Happy new year!
Here are our meeting notes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-07-15.58.html
and our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday January 7th 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?sc...
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%...
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 ==
Cure53 is engaged by the Berkeley Counter-Power Lab to do a security audit of Turbo Tunnel in Snowflake.
dcf has advised them to correspond on the anti-censorship-team list if possible.
== Discussion ==
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/kj7git/is_bamsoftwarecom_related_to_th...
Malwarebytes apparently blocks snowflake.bamsoftware.com and snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com.
But this should not have happened since https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... (webext-0.0.6), which changed *.bamsoftware.com to *.freehaven.net? https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=...
How did this user get a copy of the browser extension that still contacts these old domains?
Pick a reading for the next reading group discussion
== Actions ==
December 2020 monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/mh4PvdOzncZlcxwHGROn
== Interesting links ==
GitHub is now available in Iran: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-a...
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Early Detection of Censorship Events with Psiphon Network Data" on Jan 21, 2021.
https://tics.site/proceedings/2019a/icn_2019_7_10_38005.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.
phw: This week (2020-01-07):
Filled out TPA survey.
Figured out root cause of bridgestrap's dormant mode issue.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/12
Improved queuing mechanism of rdsys's interaction with bridgestrap.
Filed issue to incorporate emma into OONI.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/emma/-/issues/5
Filed monit issue to watch out for future obfs4proxy problems.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/issu...
Found and fixed race condition in bridgestrap's cache implementation.
Next week:
Progress on Salmon's privacy improvements.
Brainstorm a way to do censorship measurement for Salmon.
Help with:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/merge_reques...
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-01-07 Last 2-3 weeks: - mostly afk - updated version of pion webrtc to 3.0.0 (snowflake#40027) This week: - cleaned up a simple script for comparing the performance of two versions of snowflake: https://gitlab.torproject.org/-/snippets/69 This week: - continued work on snowflake overhead performance, and stacking reliable protocols Needs help with: - review of snowflake!25 (closes snowflake#40027)
arlolra: 2020-10-29
Last week:
-
Next week:
- getting back up to speed
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2021-01-07
Last week:
- Azure bookkeeping
Next week:
- make a ticket to change {snowflake,snowflake-broker}.freehaven.net into CNAMES of the corresponding torproject.net domains, not bamsoftware.com
- review pion v3 upgrade https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
Help with:
Antonela: 2020-08-27
This week:
agix:2021-01-07
Last week:
-Research on httpt #4
Next week:
-Finish rdsys #6
Help with:
-
hanneloresx: 2020-10-22
Last week:
- Took break to focus on work
Next week:
- #32117: Look at CAPTCHA success rate for users from the US across different types of bridges
Help with:
-
HashikD: 2020-11-19
This week:
-
Next week:
-
Help with: -