[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

[Lunar]

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=== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2014/38 ===
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version 15
Author: lunar
Date:   2014-09-22T08:22:13+00:00

   write about TIMB

--- version 14
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@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@
 
  [XXX]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/annee/security-audit-of-safeplug-tor-in-a-box/
  [XXX]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci14/foci14-edmundson.pdf
+
+The upcoming Tor Instant Messenger is based on Instantbird [XXX]. One
+key feature that was identified as missing in the latter is support for
+Off-The-Record encryption. After months of discussions and reviews
+to determine the right programming interface, Arlo Breault got the core
+modifications needed merged [XXX,XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: http://instantbird.com/
+ [XXX]: https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/d2a0c6d324fa
+ [XXX]: https://hg.mozilla.org/users/florian_queze.net/purple/rev/d971cac153ee
 
 Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
 
@@ -107,7 +117,6 @@
 
  * Guardiness: Yet another external dirauth script https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007489.html
  * Introducing Onionoo protocol versions; added here also to raise awareness about this new mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/onionoo-announce/2014/000000.html
- * TIMB news: OTR-related patches merged upstream #11532
  * Leiah's blog redesign mock-up https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13117#comment:1
  * (event) https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2014-September/000037.html next Tails contributors meeting
  * Attack linking Tor circuits  https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/thread.html#7489

version 14
Author: lunar
Date:   2014-09-22T08:15:18+00:00

   write about the safeplug

--- version 13
+++ version 14
@@ -34,6 +34,20 @@
 
 Miscellaneous news
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+
+Released in December 2013, the SafePlug is a $49 router promising its
+users “complete security and anonymity” online by sending all of their
+traffic through Tor. Annie Edmundson from Princeton University released a
+summary [XXX] of the research presented during FOCI’14 [XXX]. The
+authors point out several security problem in the implementation of the
+SafePlug administration interface, and also emphasis more structural
+problems. “The most crucial problem with a torifying proxy is that it
+uses a bring-your-own-browser system, as opposed to a hardened browser,
+and therefore is susceptible to browser-based privacy leaks. This is why
+it’s better to use the Tor Browser Bundle […]” write Annie.
+
+ [XXX]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/annee/security-audit-of-safeplug-tor-in-a-box/
+ [XXX]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci14/foci14-edmundson.pdf
 
 Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
 
@@ -96,7 +110,6 @@
  * TIMB news: OTR-related patches merged upstream #11532
  * Leiah's blog redesign mock-up https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13117#comment:1
  * (event) https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2014-September/000037.html next Tails contributors meeting
- * about the SafePlug https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/annee/security-audit-of-safeplug-tor-in-a-box/
  * Attack linking Tor circuits  https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/thread.html#7489
  * gabelmoo has moved https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-September/034898.html
  * EFF's Tor challenge is over https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/tor-challenge-inspires-1635-tor-relays



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