[tor-reports] Andrew's July 2014 Monthly Report
Andrew Lewman
andrew at torproject.is
Tue Aug 5 19:55:53 UTC 2014
# In general
- A ton of press interviews about Tails, blackhat related topics, Tor
in general, censorship, helping victims of violence, and NSA targeting
Tor project servers/staff.
- Helped a survivor of cyberstalking with evidence and suggested next
steps to gather more evidence
- Asked to read/review two books on human trafficking; one focused on
labor trafficking and on sex trafficking.
- Helped have a great summer dev meeting in Paris.
- Helped PETS have another successful event in Amsterdam.
- Spent some time talking to very wealthy people in Europe about where
they donate and why.
- Helped move along research into a European entity of some sort
for/with others.
- Made progress on accepting Stripe and integrating it into our site.
- The usual administration overhead when running a 30+ person company.
# Press
Russia Offers a $111K Reward to De-Anonymize Tor
http://www.decryptedtech.com/news/russia-offers-a-111k-reward-to-de-anonymize-tor
by Sean Kalinich on July 28, 2014
Hacking Tor, And What it Means for our Online Privacy
http://www.westernjournalism.com/hacking-tor-and-what-it-means-for-our-online-privacy/
by Daniel Faris on July 25, 2014
Russian government offers huge reward for help unmasking anonymous Tor
users
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2458420/russian-government-offers-money-for-identifying-tor-users.html
by Lucian Constantin on July 25, 2014
Researchers: Lawyers blocked our Black hat demo on de-anonymising Tor
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/is-tor-truly-anonymising-conference-cancelled
by Tom Brewster on July 22, 2014
Black Hat presentation on unmasking Tor users suddenly canceled
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456700/black-hat-presentation-on-tor-suddenly-cancelled.html
by Jeremy Kirk on July 22, 2014
What is the Dark net? FOX28's Tom Powell reports
http://www.fox28.com/story/26014704/2014/07/14/what-is-the-dark-net-fox28s-tom-powell-reports
by Tom Powell, July 14, 2014
Are you on NSA'S Watch list?
http://westmorelandtimes.com/news/12382/11/are-you-on-nsas-watch-list/
by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas, July 11, 2014
Here's One Way to Land on the NSA's Watch List
http://www.propublica.org/article/heres-one-way-to-land-on-the-nsas-watch-list
by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas July 9, 2014
NSA Surveillance Targets Cambridge - based TOR Project
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/NSATor
by Saul Tannenbaum July 8, 2014
NSA might tag you as extremist when you use Tor, other privacy online
services
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/9779/20140708/nsa-might-tag-you-as-extremist-when-you-use-tor-other-privacy-online-services.htm
by Nicole Arce, July 8, 2014
If you can about online privacy, then the NSA cares about targeting you
http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/24102/if-you-care-about-online-privacy-then-nsa-cares-about-targeting-you
by Darlene Storm, July 7, 2014
Les révélations Snowden ont provoqué une vague continue d'intérêt pour Tor
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/07/07/les-revelations-snowden-ont-provoque-une-vague-continue-d-interet-pour-tor_4450747_4408996.html
by Martin Untersinger, July 7, 2014
NSA targets the privacy-conscious
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html
by J. Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, L. Kampf, L. Ryge,
July 3, 2014
# Details
July 31
Active
review q3 report for state
voice of america interview and TB PT help
write up state site visit yesterday
edit less technical blog post about security advisory
complete wire transfers for this week
setup wire transfers for this week
complete state dept checklist for site visit on wednesday
July 29
Active
wired interview
talk to employment lawyer about current state of affairs and govt
contracts
vice/motherboard interview
daily dot interview
swap SAM.gov over to new bank
July 27
Active
review and edit the needfinding framework from second muse
July 26
Active
post 2013 financials
July 23
Active
wire germany funds for july payroll
return call to forensic firm
follow up with ESC
review and edit the viet tan doc from second muse
July 21
Active
get monthly report for bitpay in june
deposit pets 2012 profit check
respond to blackhat talk email
deposit checks from past week
respond to blackhat talk email
Check out http://qz.returnilvirtualsystem.com/features/ and their
usage of Tor
point tails 0-day queries at tails
talk to huffpo about tor
talk to lawyers about liabilities if we go above/beyond what law
mandates
add melissa to jobs list
July 14
Active
call back survivor
call back vice journalist
add controller job desc to web site, so melissa can easier advertise
for it
figure out which arma to invite to basecamp
wire ximin
wire sherief
wire karsten
wire georg k
wire 3bis
wire colin
Follow up with lawyers
sign outstanding q3/q4 contracts for people
send out tshirts to the 5 people who responded to my last -donations
email
July 11
Active
sign waiting contracts
work with melissa to develop job desc for replacement CFO/Controller
write up narrative for state
close ticket #12177
schedule german visit with marta
send pointers to marta about Tor
July 9
Active
follow-up with thorn/citi on datamining for trafficking
write my monthly report
return call from yet another law firm
follow-up with state about plan next week
return Austrian journalist call
July 8
Active
return call for process server about lawsuit
return call Samira about Miami investigation/case
schedule conf call with lawsuit lawyers
follow-up with le monde reporter about interview
follow-up with slate reporter about interview
get monthly report for amazon in june
Talk to Archive.org about archiving all of our released software,
media, etc
July 7
Active
get monthly report for paypal in june
talk to hosting co again about hosting issues
follow-up with state about grant
return relay oper VM asking for help
July 3
Active
finish putting my todo list in basecamp. such transparent. many words.
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Andrew
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