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Apr 16 - 18 | Roger @ 2015 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
| Potsdam, Germany
| http://www.naefrontiers.org/Symposia/GAFOE/21649/44840.aspx
+ |
+ Apr 24 | Roger @ CTIC Privacy Conference
+ | University of Pennsylvania Law School
+ | https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#event_id/48977/view/event
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony and Karsten
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Apr 03 20:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
| #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
| https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-March/000159.html
+ |
+ Apr 16 - 18 | Roger @ 2015 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
+ | Potsdam, Germany
+ | http://www.naefrontiers.org/Symposia/GAFOE/21649/44840.aspx
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony and Karsten
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Crowdsourcing the future (of onion services)
--------------------------------------------
-Onion services (also known as hidden services) are web services hosted
+Onion (or hidden) services are web (or other) services hosted
in the Tor network that have anonymity, authentication, and
confidentiality built in. As George Kadianakis writes, “anything you can
build on the Internet, you can build on hidden services — but they’re
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''91st issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from March 24th, 2015 to March 31st, 2015. To be released on April 1st, 2015.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — April 1st, 2015
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Welcome to the thirteenth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Feature XXX
------------
+Tor Browser 4.0.6 and 4.5a5 are out
+-----------------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Mike Perry announced two new releases by the Tor Browser team. Tor
+Browser 4.0.6 [XXX] contains updates to Firefox, meek, and OpenSSL; it
+is also the last release planned to run on 32-bit Apple hardware. If you
+have a 64-bit Mac and are running Mac OS X 10.8, you can expect to be
+automatically upgraded to Tor Browser 4.5, optimized for your hardware,
+later this month. If you are running OS X 10.6 or 10.7, however, you
+will need to update manually once that version of Tor Browser is
+released, as described in the end-of-life announcement last year [XXX].
- [XXX]:
+Tor Browser 4.5a5 [XXX], meanwhile, includes several exciting security
+and usability updates. Tor Browser’s windows, when resized, will now
+“snap” to one of a limited range of sizes, to prevent an adversary from
+fingerprinting a user based on their unique browser size; the Security
+Slider now offers information about the features that are disabled at
+each security level; and Tor circuits remain in use for a longer period,
+avoiding the errors that can result when websites detect a change in
+your connection. You can read about all these features and more in
+Mike’s announcement.
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+These new releases contain important security updates, and all users
+should upgrade as soon as possible. As usual, you can get your copy of
+the new software using the in-browser updater, or from the project
+page [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-406-released
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45a5-released
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/end-life-plan-tor-browser-32-bit-macs
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
+
+Crowdsourcing the future (of onion services)
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Onion services (also known as hidden services) are web services hosted
+in the Tor network that have anonymity, authentication, and
+confidentiality built in. As George Kadianakis writes, “anything you can
+build on the Internet, you can build on hidden services — but they’re
+better”. A major task for the Tor community in the near future is making
+these important tools more widely available, and usable by groups who
+urgently need them, so George took to the Tor blog [XXX] to solicit ideas
+for future onion service-related projects that could form the basis for
+a crowdfunding campaign. “Long story short, we are looking for feedback!
+What hidden services projects would you like to see us crowdfund? How do
+you use hidden services; what makes them important to you? How you want
+to see them evolve?…Also, we are curious about which crowdfunding
+platforms you prefer and why.”
+
+See the full post for an introduction to onion services, why they matter,
+why a crowdfunding campaign makes sense, and how to join in with your
+own ideas.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/crowdfunding-future-hidden-services
+
+Spreading the word about Tor with free brochures
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Tor advocates play an important role in talking to groups and audiences
+around the world about the ways Tor and online anonymity can benefit
+them. Until now, printed materials offering a simple introduction to the
+basic concepts behind Tor have been hard to come by, so Karsten Loesing
+announced [XXX] a set of brochures, aimed at various audiences, that can
+be freely printed and distributed at Tor talks, tech conferences, public
+demonstrations, or just for fun.
+
+If you don’t have access to printing facilities, you can contact the Tor
+Project [XXX] with details of your event and requirements and receive a
+stack of brochures, possibly in return for a report or other feedback.
+Spread the word, and feel free to screen the Tor animation [XXX] in your
+language while you’re at it!
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/spread-word-about-tor
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/about/contact
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/releasing-tor-animation
+
+Monthly status reports for March 2015
+-------------------------------------
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 March has begun. Damian Johnson released his report first [XXX],
+followed by reports from Tom Ritter [XXX], Philipp Winter [XXX], Pearl
+Crescent [XXX], Nick Mathewson [XXX], Juha Nurmi [XXX], and Isabela
+Bagueros [XXX].
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-March/000782.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-March/000783.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-March/000784.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-March/000785.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000786.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000787.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-April/000788.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Anthony G. Basile announced [XXX] version 20150322 of tor-ramdisk, the
+micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in
+an environment that maximizes security and privacy. This release includes
+updates to Tor, busybox, OpenSSL, and the Linux kernel.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-March/037355.html
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+George Kadianakis used some newly-discovered bridge statistics [XXX] to
+generate visual bandwidth histories, in order “to better understand how
+much bridges are used”. “Questions and feedback on my methodology are
+welcome”, writes George. On the other hand, “we should think about the
+privacy implications of these statistics since they are quite fine-grained
+(multiple measurements per day) and some bridges don’t have many clients
+(hence small anonymity set for them)”, so if you have comments on this
+topic feel free to send them to the thread.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
-
-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]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-March/008541.html
This week in Tor history
------------------------
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+A year ago this week [XXX], Tor developers were discussing the
+possibility of distributing bridge relay addresses via QR code, to avoid
+tricky copy-pastes and input errors that might cause a failed connection.
+Today, you can request some bridge lines from BridgeDB [XXX] and select
+“Show QR code” to be shown…exactly that. Bridge address QR code
+recognition will soon make its way [XXX] into the Orbot stable release,
+as well, so your simple censorship circumvention is no longer dependent
+on finicky touchscreen keyboards!
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2014-April/000039.html
+ [XXX]: https://bridges.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-March/004283.html
Upcoming events
---------------
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
- |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
+ Mar 06 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Mar 06 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Apr 07 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Apr 03 20:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-March/000159.html
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony and Karsten
+Loesing.
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