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Author: harmony
Date:   2014-11-26T01:03:16+00:00

   write about longclaw

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 Welcome to the forty-seventh issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the
 weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
 
-Feature XXX
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+A new Tor directory authority
+-----------------------------
 
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Tor, being free software, can be used by anyone to set up their own
+anonymity network, as Tom Ritter demonstrated last month [XXX]; but “the
+Tor network” as we know it today consists of the 6500+ relays voted on
+by nine “directory authorities” (or “dirauths”) [XXX], operated by
+trusted members of the Tor development team and community.
 
- [XXX]:
+Since Mike Perry, a longtime directory authority operator, wished to
+retire his machine, Turtles, without unbalancing the number of
+authorities producing the consensus [XXX], a new authority was brought
+online by the technical activist collective Riseup [XXX]. Named
+“Longclaw” [XXX], the new authority brings an element of geographic
+diversity to the existing set of dirauths, as it is located in Asia
+(Hong Kong, to be precise).
+
+Thanks to Riseup for playing this key role in the operation of the Tor
+network!
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007758.html
+ [XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/src/or/config.c#l823
+ [XXX]: https://metrics.torproject.org/about.html#consensus
+ [XXX]: https://help.riseup.net/
+ [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longclaw
 
 Miscellaneous news
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   [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews
   [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news-team
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-Possible items:
- * Longclaw https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-November/035650.html



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