[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Tue Nov 5 11:40:08 UTC 2013
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2013/18 ===
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version 39
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T11:00:44+00:00
comment on remaining item
--- version 38
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@@ -202,4 +202,4 @@
Possible items:
- * bananaphone PT https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005694.html https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime https://github.com/leif/bananaphone+ * bananaphone PT https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005694.html https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime https://github.com/leif/bananaphone — i'll write about that next week (Lunar)
version 38
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T10:59:53+00:00
pluggable transport bundles have also been updated
--- version 37
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@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
Erinn Clark released new versions of the Tor Browser Bundle [XXX] on November
1st. The previously “beta” bundles have moved to the “release candidate” stage and
are almost identical to the stable ones, except for the version of the tor
-daemon.
+daemon. A couple of days later, David Fifield also released updated “pluggable
+transport“ bundles [XXX].
The new bundles include all security fixes from Firefox 17.0.10esr [XXX], and
updated versions of libpng, NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere. It also contains
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@
Crescent to update the Tor Browser changes and review the new code base [XXX].
[XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-firefox-17010esr
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/pluggable-transports-bundles-2417-rc-1-pt1-firefox-17010esr
[XXX] https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html#firefox17.0.10
[XXX] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~ff24-esr
version 37
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T10:57:33+00:00
link to blog post instead of mailing list
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@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
Among several other fixes and improvements it restores proper usage of Tor
when used with Thunderbird 24. Be sure to upgrade [XXX]!
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-November/030963.html
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torbirdy-012-our-third-beta-release
[XXX] https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbirdy/torbirdy-0.1.2.xpi
starlight reported [XXX] on running a Tor relays with the daemon
version 36
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T10:56:40+00:00
remove covered item
--- version 35
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@@ -200,5 +200,4 @@
Possible items:
- * bananaphone PT https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005694.html https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime https://github.com/leif/bananaphone
- * TorBirdy 0.1.2 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-November/030963.html+ * bananaphone PT https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005694.html https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime https://github.com/leif/bananaphone
version 35
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T10:19:16+00:00
reword torbirdy stuff
--- version 34
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@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@
Miscellaneous news
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-Jacob Appelbaum announced third beta release of TorBirdy [XXX]. According to Jake it is
-the best release so far and he encourages you to upgrade [XXX].
+The third beta release of TorBirdy has been released [XXX] as version 0.1.2.
+Among several other fixes and improvements it restores proper usage of Tor
+when used with Thunderbird 24. Be sure to upgrade [XXX]!
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-November/030963.html
[XXX] https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbirdy/torbirdy-0.1.2.xpi
@@ -126,14 +127,6 @@
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-October/003187.html
[XXX] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/
-
-antispam06 reported [XXX] that TorBirdy was not working properly with
-Thunderbird 24 and will not force connections to use Tor. Sukhbir Singh
-confirmed [XXX] that users should stick with Thunderbird 17 until an
-updated version of TorBirdy is released.
-
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-October/030913.html
- [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-November/030916.html
Isis Lovecruft has sent two proposals [XXX] for improvements to
BridgeDB. One is finished and addresses the switch to a “Distributed
version 34
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-11-05T09:46:27+00:00
write about the default policy
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[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-November/005725.html
[XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-November/005735.html
+A discussion on the tor-relays mailing list prompted Roger Dingledine to ask
+about changing the current default exit policy [XXX] of the tor daemon. The current
+“restricted exit node” policy has been in place since 2003. As this has surprised
+some operators, switching the default policy to “middle node” is under consideration.
+
+ [XXX] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-November/003240.html
+
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