[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 15 April 2021

Cecylia Bocovich cohosh at torproject.org
Fri Apr 16 14:20:23 UTC 2021


Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-15-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship work meeting pad
--------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday April 15th 16:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)

== Goal of this meeting ==

Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Links to Useful documents ==

    Our anti-censorship roadmap:

    Roadmap:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards

    The anti-censorship team's wiki page:

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home

    Past meeting notes can be found at:

    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/

    Tickets that need reviews:  from sponsors we are working on:

    All needs review tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None

    Sponsor 30

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6

    Sponsor 28

    must-do tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10

    possible tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None

    Public bug-reporting pad:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have
anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to
include.


== Announcements ==



== Discussion ==

    A new reading for reading group?


== Actions ==

    March 2021 monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/s_4y64GAf7y7foF_IKEK


== Interesting links ==

    https://censoredplanet.org/throttling


== Reading group ==

    We will discuss "" on


    Questions to ask and goals to have:

    What aspects of the paper are questionable?

    Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?

    Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?

    Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others
will pick it up?


== Updates ==

Name:
    This week:
        - What you worked on this week.
    Next week:
        - What you are planning to work on next week.
    Help with:

         - Something you need help with.


cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-04-15
Last week:
    - finished setting up new domain fronting provider for snowflake and
moat
    - opened tor#40360
    - reviewed docker-obfs4-bridge!2
    - updated obfs4 bridge docker setup instructions
        -
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/merge_requests/69
    - reviewed gettorweb!5
    - created a survival guide and wiki documentation page for Moat:
        -
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Moat-Survival-Guide
        -
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/wikis/Moat
    - s28 quarterly report
    - added burmese locale for snowflake (snowflake-webext#25)
    - tuned prometheus alerts for bridgestrap
    - worked on report of Tor blocking in Belarus
(censorship-analysis#40002)
    - talked to OONI about their snowflake reachability tests
This week:
    - finish writing and post report on Tor blocking in Belarus
(censorship-analysis#40002)
    - use json for client-broker interaction (snowflake#29293)
    - revise prometheus alerts for snowflake (snowflake#40024)
    - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026
    - configure prometheus alert to be plaintext emails (tpa/team#40214)
    - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days
Needs help with:
    - review of snowflake!31

arlolra: 2020-10-29

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - getting back up to speed

    - follow ups to #33365

    - start on #31201

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-04-15

    Last week:

    - snowflake CDN accounting
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs

    - commented on snowflake broker prometheus exporter
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/32

    - reviewed snowflake broker CDN change
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/33

    Next week:

    - look at PT v2 branch
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/31

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-04-08

    Last week:

    -Been busy with university stuff for the last few weeks

    Next week:

    -Work on bridgebox for rdsys

    -More research on httpt #4

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-3-4

    Last week:

    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14

    Next week:

    - Finish bridgestrap #14

    - Find new issue to work on

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -


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