[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-22

[meskio]

Hey everyone!

Here is our meeting log: 

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-22-15.57.html  

And our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship team meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday, January 12 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 check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at the Tor Project and Tor community.

== 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 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
		* Sponsor 96
			* https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

== Announcements ==

	* No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7

== Discussion ==

	* 

== Actions ==

	* 

== Interesting links ==


== 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 2022-11-24
	Last week:
	    - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
	This week:
	    - continue work on conjure client
	    - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
	    - fixup snowflake!108
	Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-12-14
	Last week:
		- snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs/diff?version_id=ac45648bdc6be923731b40251142ac6fe427d4dd
	Next week:
		- make obfs4 distinguishability reports public
			- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40007
			- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
		- migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
		- try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
	Help with:

meskio: 2022-12-22
   Last week:
       - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008)
       - fix onionsproutsbot bug with journald (onionsproutsbot#47)
       - Circumvention Settings recommends obfs4 bridges in Russia (rdsys-admin!11)
       - Investigate broken descriptors (bridgedb-admin#4)
   Next week/after holidays:
       - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11)
       - publish obfs4 deofuscation bugs

Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08
   Last Week:
		- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
		- [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
		- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
		- [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
     - [Merge Request] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector-admin/-/merge_requests/2)
     - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/merge_requests/3)
   Next Week:
		- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
		

Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15
    Last week:
	    - worked on RACE performance issue
      - [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines"
      - reviewed some MRs

    This week:
	  - Work on the RACE performance issue
	  - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag
	  - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server


hackerncoder: 2022-12-22
    last week:
        - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server
        - worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter
    Next week/after holiday:
        - figure out what makes ooni-exporter put all reports from a country in either success or failure
        - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
        - work on monitoring bridges health

cece: 2022-12-22
    This week:
        - working on creating a dummy WhatsApp bot
    Next week:
        - My bot is not yet working as expected s still trying to figure that out
    Help with:
	     - resources



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