment send them to me via MR or private message or this list. I'm also interested to know your opinion on how we are running meetings: - What works? - What can be improved? - What do you need to feel more comfortable participating in meetings? Any access needs that we did not consider yet? cheers, gaba -- pronouns she/her/they GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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