[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Mon Aug 25 15:00:05 UTC 2014


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Author: lunar
Date:   2014-08-25T14:28:02+00:00

   dcf said to just drop the talks are there's no video being released

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-* (''Not sure how to write this, I wish dcf could provide a short writeup -- Lunar'') Tor-related talks at [https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-index.html Def Con 22], August 7–10, 2014 in Las Vegas:
-  * [https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Zoz Don’t Fuck It Up] ([http://dropcanvas.com/d85g8 slides], temporary URL) by Zoz. Zoz talked about how to use Tor and other tools to keep safe while practicing civil disobedience.
-  * [https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Lackey Masquerade: How a Helpful Man-in-the-Middle Can Help You Evade Monitoring] ([https://www.portalmasq.com/portal-defcon.pdf slides], [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/a-portable-router-that-conceals-your-internet-traffic/ Ars Technica]) by Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers, and the Grugq. The talk was different than what the title and abstract imply. They discussed a hardware "travel router" running Tor and pluggable transports (see pages 24 ff. of the slides).
-  * [https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Vedaa Impostor — Polluting Tor Metadata] by Charlie Vedaa and Mike Larsen. The authors presented simple JavaScript programs designed to cause false positives for Tor-detecting rules in network monitors such as Snort, Bro, and XKeyScore. Their programs are at http://impostor.io/.
-  * ''I (dcf) didn't see this one, so I can't say anything about it.''\\
-    [https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Metacortex Touring the Darkside of the Internet. An Introduction to Tor, Darknets, and Bitcoin] by Metacortex and Grifter.
 * Orfox: New Firefox-based Android Private/Secure Browser https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2014-August/003717.html ''let’s make it a feature''
 * ooni meetings https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2014-August/000151.html



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