[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Mon Dec 16 17:20:07 UTC 2013
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version 36
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-12-16T16:41:07+00:00
cleanup
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@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@
[XXX] https://www.cyber-arabs.com/
[XXX] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:Torservers_Meetup
-Monthly status reports
-----------------------
-
Miscellaneous news
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version 35
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-12-16T16:40:42+00:00
highlight Tails' report; push help desk report to the end
--- version 34
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@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@
to find seven more organizations that are willing to rent servers for a
period of at least 2 years” [XXX]. For this reason, he called for groups
interested in supporting the Tor network to get in contact, in
-order to discuss how they can best set up and maintain Tor services,
-announcing at the same time that the first such partnership will be with
-the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Cyber Arabs group [XXX]. If you
+order to discuss how they can best set up and maintain Tor services.
+The first such partnership will be with
+the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Cyber Arabs group [XXX].
+
+If you
represent an organization that could make this much-needed contribution
to the Tor network, please contact the Torservers.net team, or join them at
-the Tor Relay Operators meetup during the upcoming Chaos Communication
+the Tor relay operators meetup during the upcoming Chaos Communication
Congress in Hamburg [XXX].
[XXX] https://blog.torservers.net/20131213/torservers-awarded-250000-by-digital-defenders.html
@@ -98,16 +100,15 @@
Monthly status reports
----------------------
-The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members continued,
-with reports from the Help Desk for October [XXX] and November [XXX],
-followed by a November report from the Tails folks [XXX].
-
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-December/000404.html
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-December/000405.html
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-December/000406.html
-
Miscellaneous news
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+
+The Tails team reported on the vast amount of activities that happened during
+November 2013 [XXX]. Upcoming in next Tails releases: updated I2P, a new
+clock applet with configurable timezone, better localization, incremental
+upgrades, safer persistence, MAC spoofing…
+
+ [XXX] https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2013_11/
meejah announced the release of txtorcon 0.8.2, and warned users that
they should upgrade if they use that program's TCP4HiddenServiceEndpoint
@@ -139,6 +140,11 @@
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-December/005948.html
+Lunar has sent reports from the Tor help desk for October [XXX] and November [XXX].
+
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-December/000404.html
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-December/000405.html
+
Tor help desk roundup
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version 34
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-12-16T16:31:30+00:00
work on the Tor announcement a little bit
--- version 33
+++ version 34
@@ -15,15 +15,19 @@
Tor 0.2.4.19 is out
-------------------
-Roger Dingledine announced [XXX] the first stable release in the
-Tor 0.2.4 series, as well as the dedication of this series to the memory
-of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013). Tor 0.2.4.19 boasts a large number of
-major new features, among them a new circuit handshake, improved link
+After more than a year in the making, Roger Dingledine announced [XXX]
+the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.4 series, as well as the
+dedication of this series to the memory of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013).
+
+Tor 0.2.4 boasts a large number of major new features, among them a
+new circuit handshake, improved link
encryption, a flexible approach to the queueing of circuit creation
requests, and the use of “directory guards” to defend against
client-enumeration attacks. You can consult the full changelog in
-Roger's announcement, and download the source code [XXX]; prebuilt
-packages will be available shortly.
+Roger's announcement, and download the source code [XXX]
+
+As no code changes were made since the previous release candidate,
+there is no reasons for users of tor 0.2.4.18-rc to hurry an upgrade.
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-December/031392.html
[XXX] https://www.torproject.org/dist/
version 33
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-12-16T16:22:28+00:00
I'd rather see software featured more prominently than the grant to
torservers.net; feel free to revert
--- version 32
+++ version 33
@@ -11,37 +11,6 @@
Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that
covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
-
-Torservers.net awarded $250,000 grant
--------------------------------------
-
-The Torservers.net team announced [XXX] that they have received a
-$250,000 organizational grant, to be spread over two years, from the
-Digital Defenders Partnership [XXX], which in its own words was
-“established to provide rapid response to threats to internet freedom.”
-
-With this grant, wrote Moritz Bartl, “participating Torservers
-organizations will be able to sustain at least 3 Gbit/s of exit
-traffic, and 2000 fast and up-to-date bridges.”
-
-In order to make the most efficient use of this significant contribution
-to the Tor network while maintaining its diversity, wrote Moritz, “we need
-to find seven more organizations that are willing to rent servers for a
-period of at least 2 years” [XXX]. For this reason, he called for groups
-interested in supporting the Tor network to get in contact, in
-order to discuss how they can best set up and maintain Tor services,
-announcing at the same time that the first such partnership will be with
-the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Cyber Arabs group [XXX]. If you
-represent an organization that could make this much-needed contribution
-to the Tor network, please contact the Torservers.net team, or join them at
-the Tor Relay Operators meetup during the upcoming Chaos Communication
-Congress in Hamburg [XXX].
-
- [XXX] https://blog.torservers.net/20131213/torservers-awarded-250000-by-digital-defenders.html
- [XXX] http://digitaldefenders.org/
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-December/003495.html
- [XXX] https://www.cyber-arabs.com/
- [XXX] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:Torservers_Meetup
Tor 0.2.4.19 is out
-------------------
@@ -90,6 +59,37 @@
[XXX] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.22/
[XXX] https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_0.21/
+
+Torservers.net awarded $250,000 grant
+-------------------------------------
+
+The Torservers.net team announced [XXX] that they have received a
+$250,000 organizational grant, to be spread over two years, from the
+Digital Defenders Partnership [XXX], which in its own words was
+“established to provide rapid response to threats to internet freedom.”
+
+With this grant, wrote Moritz Bartl, “participating Torservers
+organizations will be able to sustain at least 3 Gbit/s of exit
+traffic, and 2000 fast and up-to-date bridges.”
+
+In order to make the most efficient use of this significant contribution
+to the Tor network while maintaining its diversity, wrote Moritz, “we need
+to find seven more organizations that are willing to rent servers for a
+period of at least 2 years” [XXX]. For this reason, he called for groups
+interested in supporting the Tor network to get in contact, in
+order to discuss how they can best set up and maintain Tor services,
+announcing at the same time that the first such partnership will be with
+the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Cyber Arabs group [XXX]. If you
+represent an organization that could make this much-needed contribution
+to the Tor network, please contact the Torservers.net team, or join them at
+the Tor Relay Operators meetup during the upcoming Chaos Communication
+Congress in Hamburg [XXX].
+
+ [XXX] https://blog.torservers.net/20131213/torservers-awarded-250000-by-digital-defenders.html
+ [XXX] http://digitaldefenders.org/
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-December/003495.html
+ [XXX] https://www.cyber-arabs.com/
+ [XXX] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:Torservers_Meetup
Monthly status reports
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