[tor-reports] October summary
Jacob Appelbaum
jacob at appelbaum.net
Mon Nov 5 19:35:03 UTC 2012
Hi,
I've been really bad at writing public status reports due to ill health
and being overworked. I'm trying to correct my pattern. I have been sick
for about a month, I hope to improve soon.
In October, I did a lot of stuff relating to a variety of projects:
* Defense of Liberty Award by the Austrian Big Brother Awards
* I accepted on behalf of everyone at Tor and a much larger community
* OONI + MLab integration discussions in Brussels
* We're making progress but it is slow going
* Lots of discussions with the main OONI sponsor
* I helped them to select some security auditors
* Lots of other misc discussions, logistics, etc
* TorBirdy improvements - TorBirdy is getting popular:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/statistics
* tlsdate version 0.2 was tagged and released
* tlsdate version 0.3 is nearly ready for release also
* Lots of tlsdate patches are coming from Google hackers
* basic xmpp-client OTR ui improvements
* We need a type safe implementation of OTR and xmpp
* We have a simple console client that isn't libpurple/pidgin/finch!
* Martus and Tor integration; some Tails related work
* Most of this happened in South Africa
* Various public speaking engagements - highlights include:
* TEDxFlanders
* A panel at the London Frontline Club
* BigBrother awards in Vienna, Austria
* Elevate in Graz, Austria
* libpurple/pidgin auditing
* I advised a few groups about sending funding/audit love upstream
* I need to report some bugs I've found upstream
* Traveling for meetings, speaking engagements, etc.
* Belgium, Holland, England, Ireland, Canada, South Africa
* Germany, Austria, United States
* Spoke extensively with the BIJ/CIJ about partnering with Tor
* We should reach out to them about Journalism related help
* They're located in London - anyone want to take them up?
I've just finished a long meeting with Tactical Tech in Ireland. It
started at the end of October and lasted just under a week. We worked on
a lot of exciting stuff. We hope to also expand on some of these meeting
issues soon. Not the least of which is expanding Security In A Box and
also starting a website/group that reviews, expands, audits and
understands the tools in use.
In November, I have travel/meetings in South America, India and Asia. I
will be on the road for the entire month and well into December. I plan
to do a bunch of OONI work as well as to improve TorBirdy and tlsdate.
All the best,
Jake
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