[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Mon Sep 23 21:40:07 UTC 2013


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version 37
Author: mttpgn
Date:   2013-09-23T21:08:00+00:00

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 SourceForge, which hosts this application's website, attempting to get the project 
 removed. Andrew Lewman has said that lawyers have now been engaged [XXX].
 
-University students continue contacting the help desk to report having difficulties 
+A number of University students continue contacting the help desk to report difficulties 
 circumventing their University's Cyberoam firewall. These students report being unable 
 to access the Tor network even when using the Pluggable Transports Browser with obfs3
-bridges. This issue is ongoing, but a bug ticket has been opened [XXX].
+bridges. One person reported success circumventing the firewall when using an obfsproxy
+bridge on port 443. This issue is ongoing, but a bug report has been filed [XXX].
 
  [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-August/029614.html
 Miscellaneous news
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@
 
 
 This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, harmony, dope457, 
-Jacob Appelbaum, and XXX
+Jacob Appelbaum, Matt Pagan, and XXX.
 
 Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter.
 We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report

version 36
Author: mttpgn
Date:   2013-09-23T20:53:03+00:00

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  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-September/002888.html
  [XXX] https://bugs.torproject.org/9798
 
+Tor Help Desk Roundup
+---------------------
+
+One user contacted the help desk for assistance running torbrowser, an application 
+not affiliated with the Tor Project that attempts to mimic the Tor Browser Bundle. 
+The torbrowser application violates the Tor Project's trademark, and the Tor Project 
+encourages users to avoid it . Multiple Tor Project developers have contacted 
+SourceForge, which hosts this application's website, attempting to get the project 
+removed. Andrew Lewman has said that lawyers have now been engaged [XXX].
+
+University students continue contacting the help desk to report having difficulties 
+circumventing their University's Cyberoam firewall. These students report being unable 
+to access the Tor network even when using the Pluggable Transports Browser with obfs3
+bridges. This issue is ongoing, but a bug ticket has been opened [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-August/029614.html
 Miscellaneous news
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9601
+
+ 
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 Jacob Appelbaum inquired with VUPEN about the Tor Project having the right of first

version 35
Author: dope457
Date:   2013-09-23T20:12:18+00:00

   add GSoC report

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  [XXX] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003696.html
 
 While GSoC entered its final phase, Kostas Jakeliunas reported on the searchable
-metrics archive, and Johannes Fürmann on EvilGenius [XXX].
+metrics archive [XXX], Johannes Fürmann on EvilGenius [XXX], and Cristian-Matei Toader
+on Tor capabilities [XXX].
 
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005483.html
  [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005484.html
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005490.html
 
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