[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 4 March 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

On 2021-03-04 1:46 p.m., Cecylia Bocovich wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> Here are our meeting logs:
>
> http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-04-15.58.html
>
> and our meeting pad:
>
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-keep
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Whoops, meant to past the pad contents


Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday March 4th 16:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)

== Goal of this meeting ==

Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Links to Useful documents ==

    Our anti-censorship roadmap:

    Roadmap:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards

    The anti-censorship team's wiki page:

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home

    Past meeting notes can be found at:

    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/

    Tickets that need reviews:  from sponsors we are working on:

    All needs review tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None

    Sponsor 30

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6

    Sponsor 28

    must-do tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10

    possible tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None

    Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it
will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels <-- do we still need this? The
label is 'for anticensorship team'

    Public bug-reporting pad:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep


== Announcements ==

    Snowflake user survey posted

    https://blog.torproject.org/learning-more-about-tor-users

    https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/491436


== Discussion ==


    What would a library of Tor censorship analyses look like?

    Do we dedicate a page to written reports/links?

    Keep the metrics timeline and link to reports from various places

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/MetricsTimeline

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/timeline

    Choose an existing forum as our main place to post writeups


== Actions ==



== Interesting links ==



== Reading group ==

    We will discuss "Investigating Large Scale HTTPS Interception in
Kazakhstan" on 2021-03-04

    https://censoredplanet.org/assets/Kazakhstan.pdf

    https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan

    Questions to ask and goals to have:

    What aspects of the paper are questionable?

    Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?

    Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?

    Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others
will pick it up?


== Updates ==

Name:
    This week:
        - What you worked on this week.
    Next week:
        - What you are planning to work on next week.
    Help with:

         - Something you need help with.


cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-03-04
Last week:
    - reviewed bridgestrap!6
    - s28 meetings
    - wrote a post about snowflake to net4people/bbs
    - updated bridge instructions on GetTor website (gettor-web#1)
    - analyzed more data about Tor blocking in Belarus
(censorship-analysis#40002)
    - so many meetings x_x
    - ticket maintenance
This week:
    - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12)
    - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026
    - write up more info Tor blocking in Belarus
    - figure out snowflake-mobile situation
    - more hiring things
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2020-10-29

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - getting back up to speed

    - follow ups to #33365

    - start on #31201

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-03-04

    Last week:

    - Snowflake CDN bookkeeping

    Next week:

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-03-04

    Last week:

    -More research on httpt #4

    -Still working on theissues with running bridgestrap locally

    Next week:

    -Fix issues regarding bridgestrap

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-3-4

    Last week:

    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14

    Next week:

    - Finish bridgestrap #14

    - Find new issue to work on

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -