[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Tue Jul 8 19:20:06 UTC 2014


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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/27 ===
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version 31
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-07-08T18:36:28+00:00

   further tweaks

--- version 30
+++ version 31
@@ -17,18 +17,18 @@
 On being targeted by the NSA
 ----------------------------
 
-Das Erste has published an article [1] and backing material [2] on how
-the NSA explicitly targets Tor and Tails user through the XKEYSCORE Deep
-Packet Inspection system. Several other media picked up the news and it
-was also discussed through several threads on the tor-talk mailing
-list [3,4,5,6,7,8,9].
+Das Erste has published an article [1] and supporting material [2]
+showing how the NSA explicitly targets Tor and Tails user through the
+XKEYSCORE Deep Packet Inspection system. Several other media picked up
+the news, and it was also discussed in various threads on the tor-talk
+mailing list [3,4,5,6,7,8,9].
 
-The Tor Project's view has been reposted [10] on the blog. To a comment
+The Tor Project’s view has been reposted [10] on the blog. To a comment
 that said “I felt like i am caught in the middle of a two gigantic rocks
-colliding each other”, Roger DingleDine replied [11]: “You're one of the
+colliding each other”, Roger DingleDine replied [11]: “You’re one of the
 millions of people every day who use Tor. And because of the diversity
-of users […], just because they know you use Tor doesn't mean they know
-*why* you use Tor, or what you do with it. That's still way better than
+of users […], just because they know you use Tor doesn’t mean they know
+*why* you use Tor, or what you do with it. That’s still way better than
 letting them watch all of your interactions with all websites on the
 Internet.”
 
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@
 ------------------
 
 An Austrian Tor exit node operator interpreted [20] their conviction in
-a first ruling as “guilty of complicity, because he enabled others to
-transmit content of an illegal nature through the service”. Moritz Bartl
-from Torservers.net [21] commented [22]: “We strongly believe that it
-can be easily challenged. […] We will definitely try and find some legal
-expert in Austria and see what we can do to fight this.”
+a first ruling as judging them “guilty of complicity, because he enabled
+others to transmit content of an illegal nature through the service”.
+Moritz Bartl from Torservers.net [21] commented [22]: “We strongly
+believe that it can be easily challenged. […] We will definitely try and
+find some legal expert in Austria and see what we can do to fight this.”
 
   [20]: https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-may-concern-english-version/
   [21]: https://www.torservers.net/
@@ -124,11 +124,12 @@
 ---------------------
 
 One way to volunteer for Tor is to run a mirror [38] of the Tor Project
-website. Instructions are available for anyone wanting to run a 
-mirror [39]. Mirrors are useful for those who, for one reason or another, 
-can not access or use the main Tor Project website. Volunteers who have 
-successfully set up a synced a mirror can report their mirror to the 
-tor-mirrors mailing list [40] to get it included in the full mirrors list.
+website. Instructions are available for anyone wanting to run a
+mirror [39]. Mirrors are useful for those who, for one reason or
+another, cannot access or use the main Tor Project website. Volunteers
+who have successfully set up a synced a mirror can report their mirror
+to the tor-mirrors mailing list [40] to get it included in the full
+mirrors list.
 
   [38]: https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en
   [39]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en
@@ -138,12 +139,12 @@
 -------------------------------------------
 
 ooniprobe is a tool for conducting network measurements that are useful
-to detect network interference. When ooniprobe starts it should perform
-checks to verify that the config file is correct [41]. If that is not
-the case it should fail gracefully at startup. The ticket indicates
-where this check should be added to the Ooniprobe codebase [42]. If
-you'd like to do some easy Python hacking, be sure to give this ticket a
-try.
+for detecting network interference. When ooniprobe starts it should
+perform checks to verify that the config file is correct [41]. If that
+is not the case, it should fail gracefully at startup. The ticket
+indicates where this check should be added to the Ooniprobe
+codebase [42]. If you’d like to do some easy Python hacking, be sure to
+give this ticket a try.
 
   [41]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11983
   [42]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/ooni-probe.git
@@ -151,11 +152,11 @@
 Upcoming events
 ---------------
 
-     July 15 | Researchers & Practitioners Meetup @ PETS
+ July 15     | Researchers & Practitioners Meetup @ PETS
              | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
              | https://blog.torproject.org/events/researchers-practitioners-meetup-pets-amsterdam
              |
-  July 15-19 | 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
+ July 15-19  | 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
              | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
              | https://petsymposium.org/2014/
 


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version 2
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-07-08T18:39:10+00:00

   add items

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@@ -91,3 +91,5 @@
 Possible items:
 
  * new mirrors: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-July/000623.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-July/000624.html (not yet added though)
+ * Fantasy Tor controller mockup by mrphs https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-July/007115.html https://people.torproject.org/~nima/ux/about-tor.png
+ * Dev meeting roundup?



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