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, as should any clients who rely on port-based circuit isolation. Right now, the source is available on the website, and packages should become available once their maintainers build…
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Stem Release 1.4
Favorite Greetings wonderful carbon-based residents of the Internet. I’m pleased to announce the 1.4.0 release of Stem! What is Stem, you ask? For those who aren’t familiar with it Stem is a Python library for interacting with Tor. With it you can script against your relay, descriptor data, or even write applications similar to Nyx…
Tor Browser 5.0a1 is released
Favorite The first alpha release in the new 5.0 series of the Tor Browser is now available from our extended downloads page as well as the distribution directory. Tor Browser 5.0a1 is based on Firefox ESR 31.7.0, which features important security updates to Firefox. In addition to including all of the fixes that were present…
Tor 0.2.6.8 is released
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…
Study: What is the value of anonymous communication?
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…
Tor Weekly News — May 14th, 2015
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…
Tor is recruiting an Executive Administrator (a talented, organized office person)
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…
Tor Weekly News — May 28th, 2015
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…
Tor Weekly News — May 22nd, 2015
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…
UN Special Rapporteur: Anonymity Is Gateway to Free Expression
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…