Favorite Welcome to the twenty-seventh issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Tails 1.4.1 is out The Tails team announced version 1.4.1 of the anonymous live operating system. Most notable in this release is the fix of automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode, and…
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Preliminary analysis of Hacking Team’s slides
Favorite A few weeks ago, Hacking Team was bragging publicly about a Tor Browser exploit. We’ve learned some details of their proposed attack from a leaked powerpoint presentation that was part of the Hacking Team dump. The good news is that they don’t appear to have any exploit on Tor or on Tor Browser. The…
Tor Browser 5.0a3 is released
Favorite The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first alpha released based on Firefox 38 ESR. As such, this release features many updates to Firefox (including several security updates), as well as to our build system and dependencies. For this release, we performed a thorough network and feature review of Firefox 38, and…
Tor Project Launches World-wide Search for New Executive Director
Favorite The Tor Project is pleased to open a world-wide search for our new Executive Director. We have engaged The Wentworth Company to help us with the search process, and invite the broader Tor community and friends to share the job posting (reproduced below) among your networks. Please contact Judy Tabak, contact information below, for…
Tor Browser 4.5.3 is released
Favorite A new release for the stable Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory. Tor Browser 4.5.3 is based on Firefox ESR 31.8.0, which features important security updates to Firefox. Moreover, it contains an updated OpenSSL, NoScript and Torbutton, a fix for a crash bug visible…
Tor Weekly News — July 2nd, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the twenty-sixth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Tor Messenger Third Alpha is out Sukhbir Singh and Arlo Breault put out a third alpha version of Tor Messenger, the Instantbird-based instant messaging client with Tor and Off-the-Record encryption enabled by…
Tor Weekly News — June 24th, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Adopt an onion with Nos Oignons Alongside the thousands of individual Tor relay operators who donate their time, expertise, and resources in order to build a fast and stable Tor network, a…
How We Work
Favorite The Tor Project is driven by ideas. We believe in the right to privacy for every person on the planet. Our community—paid and volunteer—brainstorms projects that embody those ideas, like decentralized hidden messaging systems or ingenious new ways to get uncensored Internet access to people in China. On our public wikis, we make lists…
Tor Weekly News — June 17th, 2015
Favorite Welcome to the twenty-fourth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community. Tor 0.2.6.9 is out Nick Mathewson announced a new release in Tor’s current stable series. Version 0.2.6.9 stops relays without the Stable flag from serving as onion service directories, and raises the…
Tor Browser 4.5.2 is released
Favorite A new release for the stable Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory. Tor Browser 4.5.2 provides a fix for the Logjam attack (https://weakdh.org/) and updates a number of Tor Browser components: Tor to version 0.2.6.9, Torbutton to version 1.9.2.6, NoScript to version 2.6.9.26 and…