[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
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Wed Oct 8 01:00:04 UTC 2014
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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/40 ===
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version 34
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-10-08T00:24:20+00:00
fix numbering (i think)/small tweaks
--- version 33
+++ version 34
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
“One of the most interesting new features that are now part of ooniprobe
is the ability to generate test decks for the country you are in a way
-that is much easier than before” writes Arturo.
+that is much easier than before”, writes Arturo.
He adds: “As a matter of fact to start contributing useful measurements
-it's just a mater of 5 minutes of setup [3].” So don't be shy on adding
-your measurements to the project!
+it’s just a matter of 5 minutes of setup [3].” So don’t be shy about
+adding your measurements to the project!
[1]: https://ooni.torproject.org/
[2]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2014-October/000171.html
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@
The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
month of September has begun. Juha Nurmi released his report first [4],
-followed by reports from Juha Nurmi [5], Georg Koppen [6], Damian
-Johnson [7], George Kadianakis [8], Matt Pagan [9], Lunar [10], Sherief
-Alaa [11], Leiah Jansen [12], Harmony [13], Pearl Crescent [14], Nick
-Mathewson [15], Karsten Loesing [16], Sukhbir Singh [17], Nicolas
-Vigier [18] (in addition to July [19] and August [20]), Arlo
-Breault [21], J. Todaro [22], and Colin C. [23]
+followed by reports from Georg Koppen [5], Damian Johnson [6], George
+Kadianakis [7], Matt Pagan [8], Lunar [9], Sherief Alaa [10], Leiah
+Jansen [11], Harmony [12], Pearl Crescent [13], Nick Mathewson [14],
+Karsten Loesing [15], Sukhbir Singh [16], Nicolas Vigier [17] (in
+addition to July [18] and August [19]), Arlo Breault [20], J.
+Todaro [21], and Colin C. [22]
[4]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-September/000652.html
[5]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-September/000653.html
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@
[21]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000672.html
[22]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000673.html
-Lunar also reported on Tor help desk [24], Mike Perry for the Tor
-Browser team [25], and Arturo Filastò for OONI [26].
+Lunar also reported on Tor help desk [23], Mike Perry for the Tor
+Browser team [24], and Arturo Filastò for OONI [25].
[23]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000657.html
[24]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-October/000664.html
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Orbot users should rejoice to learn that orWall [27] 1.0.0 has been
-released [28]! orWall will force selected applications through Tor while
+Orbot users should rejoice at the news that orWall [26] 1.0.0 has been
+released [27]! orWall will force selected applications through Tor while
preventing unauthorized applications to have any network access. “Any
-feedback from Tor/Orbot users interest me in order to improve orWall. I
-think the current release is pretty good, but as the main dev I'm maybe
+feedback from Tor/Orbot users interests me in order to improve orWall. I
+think the current release is pretty good, but as the main dev I’m maybe
not that neutral regarding this statement” joked CJ.
[26]: https://orwall.org/
@@ -87,16 +87,16 @@
The OONI project has been “developing a test that allows probes in
censored countries to test which bridges are blocked and which are not”.
-George Kadianakis is seeking help [29] to create interesting
+George Kadianakis is seeking help [28] to create interesting
visualization of the resulting data. He shared a sketch about countries
-and pluggable transports [30] and another one showing time before blocks
-happened [31].
+and pluggable transports [29] and another one showing time before blocks
+happened [30].
[28]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007585.html
[29]: https://people.torproject.org/~asn/bridget_vis/countries_pts.jpg
[30]: https://people.torproject.org/~asn/bridget_vis/tbb_blocked_timeline.jpg
-Nick Mathewson announced [32] the release of Trunnel [33] 1.3. Trunnel
+Nick Mathewson announced [31] the release of Trunnel [32] 1.3. Trunnel
is a a code generator for binary encoders/decoders. Nick adds: “Some
code that it has generated has been merged into the Tor master branch
for the 0.2.6 release series, though that code is not yet in active
@@ -105,65 +105,64 @@
[31]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007580.html
[32]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/trunnel.git
-David Fifield sent a summary [34] of the cost induced by the meek [35]
+David Fifield sent a summary [33] of the costs incurred by the meek [34]
pluggable transport for the month of September 2014. More details are
-included in the email, but costs are currently really low: “$3.85 for
+included in the email, but costs are currently very low: “$3.85 for
App Engine, $4.59 for Amazon, $0.00 for Azure”.
[33]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007576.html
[34]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
-Virgil Griffith shared [36] a tech report on Tor growth. To pick just
-one finding, the Tor bandwidth has been doubling every 13–14 months so
-far.
+Virgil Griffith shared [35] a tech report on Tor growth. To pick just
+one finding, the Tor network’s bandwidth has been doubling every 13–14
+months so far.
[35]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035076.html
-The Knight Foundation is going to fund projects [37] about “the future
-of libraries”. The Library Freedom Project [38] wants to teach
+The Knight Foundation is going to fund projects [36] for “the future
+of libraries”. The Library Freedom Project [37] wants to teach
“librarians about privacy rights, law, and tech tools to protect patrons
-from dragnet surveillance”. It's based on their previous experience [39]
-promoting Tor and other privacy tools in Massachusetts' libraries. Show
+from dragnet surveillance”. It’s based on their previous experience [38]
+promoting Tor and other privacy tools in Massachusetts libraries. Show
them support!
[36]: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/brief.html
[37]: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/submissions/the-library-freedom-project-bringing-privacy-education-and-digital-tools-to-local-communities-through-libraries
[38]: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html
-The US National Science Foundation is seeking input [40] to lay out a
+The US National Science Foundation is seeking input [39] to lay out a
future Privacy Research Strategy. The deadline being October 17th, Roger
Dingledine suggests: “if anybody here has partially written ideas that
they want to put together into a submission, please do!”
[39]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035059.html
- [40]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October/035059.html
-
-Thanks to opi [41] for running a new mirror of Tor Project's website and
-software.
-
- [41]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-October/000713.html
+
+Thanks to opi [40] for running a new mirror of the Tor Project’s website
+and software.
+
+ [40]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-October/000713.html
Easy development tasks to get involved with
-------------------------------------------
-oonibackend [42] is used by ooni, the Open Observatory of Network
-Interference [43], to run in the background and perform tasks like
+oonibackend [41] is used by ooni, the Open Observatory of Network
+Interference [42], to run in the background and perform tasks like
discovering addresses of test helpers and performing measurements that
require a backend system to talk to. When oonibackend was changed to fix
compatibility with Twisted 13.1 it lost its ability to start tor and
-then drop privileges [44]. Arturo suspects that the correct way of doing
+then drop privileges [43]. Arturo suspects that the correct way of doing
this is to place the logic for starting tor inside of preApplication or
startService. But from a quick research he suspects that Twisted does
not support returning Deferreds in there. He also points to two relevant
-Twisted tickets [45, 46]. If you have experience with Twisted and want
+Twisted tickets [44, 45]. If you have experience with Twisted and want
to help debug or even solve this problem, be sure to post your thoughts
or patches to the ticket.
- [42]: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-backend
- [43]: https://ooni.torproject.org/
- [44]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13116
- [45]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5941
- [46]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/6813
+ [41]: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-backend
+ [42]: https://ooni.torproject.org/
+ [43]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13116
+ [44]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/5941
+ [45]: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/6813
Upcoming events
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@@ -188,8 +187,7 @@
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-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, and
-harmony.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar and harmony.
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