[community] TOR101

[TJ]

The University of Colorado also has a MOOC about Tor that you might want
to check out to correct errors/issues with what they have to say. It's
on Coursera if anyone is interested. I've been running through it to
check it out and it's /okay/.

-tj

On 3/19/2019 11:13 AM, gus wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:29:09AM +0000, J.S. Evans wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My name is Jason and I am a training engineer for an open-source software company.
> Welcome! :)
>
>> I have been lurking around the Tor community mailing lists and /r/Tor and /r/onions subreddits for the past few months answering newbie questions. I have also blogged a bit about my experiences with Tor. I would like to take the next step and write a free Intro to TOR online course. The way that I normally build a training course is by producing a slide deck and exercise book and then recording everything as a series of videos. If the student wants to try it for themselves, they can use exercise book to follow along on their own PCs. The course would be produced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
>>
> In Community team we have been working on the training slides and
> they're more or less ready. Our plan is to release it with the new
> community portal.
>
>> This course could be used for onboarding new volunteers or just raising the knowledge level of the general public. Having spent time helping on Reddit, I see lots of people who come there looking for info on "The Dark Web" (a term that I dislike). They have no idea what Tor is except from some clickbait article or YouTube video that makes it sound dangerous and edgy.
>>
> Yep! The "deep web" narrative, that is used to scare people from using a
> secure web browser.
>
>> Here is the outline that I have now:
>>
>> Section 1: Introduction to the Tor Browser
>> What is Tor?
>> What is the Tor Browser?
>> Exercise: Download the Tor Browser
>> How do I use Tor on Android?
>>
> Cool! We have this done. I'll share with you in private.
>
>> Section 2: Introduction to the Tor Service (Linux)
>> Tor Application
>> Torrc
>> Exercise: Review Torrc
>> What is an Onion Service?
>> Exercise: Create Web Service
>> Exercise: Create SSH Service
>>
> I was thinking to create one about onion services only. So we could use it
> as "how to decentralize the web". You could start with this one :)
>
>> Section 3: Introduction to Relays (Linux)
>> What is a Relay?
>> Middle Nodes and Guard Nodes
>> Exercise: Setting up a new middle node
>> Exit Nodes
>> Bridges
>> Exercise: Setting up a new bridge
> This is almost done (the tor network), we need a better design and images :)
>
> About the video recording. Tor already made some videos class in the
> past, but the problem is that it gets outdated really fast:
>
> https://media.torproject.org/video/TBBTraining/
>
>> Input is always appreciated!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jason
> best,
> Gus
>
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