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Favorite Hi, I’ve just put out a new stable Tor release. It is not a high-urgency item for most clients and relays, but directory authorities should upgrade. Right now, the source is available on the website, and packages should become available one their maintainers build them. Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in…

Favorite Drexel University researchers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are recruiting Tor users for an interview study to see how they use Tor while creating things online—how they write blog posts, edit Wikipedia articles, contribute to open source projects on GitHub, post on discussion forums, comment on news articles, Tweet, write reviews, and many other things. The…

Favorite Welcome to the nineteenth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is out Nick Mathewson announced the first alpha release in the Tor 0.2.7.x series. The most notable new feature in this release is the ability to create, delete, control, and…

Favorite The Tor Project is evaluating our needs and resources as we transition to a new era and begin our search for a new Executive Director. We have decided that we need better systems for sharing information and coordinating the incredibly diverse work of the Tor community. We are recruiting an executive administrator to be…

Favorite Welcome to the twenty-first issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. New faces in the Tor community Since the beginning of the year, the Tor Project, Inc. has made two exciting new additions to its core team. Kate Krauss is Tor’s new Director…

Favorite Welcome to the twentieth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the aleatoric Tor community. Tor 0.2.6.8 is out Nick Mathewson announced a new release in the current stable branch of the core Tor software. Tor 0.2.6.8 stops directory authorities from giving the HSDir flag to…

Favorite We at the Tor Project have long said that Tor is a technology for free expression. Today, that view was endorsed by UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye in a new report on encryption and anonymity. The report, a close look at international law and its relation to technology, concludes that encryption and anonymity technologies…

Favorite Welcome to the hundredth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. United Nations Special Rapporteur endorses Tor David Kaye, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, last week issued his first report to the UN Human Rights Council addressing the relationship…