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Now available for download, #UseAMaskUseTor wallpapers:

http://onionshare:sycamore-gating@nkfzff3mtf5nj2jynpikv22tbqnac6nro7iwqhg4rnqxqgnty4yizaid.onion

No donation required to download this package, but if you love these wallpapers, consider our suggested donation of $5.

🗓️ Save the date for the (virtual) State of the Onion 2020: Nov. 16 @ 16:00-18:00 UTC.

We'll discuss Tor's accomplishments in 2020, plus hear from @securedrop, Library Freedom Project, Ricochet Refresh, @OpenObservatory, The Guardian Project and @micahflee.

https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2020

Starting today, your donations to Tor will be matched by a group of donors who believe in the importance of resisting the surveillance pandemic, up to $100K. #UseAMaskUseTor

With this match, your impact will be DOUBLED: https://torproject.org/donate/donate-usetor-md-fot

📱 Time to update: Tor Browser 10.0.3 for Android is out now.

We began working on this project in April with the goal of rebuilding the Tor Browser for Android on Mozilla's new Android Firefox Browser, Fenix. We have successfully achieved this goal: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1003

Happy #InternetDay! Celebrate by taking back your privacy online and using Tor Browser: https://torproject.org/download

Use a mask, use Tor. And now, use your Tor mask! Make a gift of $50 before Dec. 31 and get your very own 😷
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-usetor-md

Use a mask, use Tor.

Today we’re launching our year-end campaign centered on the ways we can care for ourselves and our community: by masking up and using Tor. Anonymity loves company, after all.

Help resist the surveillance pandemic. #UseAMaskUseTor

https://blog.torproject.org/use-a-mask-use-tor

"Anonymity loves Diversity: The Case of Tor"

Save the date: Nov 1, 16:00 - 17:00 (CET).

Our core contributors, @ahf and Georg (GeKo), will speak about how diversity is an essential ingredient for the Tor during the Foss-North event.

https://blog.torproject.org/foss-north-2020

Between November 6 & 9, @torproject and LocalizationLab will host the first edition of the Tor L10n Hackaton. In this localization hackathon, we'll work exclusively on the localization of our latest resource, the Tor Community portal. Join us! #TorL10nHackathon
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-l10n-hackathon

Over the last 2 years, onion service usability has become a primary feature of Tor Browser. The security and improved usability of onion services are the reason we can run an onion adoption campaign like #MoreOnionsPorfavor.

Read our latest blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-brower-onion-services-challenges-opportunities

🔵 Time to update: Tor Browser 10.0 is out now. Tor Browser 10 ships with Firefox 78.3.0esr, updates NoScript to 11.0.44, and Tor to 0.4.4.5. This release includes important security updates to Firefox.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100

And Rabbi Rob, the founder and CEO of Team Cymru.
Join us in giving them both a warm welcome!
https://blog.torproject.org/welcome-new-tor-board-members

Two new Directors have joined the Tor Project's Board!
Chelsea Komlo, cryptography and privacy researcher and engineer.

After months of work, we have a new stable release series! This series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running without relay support, and small bug fixes.

https://blog.torproject.org/node/1921

We are officially launching the Tor Project Membership Program, a new way for nonprofit and private sector organizations to financially support our work. 🎉
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-membership-program

Challenges, priorities, and progress in anti-censorship technology at Tor

Censorship circumvention is a complex and ever evolving problem, and this blog post summarizes our approach in tackling it.

Read more our new blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/anti-censorship-challenges-priorities-progress

PrivChat Chapter #2 - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Censorship Circumvention!

Today, at 17:00 UTC ⏰

Hosted by Cory Doctorow

Participants

Felicia Anthonio (#KeepitOn)
Cecylia (@torproject)
Vrinda Bhandari (Internet Freedom Foundation)
Arturo Filastò (Project Lead & Engineer, @ooni)

📺 https://youtu.be/aOOChyMCZH4

End of #MoreOnionsPorFavor campaign!

Over 60 organisations and individuals - small, medium, and large onions - have reached out to us to be part of this campaign.

Read more:
https://blog.torproject.org/more-onions-end-of-campaign

PrivChat Chapter #2 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Censorship Circumvention
Hosted by Cory Doctorow.

[August 28th ∙ 10:00 AM Pacific Time ∙ 17:00 UTC ∙ 13:00 Eastern Time]

Participants

- Felicia Anthonio (Access Now),
- Vrinda Bhandari (Internet Freedom Foundation ),
- Cecylia Bocovich (Tor Project ),
- Arturo Filastò (OONI )

📺 https://youtu.be/aOOChyMCZH4
🔗 https://www.torproject.org/privchat/

Onion Services

We are considering two options that provide long-term defense against the problem of onion service DoS attacks, while maintaining onion service usability & security:

1. Defenses based on anonymous tokens and
2. Defenses based on Proof-of-Work

Read our blog post about DoS protections
https://blog.torproject.org/stop-the-onion-denial