blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

🚗 I'm involved in organising a hackweek in April for https://trustroots.org - kind of an open source and free alternative to couchsurfing etc, that came out of the hitchwiki project (so lots of hitchhikers on it...).

👭 it kind of represents a bit of a reboot of the project, to get more active team again. and we're keen to make it more community-driven...

❓ feel free to ask me questions!

💻 you can register your interest here --> https://trustroots-hackathon.survey.fm/trustroots-hackweek-spring-2020

👍 pls boost!

Wire: “...being transparent in the age of privacy concerns.” - https://nitter.snopyta.org/wire/status/1228020709340794881

Yet you *weren’t* transparent when you became a US-based company and tweaked your privacy policy without letting users clearly know. - https://www.thinkprivacy.io/cutting-the-wire

#Privacy

As more users turn to Tor, the network needs to scale to match the demand.

Thanks to Zcash Foundation for helping fund our scalability solution, Walking Onions, with a grant to help the Tor network scale in a meaningful way.

🧅🚶‍♀️🧅🚶🧅🚶‍♂️🧅
https://grants.zfnd.org/proposals/1642205075

@blacklight447 It's on the roadmap, hopefully we'll get to it by end of the year.

Tracking, surveillance, and censorship are widespread online. Let's #TakeBacktheInternet. Join me and donate to @torproject: https://donate.torproject.org

@blacklight447 We're publishing the DKIM update today, and plan to start this right after.

When ISPs or governments block access to the Tor network, people 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 bridges.

BridgeDB 0.9.3 is out now.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-093

Getting ready to move, hopefully on this weekend 🙂

Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think | EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/why-public-wi-fi-lot-safer-you-think

@kylejj thank you for your donation to PTIO btw, every time I visit our page this cracks me up lmao

The cases against Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald may be models for a crackdown https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/opinion/greenwald-brazil-reporter.html

"...there is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys." 👏
https://www.businessinsider.com/privacy-advocates-say-fbi-not-apple-undermining-public-safety-2020-1

There's a new experimental version of Tor Browser out now.

Tor Browser 9.5a4 picks up security fixes for Firefox 68.4.0esr and 68.4.1esr and updates the bundled NoScript extension to its latest version.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95a4

Stem is a Python library for interacting with Tor. With Stem, you can script against your relay, descriptor data, or write applications like Nyx. Version 1.8 is out now: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-stem-18

Nearly 30 computer security and cryptography experts, including Roger Dingledine, Research Director and Co-Founder of the Tor Project, signed an open letter to the Indian government to reconsider plans that could weaken security and limit the use of strong encryption on internet.

Breaking encryption is not an answer. https://internetsociety.org/blog/2020/01/strong-encryption-is-central-to-good-security-indias-proposed-intermediary-rules-puts-it-at-risk/ #StrongInternet