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CITIZENFOUR went on to win the Independent Spirit [XXX] and
Academy [XXX] Awards for Best Documentary Feature over the weekend. The
recognition is richly deserved. Thanks to Laura and her colleagues for
-their extraordinary work over the past few years!
+their extraordinary work over the last two years!
[XXX]: https://citizenfourfilm.com/
[XXX]: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty/
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''86th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from February 17th, 2015 to February 24th, 2015. To be released on February 25th, 2015.''
-'''Editor:'''
+'''Editor:''' Harmony
'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — February 25th, 2015
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Welcome to the eighth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Feature XXX
------------
+Tor 0.2.6-alpha-3 is out
+------------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Nick Mathewson announced [XXX] the third (“and hopefully final”) alpha
+release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. The major user- and operator-facing
+changes in this release include support for AF_UNIX sockets, allowing
+high-risk applications to reach a local Tor without having to enable
+other kinds of networking activity; a new warning for relay operators,
+in order to make it even harder to accidentally run an exit node;
+improvements and additions to the directory system; and much else
+besides.
- [XXX]:
+See Nick’s announcement for the full changelog, and download your copy
+of the source code from the distribution directory [XXX], but note that
+“this is an alpha release”, so “please expect bugs”.
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0263-alpha-released
+ [XXX]: https://dist.torproject.org/
-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].
+CITIZENFOUR wins many awards
+----------------------------
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Laura Poitras’ documentary film CITIZENFOUR [XXX], recording the initial
+encounters between herself, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and the American
+surveillance whistleblower (and sometime Tor relay operator [XXX])
+Edward Snowden, has been decorated at numerous awards ceremonies over
+the past few months [XXX] for its artistic and political achievement.
+
+The filmmakers have been tireless in their activism on behalf of Tor and
+the free software community both in the mainstream press and at community
+conferences [XXX]; upon receiving the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize
+last week [XXX], Laura called attention to the role of these projects in
+the production process: “This film and our NSA reporting would not have
+been possible without the work of the Free Software community that
+builds free tools to communicate privately. The prize money for the
+award will be given to the Tails Free Software project.”
+
+CITIZENFOUR went on to win the Independent Spirit [XXX] and
+Academy [XXX] Awards for Best Documentary Feature over the weekend. The
+recognition is richly deserved. Thanks to Laura and her colleagues for
+their extraordinary work over the past few years!
+
+ [XXX]: https://citizenfourfilm.com/
+ [XXX]: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty/
+ [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour#Awards_and_nominations
+ [XXX]: https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6258_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412282030_-_reconstructing_narratives_-_jacob_-_laura_poitras.html
+ [XXX]: http://www.nationinstitute.org/blog/prizes/4376/%22citizenfour%22_will_receive_the_ridenhour_documentary_film_prize/
+ [XXX]: http://www.filmindependent.org/press/press-releases/2015-film-independent-spirit-awards-winners-announced/
+ [XXX]: http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2015
Miscellaneous news
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-https://satsymposium.org/ submission deadline march 11
+Giovanni Pellerano released [XXX] a security advisory for a bug in
+GlobaLeaks that was introduced on 28th January 2015, and fixed on 16th
+February. The bug could have allowed an attacker to read any file in the
+/var/globaleaks/ directory with the exception of the Tor onion service
+key; if you installed or upgraded your GlobaLeaks instance on or between
+those dates, please see Giovanni’s announcement for more details, and
+upgrade again as soon as possible.
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036969.html
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+Nathan Freitas announced [XXX] Orbot version 15-alpha-4, featuring
+bridge scanning and distribution via QR code, and simpler configuration
+for pluggable transports like meek, among other improvements.
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-February/004261.html
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Rob Jansen announced [XXX] a major new release of Shadow [XXX], the Tor
+network simulation tool. New features include support for running
+Bitcoin software inside the simulation, client activity modelling using
+dependency graphs, and much more.
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008317.html
+ [XXX]: https://shadow.github.io/
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+Yaron Goland updated [XXX] the Tor Onion Proxy libary [XXX], a project
+to “enable Android and Java applications to easily host their own Tor
+Onion Proxies using the core Tor binaries”. This release incorporates
+newer software and a simplified build process.
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036952.html
+ [XXX]: https://github.com/thaliproject/Tor_Onion_Proxy_Library
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+The organizers of the Workshop on Surveillance and Technology issued a
+call for papers [XXX] ahead of their event, which will be held on June
+29th. The deadline for submission is midnight UTC on March 11th; please
+see SAT’s website for topics covered by the workshop and submission
+guidelines.
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://satsymposium.org/
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
+Bendert Zevenbergen relayed [XXX] another call for participation, this
+time in the ACM SigComm2015 workshop on “Ethics in Networked Systems
+Research” [XXX].
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036939.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
+ Feb 25 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Feb 25 16:00 UTC | Pluggable transports meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Mar 01 - 06 | Tor Winter Dev Meeting 2015
+ | Valencia, Spain
+ | https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015WinterDevMeeting
+ |
+ Mar 24 - 25 | Roger and Jake @ RightsCon 2015
+ | Manila, Philippines
+ | https://www.rightscon.org/manila/
-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 Roger
+Dingledine.
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