Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 10

We sold out our lie detector badges at last year's @defcon. But thankfully, we have restocked for this year! Stop by our vendor booth to get your hands on our latest swag: from clothes to gadgets and badges!

Community and volunteer support is invaluable to the success of our mission. If you want to learn more about our work and recent projects to provide access to the unrestricted internet for people all over the world, you can read all about it here:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/08/02/isabela-fernandes-tor-project-privacy/ 📰
Thanks @helpnetsecurity for shining a spotlight!

"Thanks to investigative reports and volunteer contributions, it is possible to piece together information about the ongoing censorship in Turkmenistan." https://progres.online/en/society/understanding-the-internet-blockade-in-turkmenistan/
If you can, run an obfs4 Tor bridge to help Turkmen citizens connect to the open Internet.

You can help the people in Turkmenistan bypass internet blocks by running a bridge. Find out how: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-help-turkmens-to-bypass-internet-censorship-run-an-obfs4-bridge/7002/8 [3/3]

Tor bridges are still reachable in Turkmenistan, allowing people to bypass internet blocks. we are actively working on expanding the number of bridges we can provide. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2023-04-29&end=2023-07-28&country=tm [2/3]

Turkmenistan's internet is one of the most tightly controlled and censored in the world. @adalatseeker published an article explaining how the "true goal of the Cyber Security Service is not to restrict access to 'dangerous' information, but business on this access...Tor, which could be used for free, was perceived by corrupt officials in the Cybersecurity Service as a competitor." 🧵[1/3]

Only two weeks until #Defcon31. Come and visit us at our @defcon booth and check out our panel on "Internet censorship: what governments around the globe have in store for you" https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html#saturday

Want to know what has been going on at the Tor Project lately. Catch up with all of our latest news and sign up for our newsletter: https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2023-07-25-new-release-tor-browser-125/text/

Congress wants to pass harmful internet bills, impacting human rights, expanding surveillance & censoring the web. Help us oppose legislation weakening encryption, free speech for teens & online resources for abortion seekers and LGBTQ+ communities. Act now: https://www.badinternetbills.com/ #rejectKOSA #BlockEarnIt

Turkmenistan continues to block Tor and anti-censorship tools at a large scale. Tor bridges prove to be one of the few free alternatives to access the open internet. If you have the resources to help, please consider running bridges. How? Take a look: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-help-turkmens-to-bypass-internet-censorship-run-an-obfs4-bridge/7002/7

Junta-te a nós, no próximo dia 29 de Julho (Sábado), a aprender mais sobre auto-defesa digital. Neste evento, vamos aprender com os especialistas da PrivacyLx, como funciona o Tor, e como podemos utilizar o Snowflake. https://privacylx.org/events/2023-07-29-tor-day/ #freespech #PressFreedom

At this year's
@defcon, we "will explore the reasons, the symptoms, and some ideas about how to preserve our ability to set our own priorities. We will offer a holistic and detailed picture of how censorship affects
our work and that of our colleagues"🔗https://forum.defcon.org/node/245764?q=Internet%20censorship:%20what%20governments%20around%20the%20globe%20have%20in%20store%20for%20you

As the Tor Community expands we are refining our process for
presenting & evaluating proposals to the relay operator
community that address operational, policy, and community-related aspects. Learn more here: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-process-for-new-policies-and-proposals-for-the-tor-relay-operator-community-001-community-relay-operator-process-md/8155

Speaking of new icons, the circuit display received its own colorful icon and a dedicated new space. 🚩🚩 Flags make circuit locations easier to identify at a glance and we've rebuilt the whole panel for better compatibility with screen readers.

We've introduced new 🧅 onion site icons with our latest browser release (12.5). As onion services are experiencing more popularity and their use by third-party apps has increased, it was time to give them a new identity.💜

The next Tor Relay Operator Meetup is less than 24hrs away. Add you items to the agenda if you haven't done so yet: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-event-tor-relay-operator-meetup-june-24-2023-18-00-utc/7794

Tor Browser 12.5 is here. Be sure to update and check out our improved accessibility features, updated circuit display, and new onion site icons among other updates... 👀 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-125/

Come and join us #Defcon31 and find out "what governments around the globe have in store for you". Roger Dingledine, Chris Painter, Jeff Moss will discuss the current state of internet censorship. Check out their talk on #internetcensorship here: https://forum.defcon.org/node/245764

The next Tor Relay Operator Meetup will happen on June 24, 2023, at
18.00 UTC. Feel free to add your topics to the agenda: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-event-tor-relay-operator-meetup-june-24-2023-18-00-utc/7794

This is a great series from our friends at @eff on the current state of news media and how big tech has contributed to creating the current landscape dominated by an "oligarchy of gatekeepers" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech