[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
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Wed Sep 11 18:20:06 UTC 2013
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version 11
Author: lunar
Date: 2013-09-11T17:41:49+00:00
add possible item
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@@ -104,4 +104,5 @@
* karsten updated the GeoIP database https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9714
* Improvement of SSL Ciphers of Tor2web https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030003.html
* The lifecycle of a new relay https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
-* Andrew Lewman on Tor, NSA, GCHQ, and QUICK ANT Speculation https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation response to http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/+* Andrew Lewman on Tor, NSA, GCHQ, and QUICK ANT Speculation https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation response to http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/
+* entry guards and linkability https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005423.html
version 10
Author: harmony
Date: 2013-09-11T17:19:12+00:00
broadcast year is obvious
--- version 9
+++ version 10
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@
A certain amount of speculation was provoked by a slide leaked as
part of the ongoing Snowden disclosures and featured in an edition of
the Brazilian current-affairs show 'Fantástico' broadcast on September
-8th, 2013 [XXX], which appeared to show a tab in the alleged NSA/GCHQ
-FLYING PIG surveillance interface labelled 'Query QUICK ANT - Tor events
-QFD'. Users on Reddit [XXX] and Twitter [XXX] began to suggest possible
-attacks on Tor that might be managed through such an interface.
+8th [XXX], which appeared to show a tab in the alleged NSA/GCHQ FLYING
+PIG surveillance interface labelled 'Query QUICK ANT - Tor events QFD'.
+Users on Reddit [XXX] and Twitter [XXX] began to suggest possible attacks
+on Tor that might be managed through such an interface.
Andrew Lewman posted an official response on the Tor Blog [XXX] in which
he reiterated that "it's not clear what the NSA or GCHQ can or cannot do",
version 9
Author: harmony
Date: 2013-09-11T17:14:46+00:00
tried to clarify first paragraph of that item
--- version 8
+++ version 9
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@
Official response to QUICK ANT disclosure
-----------------------------------------
-A certain amount of speculation [XXX] was provoked by a slide featured in
-an edition of the Brazilian current-affairs show 'Fantástico' broadcast on
-September 8th, 2013 [XXX], which appeared to show a tab in the NSA/GCHQ
-FLYING PIG interface labelled 'Query QUICK ANT - Tor events QFD'. The slide
-was leaked as part of the ongoing Snowden disclosures.
+A certain amount of speculation was provoked by a slide leaked as
+part of the ongoing Snowden disclosures and featured in an edition of
+the Brazilian current-affairs show 'Fantástico' broadcast on September
+8th, 2013 [XXX], which appeared to show a tab in the alleged NSA/GCHQ
+FLYING PIG surveillance interface labelled 'Query QUICK ANT - Tor events
+QFD'. Users on Reddit [XXX] and Twitter [XXX] began to suggest possible
+attacks on Tor that might be managed through such an interface.
Andrew Lewman posted an official response on the Tor Blog [XXX] in which
he reiterated that "it's not clear what the NSA or GCHQ can or cannot do",
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@
research to make a better Tor."
[XXX] http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/
+ [XXX] https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/377292928718499841
[XXX] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html
[XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation
[XXX] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AttacksOnOnionRouting
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@
| Event website URL
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by harmony, XXX, and
XXX.
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version 8
Author: harmony
Date: 2013-09-11T17:02:37+00:00
first go at the QUICK ANT item
--- version 7
+++ version 8
@@ -20,6 +20,35 @@
XXX: details about release
[XXX]
+
+Official response to QUICK ANT disclosure
+-----------------------------------------
+
+A certain amount of speculation [XXX] was provoked by a slide featured in
+an edition of the Brazilian current-affairs show 'Fantástico' broadcast on
+September 8th, 2013 [XXX], which appeared to show a tab in the NSA/GCHQ
+FLYING PIG interface labelled 'Query QUICK ANT - Tor events QFD'. The slide
+was leaked as part of the ongoing Snowden disclosures.
+
+Andrew Lewman posted an official response on the Tor Blog [XXX] in which
+he reiterated that "it's not clear what the NSA or GCHQ can or cannot do",
+and that well-known theoretical attacks against the Tor network are clearly
+described on the project's FAQ page [XXX].
+
+He further added that the tool in question was more likely to involve
+"some "Tor flow detector" scripts that let them pick Tor flows out of a
+set of flows they're looking at" than "anything to do with deanonymizing
+Tor users, except insofar as they might have traffic flows from both sides
+of the circuit in their database."
+
+Finally, he remarked that rather than engaging in speculation based on
+limited evidence, "we'd rather spend our time developing Tor and conducting
+research to make a better Tor."
+
+ [XXX] http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/
+ [XXX] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html
+ [XXX] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation
+ [XXX] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AttacksOnOnionRouting
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