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version 10
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-12T00:54:51+00:00
write about mozilla
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@@ -11,6 +11,29 @@
Welcome to the forty-fifth issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
+
+Mozilla announces Polaris Privacy Initiative
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser upon which Tor Browser is based,
+announced [XXX] a series of projects to “accelerate pragmatic and
+user-focused advances in privacy technology for the Web, giving users
+more control, awareness and protection in their Web experiences”. The
+Tor Project is one of Mozilla’s two partners in this Polaris Privacy
+Initiative, and the collaboration will involve looking at the Firefox
+codebase to see if its relationship to Tor Browser and the Tor
+development process can be made more efficient, giving Tor engineers
+more time to focus on other important issues. Mozilla also stated their
+intention to run several high-capacity Tor middle relays, contributing
+to a faster and more stable Tor network.
+
+As Andrew Lewman wrote on the Tor blog, “the Tor Browser is one of the
+best ways to protect privacy on the web and this partnership is a huge
+step in advancing people’s right to freedom of expression online”. Watch
+for more announcements as work on these two fronts continues.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/11/10/introducing-polaris-privacy-initiative-to-accelerate-user-focused-privacy-online
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/partnering-mozilla
Tor and Operation Onymous
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version 9
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-12T00:26:13+00:00
remove unused sections
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Welcome to the forty-fifth issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Tor and Operation Onymous
-------------------------
@@ -102,25 +102,6 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/onionoo-announce/2014/000002.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
-
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
-
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
Upcoming events
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version 8
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-12T00:15:50+00:00
some misc
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Miscellaneous news
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-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Arturo Filastò reported [XXX] on OONI’s ongoing study of Tor bridge
+reachability in different countries, and the recent hackfest on the
+same topic.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ooni-bridge-reachability-study-and-hackfest
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Karsten Loesing offered an update [XXX] on developments in the world
+of Onionoo, including new mirrors and search improvements.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/onionoo-announce/2014/000002.html
Tor help desk roundup
---------------------
@@ -146,11 +147,4 @@
}}}
Possible items:
- * Reports:
- * Isis https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000693.html
- * boklm https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000694.html
- * Damian https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000695.html
- * Karsten https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000696.html
- * SponsorF https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000697.html
- * New developments in Onionoo land https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/onionoo-announce/2014/000002.html
* Polaris Privacy Initiative https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/11/10/introducing-polaris-privacy-initiative-to-accelerate-user-focused-privacy-online/
version 7
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-12T00:02:41+00:00
reports
--- version 6
+++ version 7
@@ -50,15 +50,16 @@
Kadianakis coded [XXX] a patch that allows hidden service operators to
“specify a set of nodes that will be pinned as middle nodes in hidden
service rendezvous circuits”, while the theory behind this continues to
-be discussed [XXX], as does the hidden service authorization feature [XXX]
-and how widely it is used in practice [XXX].
+be discussed [XXX], as does the hidden service authorization
+feature [XXX] and how widely it is used in practice [XXX].
“The attention hidden services have received is minimal compared to
their social value and compared to the size and determination of their
adversaries.” If you are a hidden service operator concerned by these
seizures, or you want to help ensure the possibility of free and
-uncensorable publishing online, see the group blog post for more details,
-and feel free to join in with the discussions on the tor-dev mailing list.
+uncensorable publishing online, see the group blog post for more
+details, and feel free to join in with the discussions on the tor-dev
+mailing list.
[XXX]: https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/global-action-against-dark-markets-tor-network
[XXX]: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/oops-we-counted-wrong-silk-road-dark-net-tor/
@@ -72,17 +73,20 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007735.html
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007744.html
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
------------------------------------------
+More monthly status reports for October 2014
+--------------------------------------------
The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
+month of October continued, with reports from Isis Lovecruft [XXX],
+Nicolas Vigier [XXX], Damian Johnson [XXX], and Karsten Loesing [XXX].
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Roger Dingledine sent out the report for SponsorF [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000693.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000694.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000695.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000696.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-November/000697.html
Miscellaneous news
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version 6
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-11-11T23:55:15+00:00
finish onymous
--- version 5
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@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
claimed number of seized services dropping sharply to 27 [XXX]; more
troublingly, several high-capacity Tor relays with no connection to the
hidden services were also seized [XXX, XXX]. However, in contrast to the
-last major takedown of hidden services [XXX], which was probably
-attributable to carelessness by the operators of a shared hidden service
-hosting platform, there was no obvious single feature linking all of the
-seized sites, leading to concern in the Tor community that an exploit
-against the Tor network may have been responsible for their discovery.
+last major takedown of hidden services [XXX], which involved one
+shared hidden service hosting platform, there was no obvious single
+feature linking all of the seized sites, leading to concern in the Tor
+community that an exploit against the Tor network may have been
+responsible for their discovery.
It could be that these services were deanonymized individually over a
period of months using a variety of means, then all seized at once for
@@ -45,10 +45,20 @@
“Hidden services need some love” has become a familiar refrain in recent
months, and even though the story behind these seizures may remain
-unknown, they have reinvigorated some long-running discussions of
-possible improvements to the security of this important technology.
+unknown, they have reinvigorated some long-running threads on
+improvements to the security of this important technology. George
+Kadianakis coded [XXX] a patch that allows hidden service operators to
+“specify a set of nodes that will be pinned as middle nodes in hidden
+service rendezvous circuits”, while the theory behind this continues to
+be discussed [XXX], as does the hidden service authorization feature [XXX]
+and how widely it is used in practice [XXX].
-[XXX will continue]
+“The attention hidden services have received is minimal compared to
+their social value and compared to the size and determination of their
+adversaries.” If you are a hidden service operator concerned by these
+seizures, or you want to help ensure the possibility of free and
+uncensorable publishing online, see the group blog post for more details,
+and feel free to join in with the discussions on the tor-dev mailing list.
[XXX]: https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/global-action-against-dark-markets-tor-network
[XXX]: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/oops-we-counted-wrong-silk-road-dark-net-tor/
@@ -57,6 +67,10 @@
[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2014-August/000057.html
[XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007730.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007726.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007735.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007744.html
Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
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