Deckard1982 @WorldWideWebWizard@social.privacytools.io

Live chat with The Tor Project

>Today, 1800 UTC

Join us for a live chat with ED @isa, UX lead @holantonela, & Browser lead @mfinkel about Tor Browser 9.5 and its new onion service highlights.

Plus ample time for question & answer. See you soon: https://youtu.be/arjXJ2NY--E

Tor Browser 9.5 allows website publishers to advertise their onion service to Tor users by adding HTTP headers. When Onion Location is enabled, Tor users will be prompted to opt-in to upgrade to the onion service.

Now, onion service administrators who want to add an extra layer of security to their website can set a pair of keys for access and control.
You can find how to set up Onion-Location and Client Authorization for your onion service here: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/

Onion service URLS are not easy for humans to remember, which makes it hard for users to discover or return to an onion site. In this release, we're bringing you a proof-of-concept for human-memorable names for SecureDrop
, developed with Freedom of Press
& HTTPSEverywhere.

We have updated Tutanota! You can now check if emails to your account have been blocked as spam under Settings - Global Settings - Rejected emails. If you want, you can then whitelist the sender. Check here for all improvements: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/milestone/118?closed=1

Survey time! On what platform(s) do you use LibreOffice?

When ISPs or governments block access to Tor, our users rely on bridges to connect. With BridgeDB, we tackle the problem of how to get bridges to censored users while making it difficult for censors to get all bridges.

BridgeDB version 0.10.1 is out now: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-010-1

Looking for recommendations on what to watch? We might be biased, but this is definitely our kind of movie list.

https://iapp.org/news/a/put-these-privacy-themed-movies-in-your-quarantine-queue/

Politicians like #Barr need to stop shutting their eyes from the obvious: Encryption, not backdoors, is the best tool we have to protect our kids.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/kids-need-encryption

Communities around the world help to translate and promote LibreOffice in their native languages – and we're super grateful for their help! Check out what they did throughout 2019, and join them for future events: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/27/annual-report-2019-native-language-projects-events-around-the-world/

While posting pictures on a personal Facebook account might seem innocent, "it’s still something that can have pretty far-reaching implications in the non-personal realm."

This Netherlands ruling sets a necessary precedent for protecting minors online. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/court-rules-grandma-must-remove-photos-of-her-grandchildren-from-facebook/ar-BB14tiPX

Good news everyone: We're currently improving our spam filter so that you can see rejected emails. We plan to add a list of rejected emails in the admin settings; you can then set spam rules for the sender address to bypass these reject reasons.

A data breach of millions of people had private info about where they've been, where people met, their social media sites, & more. @_andrew_griffin says the data's origin is so far a mystery.

Check http://HaveIBeenPwned.com  to see if your data was leaked.https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/data-dump-personal-information-breach-crm-a9515931.html

Due to some last minute work on few prepared deployments, we have decided to move the window to tomorrow (Saturday 21:00 CEST)

Sorry for changing plans.

Be aware of the apps your kids use & how their data is being handled.

“For years, TikTok ignored the children’s privacy law, thereby ensnaring perhaps millions of underage children in its marketing apparatus, & putting them at risk of sexual predation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-privacy.html

Dear Disrooters:

Starting from June 8th, we are going to replace the current webmail (powered by Rainloop) with a brand new toy powered by Roundcube.

For the last 4 years we have been using Rainloop for our webmail experience. But due to some missing features and a need to improve the platform's integration, we have decided to re-introduce a webmail environment built on Roundcube.

Roundcube has been widely used for the last 10 years and it provides the modern, fast, simple and reliable solution one could expect. Here are some feature highlights:

A nice responsive Disroot flavored skin (and dark mode)
Better filter support
Email and mailbox archiving
Custom themes
The interface is translated in more than 80 languages.
Drag-&-drop message management: move your messages with your mouse.
Full support for MIME and HTML messages.
Attachment previews: see the images directly within your messages.
Threaded message listing: Display conversations in a threaded mode.
Folders: Manage your folders (add, remove, or hide).
Two factor authentication: add a second level of authentication to your account log-in.

And many more...

In the near future we are planning to integrate it with mailbox encryption as well as Nextcloud (calendars, contacts and attachments) and other services currently provided by Disroot. We think Roundcube will enable us to further improve your email experience.

We hope you'll like the new looks and new features. We sure are looking forward to this switch and future improvements.

!! Warning for 2FA users!!

For those of you that have 2FA enabled on the current webmail, you will have to re-set it up again once the new webmail is up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Today, the pre-Tor onion routing paper, "Anonymous Connections and Onion Routing" by Paul Syverson, David Goldschlag, and Michael Reed from IEEE S&P 1997, received the Test of Time Award by the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Congratulations! 🥳

https://blog.torproject.org/test-of-time-celebrating-onions