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version 27
Author: harmony
Date:   2013-09-23T12:51:06+00:00

   possible adjective

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 Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that
-covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+covers what's happening in the well-heeled Tor community.
 
 Reimbursement of exit operators
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version 26
Author: harmony
Date:   2013-09-23T12:46:07+00:00

   fix malapropism

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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 harvested from the network metrics [XXX] — and the question of the security
 issues that could potentially arise from such a scheme [XXX].
 
-Moritz stipulated that currently the only organizations to qualify for
+Moritz specified that currently the only organizations to qualify for
 reimbursements are those that he personally knows: “so, if you're interested
 in becoming a partner, start social interaction with me”, he wrote. Questions
 or comments regarding these proposals are welcome on the tor-relays list, and

version 25
Author: harmony
Date:   2013-09-23T12:41:46+00:00

   finish reimbursement item/minor language fixes

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 in the form of a financial reimbursement scheme directed at torservers.net's
 partner organizations. Moritz wrote again on the the tor-relays list [XXX]
 to announce that reimbursements are scheduled to begin at the end of this
-month, drawn from a one-time donation by the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
+month, drawn from a one-time donation by the U.S. Government's Broadcasting
+Board of Governors.
 
 The ensuing debate focused both on the technical aspects of reimbursement
 — that is, how best to determine the division of funds based on information
 harvested from the network metrics [XXX] — and the question of the security
 issues that could potentially arise from such a scheme [XXX].
 
-[...TBC]
+Moritz stipulated that currently the only organizations to qualify for
+reimbursements are those that he personally knows: “so, if you're interested
+in becoming a partner, start social interaction with me”, he wrote. Questions
+or comments regarding these proposals are welcome on the tor-relays list, and
+further announcements and discussion about the reimbursement system will be
+published on its dedicated mailing lists [XXX].
 
  [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/turning-funding-more-exit-relays
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-April/001996.html
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002824.html
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002825.html
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002831.html
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-May/002138.html
 
 Tails 0.20.1 is out
 -------------------
@@ -69,7 +77,7 @@
 The Tor Browser is now based on Firefox 17.0.9esr and fixes several important
 security issues [XXX].
 
-Queries for the default search engine, Startpage, are no longer subject to the
+Queries for the default search engine, Startpage, are no longer subject to its
 invasive “family filter” [XXX]. The beta branch also include an updated version of
 HTTPS Everywhere that no longer causes a storm of requests to clients1.google.com,
 an issue reported by many users after the last release [XXX].
@@ -84,27 +92,28 @@
 Tor mini-hackathon at GNU 30th Anniversary Celebration
 ------------------------------------------------------
 
-Nick Mathewson sent an invitation [XXX] encouraging everyone to attend GNU 30th Anniversary 
-Celebration [XXX] this weekend at MIT, where the Tor is going to be featured among few others projects. 
-Part of the event is hackaton so if you like to program, and you're interested in helping with Tor, 
-sign up on the webpage [XXX] and come on by! 
+Nick Mathewson sent an invitation [XXX] encouraging everyone to attend the GNU 30th Anniversary 
+Celebration [XXX] this weekend at MIT, where Tor is going to be featured alongside a few other projects. 
+Part of the event is a hackathon, so if you like to program, and you're interested in helping the Tor
+community, sign up on the webpage [XXX] and come along! 
 
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030154.html
  [XXX] https://gnu.org/gnu30/celebration
  [XXX] https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/event/register?id=10
 
-False alarm about clock skew
-----------------------------
+Clock skew: false alarm
+-----------------------
 
-Small offsets in system time is a good opportunity to fingerprint Tor clients. In
-order to eliminate unnecessary exposure, Nick Mathewson has been working on
+Small offsets in system time offer an attractive opportunity for fingerprinting Tor
+clients. In order to eliminate unnecessary exposure, Nick Mathewson has been working on
 proposal 222 [XXX].
 
-Unfortunately this introduced a bug which revealed itself after the directory
-authority named “turtles” was upgraded. The result is that relays started to warn their
-operators of an implausible clock skew [XXX]. This was indeed a false alarm.
+Unfortunately, this process introduced a bug into the tor daemon which became apparent
+after the directory authority named “turtles” was upgraded. The result was that relays
+started to warn their operators of an implausible clock skew [XXX]. This was, of course,
+a false alarm.
 
-The issue has been quickly worked around and properly fixed a few hours later [XXX].
+The issue was quickly worked around, and fixed properly a few hours later [XXX].
 
  [XXX] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/master:/proposals/222-remove-client-timestamps.txt
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002888.html



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