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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 March 11
by Cecylia Bocovich 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Hey everyone, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-11-15.58.html and the meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday March 11th 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 checkin 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 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 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&… Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to include. == Announcements == Over 1,000 responses to Snowflake user survey https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… == Discussion == == Actions == == Interesting links == https://ntc.party/t/twitter/907 == 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 2020-03-11 Last week: - deeper dive into belarus blocking (censorship-analysis#40002) - looked into snowflake censorship in china (snowflake#32657) - responded to snowflake bridge outage (snowflake#40033) - opened a ticket about snowflake's OR conns (snowflake#40035) - wrote a patch to clean up snowflake logging a bit (snowflake!30) - more hiring things - followed up on bridgestrap!6 review - planning how to recover from most of our private bridges going away - patched GetTor in response to outage (gettor#77) This week: - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - pull more bridges from our unallocated pool for private distribution (bridgedb#40010) - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026 - more hiring things - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days - prepare snowflake for sponsor 28 evaluations Needs help with: - review of snowflake!30 arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-03-11 Last week: - updated Go version requirement in Snowflake README https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - opened an issue to upgrade tor on the Snowflake bridge for a security vulnerability https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-03-11 Last week: -Been busy with university stuff for the last few weeks Next week: -Work on bridgebox for rdsys -More research on httpt #4 Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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Invitation to Tor's Hackweek from March 29th to April 2nd
by Gaba 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hi Tor people! During the last week of March, the Tor Project is running a hackweek. The idea is to promote small projects that can be wrapped up in 5 days. We have a list of projects proposed by people from the Tor community and are open to any other project people may want to propose. You can find the list of projects (as well as other info) in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/hackweek For each project, you will find information on who is coordinating/leading it, what is the project about and a pad where you can add yourself to if you are interested in it. Write your name under the section "Team". Each team will meet in IRC or BBB and coordinate work through the week. On Friday each team will demo the work they did during the week. On Monday March 29th, we are going to hold an open session to present the projects people are going to work on. cheers, gaba -- pronouns she/her/they GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 4 March 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-04-15.58.html and our meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-keep

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User Feedback Report - February 2021
by Joydeep Sen Gupta 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hello everyone! This is a report of some of the work done by the Community Team in the past month and general user feedback that we've received across our official support channels. --- Request Tracker --- This includes tickets created between 11th to 28th February, 2021. Tickets created: 112 Tickets resolved: 156 (we resolved a lot of tickets that we were backlogged on) # New RT templates We aggregated statistics of what issues Tor users are frequently running into and made their solutions into articles/templates on the RT. This will help folks working on the RT to better support users. We created/updated the following articles: 1. Can't upload files on Tor Browser for Android 2. Tor Browser displaying webpages in foreign language 3. Unlisted obfs4 bridges 4. My Bank's website is blocking Tor 5. How to download 32-bit version of Tor Browser Here is a list of issues which got the most attention (at least 2 tickets on RT): # Tor Browser Breakdown of number of RT tickets received with respect to operating system: Windows (10,8,7 ...all the way upto Vista) - 30 MacOS - 7 GNU/Linux - 4 Android- 8 (Note: This includes tickets where the user mentioned the operating system or it was evident from the issue they were running into or enclosed screenshots.) 1. 11 RT tickets - Failure to launch Tor Browser. We point users to the "Six-point basic troubleshooting" article (template) on the RT to help users. 2. 3 RT tickets - Tor Browser doesn't run on Arch/openSUSE Tumbleweed/Fedora Rawhide. [1] 3. 3 RT tickets - DuckDuckGo doesn't redirect to it's html page on "Safest" Security Setting. The issue has been covered by the following ticket.[2] 4. 2 RT tickets - Cannot upload files on Tor Browser for Android. Regarding this we have a ticket open on our GitLab [3]. Last month, we also added this issue to the 'Known Issues' section in the Tor Browser User Manual.[4] 5. 2 RT tickets - Questions on how to import/export bookmarks in Tor Browser. We direct users to the article in the Tor Browser Manual.[5] 6. 2 RT tickets - Webpages show up in foreign languages. We have made the response to this into a template on RT taking help from the article in our Support portal.[6] # General Issues 1. 3 RT tickets - Enquiries on relay setup. We direct users to the relay guide we have on the Community Portal.[7] 2. 2 RT tickets - Users unable to subscribe to the Newsletter since some major email services are bouncing our emails. We are running into this issue again this month. There's some discussion on this ticket.[8] # UI/UX and documentation 1. 2 RT tickets - Users unable to donate via our donation page. We are still investigating the issue with the concerned users. 2. We have now updated all of our documentation (including screenshots and screencaps) in accordance with Tor Browser 10's interface.[9] 3. Since Tor Browser Developers Key is now available on keys.openpgp.org, we have accordingly updated our documentation around this.[10] We have been unable to officially provide support in the following channels but here's what the discussion was about in the past month: 4. Google Play Store - In terms of user experience, reviews mostly revolve around- 'Can't keep Tor Browser for Android running in the background', 'cannot launch urls in Tor Browser without having it running and connected first', 'can't upload files with the browser' and 'Tor Browser is slow'. Although in terms of ratings we have quite a good amount of 4-star reviews. 5. Tor Stack Exchange - Statistics of what the discussion has been about (5 most active tags): tor-browser-bundle- 23 questions configuration (questions about configuring Tor software)- 11 questions hidden-services- 12 questions anonymity- 8 questions 6. Reddit- Discussion has mostly been around DNS leaks while using Tor in Brave Browser and issues related to censorship. General discussion on using Tor and also a peak in interest regarding Snowflake. # Anti-censorship and metrics 1. Including RT and #tor, we got a total of 6 requests for private bridges which have been from China (two requests), Middle East (two requests), Belarus (one request) and Thailand (one request). 2. Ongoing issue of users unable to connect to some of the bridges and/or relay statistics not showing up on metrics. We have the following GitLab tickets to cover this issue.[11][12] If you have any suggestions, questions or want to discuss anything in detail please feel free to reach out to me and/or anyone from the Community Team! Thanks, Joydeep Links: [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40328 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/torbutton/-/issues/40030 [3]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40283 [4]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/#known-issues [5]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/export-and-import-bookmarks/ [6]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-43/ [7]: https://community.torproject.org/relay/ [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40164 [9]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/ [10]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/ [11]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/outreach/-/issues/40001 [12]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40005 -- Joydeep Sen Gupta irc: championquizzer gpg: C8C8 6A4B E247 2D2D C345 9046 5B57 1AA7 D685 E67D

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 25 February 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Hi everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-25-15.58.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday February 25th 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 checkin 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 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 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&… Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels <-- do we still need this? The label is 'for anticensorship team' Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep == Announcements == Snowflake user survey posted https://blog.torproject.org/learning-more-about-tor-users https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/491436 == Discussion == Snowflake bridge users suspiciously plateau at ~180 last week https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6… Possible blocking in Belarus https://ntc.party/t/shift-in-tor-obfs4-and-meek-users-on-2021-02-13/890 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… == Actions == == Interesting links == https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine == Reading group == We will discuss "Investigating Large Scale HTTPS Interception in Kazakhstan" on 2020-03-04 https://censoredplanet.org/assets/Kazakhstan.pdf https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan 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 2020-02-25 Last week: - patched stem on polyanthum to fix bridgedb#40006 issue - wrote bridgedb!13 to continue parsing remaining extrainfo descriptors if one was malformed - lots of interviews! - s28 meetings - started setting up network emulations for snowflake#40026 - worked on some logging patches to measure congestion for snowflake - helped a user debug possible blocking Belarus and found some interesting metrics: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/46#issuecomment-782897099 This week: - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - a few more sponsor 28 meetings - hiring interviews - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026 - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026) - revise gettor.torproject.org instructions (gettor-web#1) Needs help with: arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-02-25 Last week: Next week: Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-02-25 Last week: -More research on httpt #4 -Inspired by cohosh's bridgebox I worked on a local test environment for rdsys, still facing issues with running bridgestrap locally Next week: -Fix issues regarding bridgestrap Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-2-11 Last week: - Finished emma #6 Next week: - Work on bridgestrap #14 Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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February 2021 Tor DEMO Day - (Open) Call for proposals
by gus 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi Tor, Tor DEMO days are back! And this is happening at the end of the month, February 24 @ 1600 UTC. Feel free to list yourself in the pad. http://kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r34ya464gqz6c44bnyd.onion/p/tor… https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-demo-day-february-2021-keep cheers, Gus Tor DEMO DAY ============ Why? ---- - We want to spice up our remote working routine and also break the silos between teams. - Tor Demo Days are a success and we want to share this experience with the broad Tor community! How? ---- - We will call for presenters. - The agenda will be set before the meeting and will be shared with tor-project. - We want 5 to 8 minutes length presentations. We will handle questions at the end of all presentations. - Slides are allowed, but not mandatory. You may share your screen or a pre-recorded video if that makes you less anxious. - We like the adrenaline of the live presentations, but if they wish, presenters can share pre-recorded videos with us. They should be sent a few hours in advance and will be lined up and shared with assistants during the session. - This is a place where people should feel safe to engage, share their point of view, and participate. Read our Code of Conduct: https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/code_of_conduct.t… Who? ---- - Anyone who wants to share what they have been hacking on. It doesn't need to be a finished feature but a work in progress. It can be small like a Tor Browser feature or something you have been hacking around Tor not officially. - Presenters have 5 to 8 minutes. People can ask questions via text in the pad for 3 minutes. - Gus will moderate at this time. We can rotate this role. Where? ------ At our BBB instance. A public link will be shared soon. When? ----- Wednesday, FEBRUARY 24 at 1600 UTC Questions will be written in text on the pad in any time during the presentation. Presenters will answer them in audio. Agenda ------ Presentations: ADD HERE THE PROPOSAL YOU HAVE FOR A SHORT PRESENTATION. https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-demo-day-february-2021-keep -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead http://expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion/

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 18 February 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-18-15.57.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday February 18th 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 checkin 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 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 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&… Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels <-- do we still need this? The label is 'for anticensorship team' Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep == Announcements == == Discussion == == Actions == == Interesting links == == Reading group == We will discuss "" 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 2020-02-18 Last week: - updated bridgedb readme - created a test environment to test out changes to bridgedb: https://github.com/cohosh/bridgebox - touched up bridgedb scripts - found cause of bridgedb#40006 - confirmed access to snowflake azure subscription - hiring stuff - starting setting up network simulations to detect snowflake bottlenecks (snowflake#40026) - anti-censorship roadmapping This week: - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - sponsor 28 meetings - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026) - fix extra-info parsing bug for bridges (bridgedb#40006) - hiring stuff Needs help with: arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-02-18 Last week: - commented on Snowflake FAQs https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-02-18 Last week: -More research on httpt #4 -Worked on rdsys #6 Next week: -Work on rdsys #6 Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-2-11 Last week: - Finished emma #6 Next week: - Work on bridgestrap #14 Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 11 February 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-11-15.58.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday February 11th16:00 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 checkin 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 <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 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home> * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ <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… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s…> * Sponsor 30 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6> * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10> * possible tickets: 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&…>%5b%5d <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…>=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep><-- it will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels<-- do we still need this? The label is 'for anticensorship team' * Public bug-reporting pad: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep> == Announcements == * Research ideas page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-ide… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-ide…> == Discussion == * What are the FAQs? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…> == Actions == * == Interesting links == * Signal simple TLS proxy: https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/ <https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/> * Interesting approach to the proxy distribution problem: post #IRanASignalProxy and wait for people to DM you * https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech <https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech> * Experimental source dump for pluggable transport for signal-desktop * https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ <https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ> * Pluggable Transports spec v2.2 Draft 1 == Reading group == * We will discuss"" * 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 2020-02-11 Last week: - so many meetings - finished working on a snowflake survey (snowflake#40007) - lots of hiring things - looked into network simulation for analyzing snowflake performance issues (snowflake#40026) - worked on connecting bridgedb to rdsys backend (rdsys#12) - sponsor 28 evaluation prep - made a research ideas wiki page - meeting with grad student to talk about reputation-based bridge distribution project - debugged an issue with bridgedb not reporting obfs4 bridges (bridgedb#40006) This week: - integrate gettor and rdsys (rdsys#32) - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - sponsor 28 meetings - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026) - debug lack of bridgedb IPv6 obfs4 bridges (bridgedb#40006) Needs help with: arlolra: 2020-10-29 * Last week: * - * Next week: * - getting back up to speed * - follow ups to #33365 * - start on #31201 * Help with: * - dcf:2021-02-11 * Last week: * - opened a ticket to update links in Snowflake webextension description https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…> * - updated bug reporting instructions on the Snowflake wiki page https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…> * Next week: * Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 * This week: * agix:2021-01-28 * Last week: * -Research on httpt #4 * Next week: * -(For sure) finish rdsys #6 * Help with: * - hanneloresx: 2021-2-11 * Last week: * - Finished emma #6 * Next week: * - Workon bridgestrap #14 * Help with: * - HashikD: 2021-01-22 * Thisweek: * - * Next week: * - * Help with: -

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User Feedback Report - January 2021
by Joydeep Sen Gupta 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hello everyone! This is a report of some of the work done by the Community Team in the past month and general user feedback that we've received across our official support channels. --- Request Tracker --- Tickets received in the past month: 257 Tickets resolved in the past month: 190 # New RT templates We aggregated statistics of what issues Tor users are frequently running into and made their solutions into articles/templates on the RT. This will help folks working on the RT to better support users. We created/updated the following articles: 1. Basic troubleshooting when users can't access any particular website 2. Antivirus software blocking Tor Browser 3. How to contribute? - code, report issues, help with docs, etc. 4. How Tor works? 5. How to obtain Tor logs and share them with us? 6. How to connect to built-in Bridges? Here is a list of issues which got the most attention (at least 3 tickets on RT): # Tor Browser Breakdown of number of RT tickets received with respect to operating system: Windows (10,8,7 ...all the way upto XP) - 17 MacOS - 9 GNU/Linux - 3 Android - 14 (Note: This includes tickets where the user mentioned the operating system or it was evident from the issue they were running into or enclosed screenshots.) 1. 14 RT tickets - Failure to launch Tor Browser. We point users to the "Six-point basic troubleshooting" article (template) on the RT to help users. 2. 4 RT tickets - Cannot upload files on Tor Browser for Android. Regarding this we have a ticket open on our GitLab [1]. We have also added this issue to the 'Known Issues' section in the Tor Browser User Manual [2] 3. 4 RT tickets - Questions on how to bookmark webpages in Tor Browser. We direct users to the article in the Support Portal [3] 4. 3 RT tickets - Error "RSA_get0_d could not be located in the dynamic link library tor.exe" on Windows. We have a GitLab ticket regarding this long standing issue [4] 5. 3 RT tickets - Confusion around what apk to download from our Download page (under Android) [5] # Onion Services 3 tickets- v3 onion service outages. All of these tickets have come from folks who read random clickbait articles on the internet and wanted our comments on the same. # General Issues 1. 5 RT tickets - Lot of queries around Mozilla's blog post in January and how that 'affects' Tor Browser. [6] 2. 3 RT tickets - Users unable to subscribe to the Newsletter since some major email services are bouncing our emails. There's some discussion on this ticket. [7] 3. 3 RT tickets - Users unable to subscribe to the newsletter when visiting it's onion address. We have a ticket to cover this issue [8] 4. This is an issue **we** are facing. We are receiving a large amount of spam on the RT every day. In the past month, 1770 spam tickets were either detected by the filters or we had to sort them by hand (the actual number of spam tickets is much larger than that) :) # UI/UX and documentation 1. 7 RT tickets - Reddit blocking Tor. Youtube making it very difficult for users to connect to while using Tor. We are covering this issue under a ticket to document websites, especially the ones in the top 500 in terms of traffic, which are blocking or making it difficult for users to connect to while using Tor [9]. Also see a post on Reddit regarding this issue [10] 2. Before the launch of the survey regarding Snowflake with the next version of Tor Browser Alpha [11], we have added some FAQ entries on Snowflake in the Support Portal [12] 3. We also made some notable changes to the documentation and updated the 'Known Issues' page [13] and added instructions on how users can obtain their Tor logs and share them with us [14]. We have been unable to officially provide support in the following channels but here's what the discussion was about in the past month: 4. Google Play Store - In terms of user experience, I am happy to report that unlike last month, we have received more positive reviews. The 'most liked' comments either have a 4-star or 5-star rating reviews. We still have some heavily liked comments with one 1-star and negative reviews though. 5. Tor Stack Exchange - Statistics of what the discussion has been about (5 most active tags): tor-browser-bundle- 27 questions configuration (questions about configuring Tor software)- 10 questions hidden-services- 8 questions anonymity- 15 questions security- 7 questions 6. Reddit- Discussion has mostly been around the v3 onion service outages, censorship and internet shutdown events in the Global South and Reddit itself blocking connections over Tor. # Anti-censorship and metrics 1. Including RT and #tor, we got a total of 8 requests for private bridges which have been from China (three requests), Turkmenistan (two requests), Turkey (one request), Iran (one request) and Eastern Europe (Russian locale) (one request). 2. In the past month, there have been numerous instances of censorship and internet shutdowns in the Global South - namely in Uganda, India and Myanmar. For one user in Uganda who was using an iOS device and didn't have OnionBrowser installed on their phone before Apple's App Store was censored, we collaborated with folks to provide them with configuration files to activate VPN natively on their device in order to access the App Store and download OnionBrowser (for some context, apps cannot be sideloaded on iOS and therefore the GetTor method doesn't work in this case). 3. Ongoing issue of users unable to connect to some of the bridges and/or relay statistics not showing up on metrics. We have the following GitLab tickets to cover this issue. [15][16] If you have any suggestions, questions or want to discuss anything in detail please feel free to reach out to me and/or anyone from the Community Team! Thanks, Joydeep Links: [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40283 [2]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/#known-issues [3]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/export-and-import-bookmarks/ [4]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/33702 [5]: https://www.torproject.org/download/#android [6]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ [7]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40164 [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/newsletter/-/issues/13 [9]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40013 [10]: https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/l4cexf/tor_and_reddit_problems_faq/ [11]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… [12]: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/ [13]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/known-issues/ [14]: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/troubleshooting/ [15]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/outreach/-/issues/40001 [16]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40005 -- Joydeep Sen Gupta IRC: championquizzer GPG: C8C8 6A4B E247 2D2D C345 9046 5B57 1AA7 D685 E67D

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UX team monthly meeting notes, Feb 9th
by Duncan Larsen-Russell 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hello! Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting, and we're looking forward to seeing you all again in March. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log…> During today’s meeting we introduced a new project for the UX team: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS), planned the final details of the upcoming Tor Browser and Snowflake user surveys, onboarded two new user research contributors who we’re very excited to have running their own sessions in the near future, and lastly received an update from josernitos on their developing research project. *** Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Next meeting will be held on Tuesday 2nd March at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the minutes for the meeting of February 9th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of January 12th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-12-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-12-13.58.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of November 10th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-10-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-10-13.58.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of October 13th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-13-13.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-13-13.59.log…> -------------------------- Tuesday February 9th 14:00 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&… S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… S84 - Onion Guides • https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… == Announcements == * Tor Browser 10.0.9 Release: • https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1009 * Tor Browser Alpha 10.5.a8 Release: • https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8 == Agenda == 1. New Project: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS) • 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&…> 2. Final planning for the upcoming surveys: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/11 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/11> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…> * Chat about TB lang versions 3. Onboarding for new UR contributors: * Introductions Questions for UR contributors: * Is this your first contribution to the Tor Project? * Where will your research take place? * Who are your audience? Questions for the Tor * What are Tor's research priorities? == Open Call for User Research == Materials and next steps for the contributors who attended today's session: - Subscribe to the UX mailing: • https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo <https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo> - Find out more about user research for Tor on our Community portal: • https://community.torproject.org/user-research/ <https://community.torproject.org/user-research/> - Create an account on Gitlab, browse the UX Research repo, and get up to speed on Tor's personas: • https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research> - Read the guidelines on how to do user research with Tor: • https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/README.md <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/README.md> - Familiarize yourself with the User Needs Discovery activity: • https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%2… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%2…> - Begin to think about the details of your session (i.e. Where are your participants joining the session from? How many will be attending? What materials/support will you need? When will your session take place?) - Lastly: when you're ready, head back to the #tor-ux channel or email the team to review your session plan :) For anyone else who'd like to get involved: the UX team meets monthly on IRC in the #tor-meeting channel on the OFTC network. If you’re not familiar with IRC here are some instructions to get started: https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help <https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help>

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