Favorite In February of 2022 we launched a small team within the Tor Project called the Onion Support group. It was initiated with the simple goal to increase onion service adoption among civil society groups, human rights organizations, and news media outlets. What drove us to create the group was realizing that onion services were…
Favorite In 2017, the Tor Project developed and launched its Global South Strategy (GSS) which was conceived as a means to establish closer ties and build better relationships with at-risk communities in the Global South and to understand how we can remove common barriers to the adoption of our services. The goal is to empower…
Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. At the start of this month, we released Arti 1.1.1. Now we’re announcing the next release in its series, Arti 1.1.2. Since our last release, our primary focus has been preparation for onion service support in Arti. Since the last release,…
Favorite Providing support and necessary tools for those who find themselves in places where Tor access is restricted has become one of our top priorities. And as our community continues to grow, we are constantly looking for ways that make it easier and safer to connect with us. That’s why, over the last two years,…
Favorite Tor Browser 12.5a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This release updates Firefox on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux to 102.8.0esr. It includes important security updates to Firefox and GeckoView. There were no Android-specific security updates to backport from the Firefox 110 release. We use…
Favorite Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 12.0.3. Ask for confirmation when starting without unlocking the Persistent Storage. Update our documentation on the Persistent Storage. Fixed problems Avoid crashing when the download of an upgrade is stopped and resumed. (#18435) Solve a possible privilege escalation through a symlink attack. (#19424) Dennis’s Brinkrolf discovered that…
Favorite Tor Browser 12.0.3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This release updates Firefox to 102.8, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. There were no Android-specific security updates to backport from the Firefox 110 release. We use this opportunity to update various components…
Favorite The team that runs the primary Snowflake bridge is raising funds to pay for server operating expenses such as bandwidth, hardware, and maintenance.. You can help the project by donating to the project on Open Collective: Snowflake Daily Operations – Open Collective What follows is an update originally posted on the Open Collective project.…
Favorite Why Tor is slow right now and what we are doing about it. For at least 7 months, several different types of ongoing denial of service (DoS) attacks have affected the Tor network. At some points, the attacks impacted the network severely enough that users could not load pages or access onion services. We…
Favorite Every year, the Tor Project asks our community for financial support during October, November, and December. We do this because we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and your help keeps Tor free for everyone to use. In the new year, we aim to publish clear and transparent results of our fundraising—that’s what this post is all…
