[tor-reports] Andrew's February 2014

[Andrew Lewman]

# February 2014 Progress Report

1. Continued to work with two victims of intimate partner abuse and
help their legal and support teams understand the usage of technology
in their cases.

2. Helped the success of the Tor Developers Meeting in Iceland.

3. Met with two venture capitalists looking to integrate bitcoin, tor
relays, and provide incentives for running relays.

4. Spent more time with our lawyers reviewing contracts, employee
agreements, policies, annual goals and objectives, and the like for
FY2014. The goal is to tighten up Tor's company operations.

5. Helped ramp up the new contracts and admin person.

6. Worked with a research team from NorthEastern working on legal
jurisdictional arbitrage in Tor path selection, and trust properties
of tor path selection. Helped them think about their research, running
simulations, and encouraged collaboration with the Naval Research Lab.

7. talked to BBC and KQED/NPR about tor

8. presented tor, domestic violence, and technology mashup at
http://codesign.mit.edu

9. reworked the 2014 budget based upon discussions at the dev meeting

10. Talked to very angry person claiming we are holding her data ransom
and demanding bitcoins to unlock it. Turns out they had generic
ransomware and some how attributed it to Tor.

11. Did an hour interview with SVT.se

12. Did a 2.5 hour interview with documentary filmmaker

13. returned phone call to a european rape crisis center interested in
tor and anonymously helping victims

14. wrote up project ideas for MIT codesign team at
https://wiki.ipvtech.is/Projects

15. Helped write proto-proposal to research technology and human
trafficking and the deep web

16. updated the blog software and removed the broken and unfixable
search form

17. talked to survivors on phone about otr and chat so they can train
another organization

18. interviews with bloomberg, nbc universal, al jazeera, techcrunch,
the daily dot, and tech news daily about Tor Instant Messaging and
Point-click-hidden services

19. talked to Al Jazeera about big data and privacy

20. Attended the MIT DiscoTech,
https://surveillance.hackpad.com/BostonCambridge-Countersurveillance-DiscoTech-lpF9SgcyhR2

21. Talked to hosting companies about our current infrastructure ugprade plans,
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/milestone/Upgrade%20Tor%27s%20VM%20Infrastructure

In general, detailed updates can be found at
https://gs.torproject.org/person/phobos if you like to see the mundane
details.

-- 
Andrew
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