[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Sun Mar 2 17:20:45 UTC 2014
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==== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/9 ====
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version 44
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-03-02T16:21:38+00:00
more misc/small fixes
--- version 43
+++ version 44
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tbb-dev
Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson were among the signatories of an
-open letter published by the EFF which offers ten principles for
+open letter [XXX] published by the EFF which offers ten principles for
technology companies to follow in protecting users from illegal
-surveillance [XXX].
+surveillance.
[XXX]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/open-letter-to-tech-companies
@@ -166,12 +166,26 @@
follow-up study named “Why Johnny Can’t Blow the Whistle”, [XXX] which
focuses on verifying the conclusions of the earlier tests while
exploring a number of other possible usability improvements. The study
-unfortunately occurred before the release Tor Browser version 3 which
-improved usability based on earlier suggestions.
+was, however, carried out before the release of Tor Browser version 3,
+which improved the bundle’s usability based on earlier suggestions.
[XXX]: http://petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-1-usability.pdf
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032205.html
[XXX]: http://www.norcie.com/papers/torUSEC.pdf
+
+Yawning Angel called for help [XXX] in testing and reviewing
+obfsclient-0.0.1rc2, the second obfsclient release candidate this week:
+“assuming nothing is broken, this will most likely become v0.0.1,
+though I may end up disabling Session Ticket handshakes.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006358.html
+
+David Fifield published [XXX] a guide to patching meek, an HTTP
+pluggable transport, so that it can be used to send traffic via Lantern,
+a program which “acts as an HTTP proxy and proxies your traffic through
+trusted friends.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006356.html
Tor help desk roundup
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@@ -221,11 +235,9 @@
* Mozilla dev. reaching out: New API for TorBrowser add-on https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032204.html
* onion-everywhere? https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032220.html
- * obfsclient rc-2 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006358.html
* fingerprinting through default charset #10703
* tor2web proposal https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-February/006344.html
* Disk image instead of zip file for TBB on OS X: #4261 https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/images/TBBDMG.png
* Whonix 8 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-February/032227.html (should be misc: I have yet still to see an analysis by an outsider -- Lunar)
* Progress on a new bridge mode in Tails using Tor Launcher https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-February/005023.html
- * How to use Lantern as a pluggable transport https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-March/006356.html
* Nagios probe for Tor https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-March/004007.html https://github.com/goodvikings/tor_nagios/ and also Lunar's check_tor.py http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/lunar/check_tor.git;a=blob;f=README;hb=HEAD
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