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Lunar
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version 29
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-02T12:33:29+00:00
credits so far
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| Event website URL
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, Matt Pagan, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by harmony, Matt Pagan,
+Lunar, and Arlo Breault.
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Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-02T12:30:48+00:00
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Welcome to the thirty-fifth issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what is happening in the Tor community.
Feature XXX
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@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@
The help desk has been asked if Tor can make a website visit appear
to come from China. Tor connections appear to originate from the
-country where the exit relay in use is located. Since Tor is blocked
+country where the exit relay in use is located; since Tor is blocked
in China, there are zero exit relays in China. A visualization of
-the different country-locations of exit relays can be found on Tor's
+the different country-locations of exit relays can be found on Tor’s
metrics page [XXX].
[XXX]: https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html#country-exits-only
@@ -132,38 +132,32 @@
News from Tor StackExchange
---------------------------
-Anony Mouse wanted to know why Facebook shows the location of the last
-access as Baghdad or Dhaka [XXX] instead of the location of the exit
-relay. qbi posted a screenshot showing the location [XXX]. According
-to Facebook this information is based on an approximation. So it
-probably locates all Tor exit relays either in Baghdad or in Dhaka.
+Anony Mouse wanted to know why Facebook shows the location of the
+user’s last login over Tor as Baghdad or Dhaka [XXX], instead of
+the real location of the exit relay. qbi posted a screenshot
+showing this issue [XXX]. According to Facebook, this information
+is based on an approximation, so it is probably the case that it
+locates some Tor exit relays either in Baghdad or in Dhaka.
[XXX]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/3364/88
[XXX]: https://twitter.com/qbi/status/506550322308055040
user3500 wants to contribute to Tor and asks how this can be done as an
inexperienced developer [XXX]. Jens Kubieziel replied with several
-possibilities. This includes reading the volunteer page and TWN,
-especially the section with easy development tasks might be a good start.
-Roya pointed out that any contribution is better than no contribution and
-encouraged the OP to just begin with it. Umut Seven recommended writing
-unit tests.
+possibilities, including reading the volunteer page and Tor Weekly News:
+in particular, the section containing easy development tasks might be a
+good start. Roya pointed out that any contribution is better than no
+contribution, and encouraged user3500 to just get started. Umut Seven
+recommended writing unit tests.
[XXX]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/3961/88
Kras wants to use FoxyProxy in connection with Tor Browser Bundle and asks
-if it is safe to do so [XXX]. At the moment there is only an answer saying
-Yes without an explanation. What is your experience? Is it safe for a user
+if it is safe to do so [XXX]. At the moment, there is only an answer saying
+Yes, without any explanation. What is your experience? Is it safe for a user
to install and use FoxyProxy?
[XXX]: https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/3239/88
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
Upcoming events
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version 27
Author: harmony
Date: 2014-09-02T12:22:39+00:00
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[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007420.html
[XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12130
+Arturo Filastò announced [XXX] the release of version 1.1.0 of oonibackend,
+the tool “used by ooniprobe to discover the addresses of test helpers (via
+the bouncer) to submit reports to (via the collector) and to perform some
+measurements that require a backend system to talk to (via test
+helpers)” [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007450.html
+ [XXX]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/oonibackend
+
+meejah posted [XXX] a list of tasks to be completed in order to bring
+Tor Weather to a deployable state, following the recent rewrite effort
+and the Google Summer of Code project by Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007426.html
+
+Israel Leiva submitted a summary [XXX] of work completed as part of the
+“Revamp GetTor” Google Summer of Code project: “The plan for now is to
+keep doing tests and deploy it asap (hopefully during September).”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007427.html
+
Mike Perry posted [XXX] an updated version [XXX] of the proposal for website
fingerprinting countermeasures which he co-authored with Marc Juarez as
part of the latter’s Google Summer of Code project.
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007417.html
[XXX]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/mikeperry/torspec.git/blob/refs/heads/multihop-padding-primitives:/proposals/ideas/xxx-multihop-padding-primitives.txt
-
-Roger Dingledine alerted [XXX] the tor-mirrors mailing list to the fact
-that the Tor Project website (specifically the distribution directory)
-will shortly be increasing in size to eight or nine gigabytes, as a
-result of the soon-to-be-implemented Tor Browser updater [XXX]. Mirror
-operators will need to ensure that they can provide enough disk space to
-accommodate the change.
-
- [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-September/000675.html
- [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/4234
Lunar gave a talk [XXX] at this year’s DebConf on the effort to build
Debian packages deterministically, which is inspired in large part by
@@ -82,6 +93,29 @@
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007429.html
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
+
+Thanks to P D [XXX] and Daniel Pajonzeck [XXX] for running mirrors of the
+Tor Project website and software!
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-August/000653.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-August/000673.html
+
+Also on the subject of mirrors, Roger Dingledine alerted [XXX] the
+tor-mirrors mailing list to the fact that the Tor Project website
+(specifically the distribution directory) will shortly be increasing in
+size to eight or nine gigabytes, as a result of the soon-to-be-implemented
+Tor Browser updater [XXX]. Mirror operators will need to ensure that they
+can provide enough disk space to accommodate the change.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-September/000675.html
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/4234
+
+whonixqubes announced [XXX} the release of an integrated version of the
+Whonix and Qubes operating systems: “I look forward to helping make
+Qubes + Whonix integration even tighter and more seamless throughout the
+future.”
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-August/034562.html
Tor help desk roundup
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@@ -158,10 +192,5 @@
Possible items:
* Next Tails low hanging fruit session https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2014-August/000024.html
- * Qubes + Whonix https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-August/034562.html
- * Weather future deployement https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007426.html
- * GetTor future deployement https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007427.html
* https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users
* Tor Browser 3.6.5 should be released on Tuesday; changelog https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-qa/2014-September/000456.html
- * New mirror https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-mirrors/2014-August/000673.html
- * oonibackend 1.1.0 released https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007450.html
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