[tor-commits] [webwml/staging] Dropping the panopticlick project from the volunteer page

[sebastian at torproject.org]

commit 5c39e14c7719cfc3506a297d5422c6972aa77f88
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 13:13:14 2015 -0800

    Dropping the panopticlick project from the volunteer page
    
    Tried to get ahold of Georg to see if he's interested in mentoring this but no
    luck, so dropping the project.
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 getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml |   63 ------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 63 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
index 0a1dd52..2b8362f 100644
--- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
+++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
@@ -422,11 +422,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li>
     privacy and security issues in mainline version.
     </p>
 
-    <p>
-    <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
-    <i><a href="#panopticlick">Panopticlick</a></i><br />
-    </p>
-
     <a id="project-httpseverywhere"></a>
     <h3><a href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere">HTTPS Everywhere</a> (<a
     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git">code</a>, <a
@@ -1432,64 +1427,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on.
     </p>
     </li>
 
-    <a id="panopticlick"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Panopticlick</b>
-    <br>
-    Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>Georg (GeKo)</i>
-    <p>
-
-The <a href="https://panopticlick.eff.org">Panopticlick project by the EFF</a>
-revolutionized how people think about <a
-href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf">browser
-fingerprinting</a>, both by developing tests and metrics to measure browser
-fingerprintability, and by crowdsourcing the evaluation and contribution of
-individual browser features to overall fingerprintability.
-
-    </p>
-    <p>
-
-Unfortunately, the way Panopticlick is designed <a
-href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbutton">makes
-it difficult</a> to evaluate defenses to browser fingerprinting, especially
-for browsers with a relatively small userbase such as Tor Browser. This is
-because any approach we take to reduce fingerprinting automatically makes our
-users more distinct from the previous users who submitted their fingerprint
-data to the EFF. Indeed, it is also impossible to ever expect that users of
-one browser will ever be able to blend in with users of another browser
-(Chrome users will always be distinguishable from Firefox users for example,
-based on feature set alone).
-
-   </p>
-   <p>
-
-To address this, we would like to have <a
-href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6119">our own
-fingerprint test suite</a> to evaluate the fingerprintability of each browser
-feature for users running a specific Tor Browser version. There are also <a
-href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-fingerprinting">additional
-fingerprinting tests</a> we can add beyond those deployed by Panopticlick.
-   </p>
-   <p>
-
-For this project, the student would develop a website that users can
-voluntarily visit to test and record their Tor Browser fingerprint.  The user
-should get feedback on how she performed and the test results should be
-available in a machine readable format (e.g. JSON), broken down by Tor Browser
-version.  In a second step one could think about adding more sophisticated
-tests or supporting other browser vendors that might want to test the
-uniformity amongst their userbase as well. Of course, results from each
-browser would also need to be broken down by both browser implementation and
-version, so that results would only reflect the population of that specific
-implementation.
-
-    </p>
-    </li>
-
     <a id="ahmiaSearch"></a>
     <li>
     <b>Ahmia - Hidden Service Search</b>