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👾 The Bug Smash Fund is back for its third year!

Starting August 1, every donation we receive during the month will count towards the Bug Smash Fund 2021.
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-2021

🌉 ❄️ Software Developer for Anti-Censorship Team

This developer position will be an integral part of our Anti-Censorship Team to work of our bridge distribution system, pluggable transports, and other anti-censorship technologies.

https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/

🦀 Software Developer, Rust

We're looking for two developers to join the team that develops and maintains the networking software at the core of the Tor network, keeping it secure and improving it for the future.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-dev/

💻 📱 Software Engineers for Applications Team

We are looking for two developers to join our team to help us with both Tor Browser development and mobile app development.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-engineer-applications-team/

We're hiring!
Work remotely from wherever you are in the world. You'll work with a diverse group of bright and passionate folks committed to fostering internet freedom worldwide.
Check out our open positions! 👇 🧵
https://torproject.org/about/jobs/

The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Every contribution keeps Tor strong. Plus, we accept 10 different cryptocurrencies.
https://donate.torproject.org/

Since 2019, we've smashed 373 bugs with your support with donations made to the Tor Bug Smash Fund!

Here's an update on what we've fixed in the last six months, including bugs on our website, circumvention tools, Tor Browser, and core tor.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-bug-smash-fund-2020-final-update

Join monthly Tor Localization Hangouts this Friday, July 16!

From 12 UTC onwards, the Tor Localization Team meets to translate, share tricks, meet fellow translators, have fun, & learn about localization priorities.

At 13 UTC, we will make a call on BBB. More information:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/wikis/Monthly-Tor-Localization-Hangouts

Excited about the snowflake release and how its already helping hundreds of people around the world to access the internet?

Join the @torproject anti-censorship team and help us to build circumvention tools like snowflake.❄️
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/

We are hiring two engineers to join our applications team @torproject and help us build privacy tools used by millions around the world!

Our Applications Team's main project is the Tor Browser, but we have plans to develop other apps in the near future.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-engineer-applications-team/

We're extremely excited to have ZcashOMG support in building Arti and moving Tor into a new era!

Learn more about Arti, the roadmap, and how you can get involved here: https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

Rust seems like the clearest way out of our bind. It's a high-level language & more expressive than C. It has innovative features that let the language enforce safety properties at compile-time. That's a huge win for us in programming time and for users in security & reliability.

Although C is venerable and ubiquitous, it's error-prone to use, and its lack of high-level features make many programming tasks more complex than they'd be in a more modern language. For us, these problems mean that programming in C is a slow and painstaking process.

We started Tor back around 2002, based on earlier Onion Routing designs from the mid-1990s. Since then, Tor has grown to handle millions of users around the world, and today's Tor is still written in the C programming language.

Some background on why Arti is important for the future of Tor: Tor is a set of protocols to provide anonymity, privacy, and censorship resistance on the Internet. Tor is also a program (in C) that provides client-side and server-side implementations of those protocols.

We're very happy to announce a new era in Tor: Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation.
Thanks to funding from ZcashOMG, we can finally move the Arti project up in our priorities list! https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

Journalists, human rights activists, and citizens in Colombia are facing unprecedented levels of state-sponsored violence, surveillance and censorship as they try to report on the country's ongoing conflict.

https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/digital-rights-in-colombia