[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Wed Feb 11 04:20:03 UTC 2015
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==== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2015/6 ====
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version 17
Author: harmony
Date: 2015-02-11T03:37:53+00:00
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--- version 16
+++ version 17
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
The 2015 Tor UX Sprint
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-Many open-source privacy tools struggle with questions of usability — so
+Many open-source privacy tools struggle with questions of usability: so
much effort goes into ensuring they are secure that few resources are
left over to work on the user experience. But as Linda Lee and David
Fifield write [XXX], “usability is critical to security”: user interface
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@
Issues and “stopping points” (where users find the process too
difficult to continue) discovered during these sessions were noted, and
have been assigned tickets on Tor’s bug tracker [XXX]. For more details
-of the event and its outcome, please see Linda and David’s post; “if you
-are interested in helping to improve the usability of Tor Browser, get
-in touch by email or IRC”.
+of the event and its outcomes, please see Linda and David’s post; “if
+you are interested in helping to improve the usability of Tor Browser,
+get in touch by email or IRC”.
[XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ux-sprint-2015-wrapup
[XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015UXsprint
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
librarian and activist Alison Macrina has been leading a campaign to
educate colleagues and library patrons on the state of digital
surveillance and the use of privacy-preserving software such as Tor and
-Tails. As Alison and April Glaser wrote at the time, “Libraries provide
+Tails. As Alison and April Glaser wrote at the time, “libraries provide
access to information and protect patrons’ right to explore new ideas,
no matter how controversial or subversive” [XXX].
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
run dev sprints, help update documentation, and generally advocate for
tools that help safeguard privacy and anonymity.”
-For more information on the Library Freedom Project or to propose your
+For more information on the Library Freedom Project, or to propose your
own ideas, please see the project’s website. Thanks to Alison and
colleagues for this important work!
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@
Now that Vidalia, the graphical user interface for Tor, has been
completely unmaintained ”for too long to be a recommended solution”,
-Sebastian Hahn removed [XXX] the last links to Vidalia-related content
-from the Tor Project website. If you are still using a version of Tor
-Browser (outside of Tails) that contains Vidalia, it is almost certainly
-old enough to be unsafe, so please upgrade as soon as possible.
-
-Vidalia is still shipped in the latest version of Tails, however, and
+Sebastian Hahn has removed [XXX] the last links to Vidalia-related
+content from the Tor Project website. If you are still using a version
+of Tor Browser (outside of Tails) that contains Vidalia, it is almost
+certainly too old to be safe, so please upgrade as soon as possible.
+
+Vidalia is still shipped in the latest version of Tails, however, so
the Tails team has been working [XXX] on a simple interface [XXX] to
replace one of the most-missed features of the defunct program, the
circuit visualization window. The Tor Browser team have already
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
incurred by meek’s infrastructure last month: “meek has so far been a
smashing success. It’s the #2 pluggable transport behind obfs3 and it
moved over 5 TB of traffic last month. But the costs are starting to get
-serious.” If you have ideas for supporting this important
+serious.” If you have ideas for supporting this vitally important
anti-censorship tool, please see David’s message for more details.
[XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008239.html
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
Tom “TvdW” van der Woerdt wrote a detailed report [XXX] on his
experience implementing a Tor client from scratch in the Go programming
-language following Tor’s specification document. One instance of “GoTor”
+language, following Tor’s specification document. One instance of “GoTor”
briefly broke the Tor relay speed record with 250 megabytes/second, but
Tom ultimately decided that Go isn’t the right language for such a
thing, as its library support doesn’t make it easy enough to do. Thanks
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