[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 131, Issue 2

[Ali Druno]

Hi!
I've also noticed suddenly 3-5x more bridge users using the one I run with
a concrete difference in Russian connections highly increased in number of
unique users compared as the others countries which are looking stable.
(Sorry for my bad English, I hope it was comprehensible enough)
Have a nice week!

Nils

Le lun. 6 déc. 2021 à 13:00, <tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org> a
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>    1. Snowflake's package for FreeBSD available (Vin?cius Zavam)
>    2. Is Tor Actually "Blocked" In Russia, or Are Some Users
>       Unblocked for now? (Neel Chauhan)
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> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 19:30:38 +0000
> From: Vin?cius Zavam <egypcio at googlemail.com>
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> Subject: [tor-relays] Snowflake's package for FreeBSD available
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> ol?! :)
> agora temos um pacote para instalar Snowflake em FreeBSD. aproveitem!
>
> tl;dr; we now have a package to install Snowflake on FreeBSD. enjoy!
>
> since the 14th of Nov 2021 we have a port that builds a Snowflake package
> that can be installed on FreeBSD. it gives us all 3 different
> features/functions that we can use Snowflake for:
>
>   - client
>   - proxy
>   - server
>
> don't know Snowflake yet?
>
>   - https://snowflake.torproject.org/
>   - https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/
>   -
>
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake
>
> if you are using the "latest" branch of pkg, try it out! the package is
> called "snowflake-tor"
>
>   # pkg update -f
>   # pkg install -U snowflake-tor
>
> wanna checkout the source of its port?
>
>   -
>
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983
>
> did you know about the "Run a Bridge" campaign?
>
>   - https://blog.torproject.org/run-a-bridge-campaign/
>
> that's it! stay safe and have a great one
> obrigado ]=)
>
>
> --
> Vin?cius Zavam
> keybase.io/egypcio
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> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 15:58:29 -0800
> From: Neel Chauhan <neel at neelc.org>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org, tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: [tor-relays] Is Tor Actually "Blocked" In Russia, or Are Some
>         Users Unblocked for now?
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> Hi tor-relays@,
>
> While I don't live in Russia, nor are my parents from Russia (they're
> from India), today, I noticed these articles that some people noticed
> Tor is blocked in Russia (sorry for being late):
>
>
> https://ntc.party/t/ooni-reports-of-tor-blocking-in-certain-isps-since-2021-12-01/1477
>
> https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-censorship/982
>
> Yet, when I look at Tor Relay Status, I noticed many relays hosted on
> Russian residential ISPs are still online, and only a few aren't:
>
> Moscow City Telephone:
>   *https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS25513
>
> Rostelecom:
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS12389
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS42610
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS34168
>
> Vimpelcom:
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8371
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS8402
>
> MTS:
>   * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS60496
>
> I didn't notice a big reduction in "relay" users on Metrics:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru&events=off
>
> But did see an increase in "bridge" users:
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2021-09-06&end=2021-12-05&country=ru
>
> And most Ooni results still show Tor can connect fine:
>
> https://explorer.ooni.org/search?until=2021-12-06&since=2021-11-29&probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor
>
> I feel it could be possible it's one of the two:
>
>   * Most likely, the censorship rollout is in stages. Some users are
> blocked but other's aren't, where it wasn't rolled out is still
> unblocked.
>
>   * Less likely, but Russia found people could use pluggable transports,
> like HTTPS obfs4 bridges and maybe they found blocking Tor itself is
> ineffective, or trying to block "meek" users ended up blocking Microsoft
> and ASP.NET/Azure-based webapps.
>
> Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Azure as of now. I did
> however interview for a position in the Azure umbrella (not on the CDN
> however).
>
> -Neel Chauhan
>
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