Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)

For a rundown of the projects work you'll be supporting, catch up with Tor's 2024 in review 🗞️🎇🪩 https://blog.torproject.org/2024-year-in-review

Now is your final chance to ensure that people worldwide can exercise their right to speak, browse, and search with freedom and privacy. Join the thousands of people like you who have made a gift to the Tor Project’s year-end fundraising campaign.
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-yec2024

"Capitalist and technology-enabled surveillance has moved beyond targeting users with ads to targeting their lives. This is why privacy online today means freedom tomorrow. Protecting our privacy secures our fundamental rights for the future."

Read more about how the Tor Project plans to tackle challenges to online privacy and anonymity.
👀 https://blog.torproject.org/tor-in-2024/

We're thrilled to announce the incredible progress towards our fundraising goal, raising 🙌 $246,933 🙌 so far! We are so close to our $300,000 match 👀. Donate today to ensure that your gift will be matched 1:1 and help people worldwide exercise their right to speak, browse, and search with freedom and privacy.
🔗 https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-yec2024

⏳ We're less than 24hrs away from the next #Tor #relay operator meetup tomorrow, December 7th, 19:00 UTC. On the agenda: updates from the WebTunnel campaign, where you can meet us in person next, and Ben Collier's Tor book presentation & discussion💜🟢
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-december-7th-2024-1900-utc/16043

SAVE THE DATE: The next #Tor #relay operator meetup is this Saturday,
December 7th at 19UTC! For the agenda and more info, check out the Tor Forum.
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-december-7th-2024-1900-utc/16043

We're joined by special guest, Ben Collier to discuss his new book:“Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy” https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy

@Schnur oh, thank you for catching that. we changed it a while ago. :)

We are a little more than $158,000 away from our fundraising goal. If everyone in our community gave $2.00, we'd hit our goal in a few hours. If you believe that everyone, everywhere has the right to browse, search, and speak with freedom and privacy, please consider making a $2.00 donation today. #givingtuesday

@themadcodger Thank you!

This #CyberMonday please remember: we’re not Big Tech offering a flash deal on cheap junk. Instead, we are asking everyone to consider giving a $2.00 donation. If everyone in our community gave $2.00, we would hit our year-end goal within a few hours. ⏳💸 https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-yec2024

We're calling on the Tor & Internet freedom community to help scale up WebTunnel bridges. Ever thought about running a Tor bridge? Now is the time! Our goal is to deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of this year to open secure access for users in Russia.🕸️🌉 https://blog.torproject.org/call-for-webtunnel-bridges/

The latest #Arti release introduces memory quota tracking. It allows you to limit how much memory an Arti process uses, especially when hosting an Onion Service. This protects your system from being overwhelmed by malicious or excessive traffic and helps safeguard your anonymity by countering known attacks.
🧅💜 https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_3_0_memquota/

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What does it take to 'mobilize onions'? 📱🧅Tune in to the Community State of the Onion in a couple hours and find out from the Guardian Project (@guardianproject)
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODNtLqD7f8

URGENT FOR US based folks: Tell your reps to vote NO on H.R. 9495! This dangerous bill would give the Trump administration unilateral power to label any non-profit as terrorist supporting and shut it down without due process. Learn more here:
ℹ️ https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-on-hr9495/

If you want to learn more about you can help whistleblowers become more successful, make sure to tune in for #Hushline (@scidsg ) at next week's State of the Onion Community Day.
Hushline is for journalists, employers, educators, and organizers and runs on Tor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODNtLqD7f8

2024 has been a busy year: We've launched Webtunnel, a new type of bridge, to great acclaim, developed a plug-and-play kit that makes it easier to deploy .onion sites, and joined forces with Tails. If you want to dive deeper and see what else we've been up to, tune in for our State of the Onion in just a couple of hours.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HjPdReNmf_g

Over the last few weeks, the Tor Project and relay operators received abuse complaints regarding alleged port scanning activity from their servers. Thanks to a collaborative effort, the source of the spoofed packets has been identified and shut down. https://blog.torproject.org/defending-tor-mitigating-IP-spoofing/

Last week's updates roundup:
- Tor Browser 14.0.1 🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1401/
- Tails 6.9 ⤵️ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-9/
- Arti 1.3.0 🦀 https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_3_0_released/

Earlier this year, we sat down with the @fsfe to talk about how the book encourages young readers to explore programming, digital rights, and open-source ethics. Now it's been released as an animated movie. The story centers on a young girl named Ada, who learns about the value of free software to prevent misuse.

📺 Watch the movie here: https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann//movie

🗞️🎙️ And read the full interview here: https://blog.torproject.org/i-love-free-software-day-interview-fsfe/