The Tor Project

Miss us at DEF CON this year? Here's our co-founder, Roger Dingledine, sharing stories about what it's really like to be a Tor dev. 👀

8 months ago | [YT] | 4

The Tor Project

🚀 Tor Browser 12.0 has landed! This release includes an upgrade to Firefox ESR 102, multi-locale bundles for desktop, native support for Apple Silicon, HTTPS by default and redirects to .onion site for Android, plus support for Albanian and Ukrainian. blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/

3 years ago | [YT] | 17

The Tor Project

Tor State of the Onion 2022 - Community edition is happening now, November 16 at 17 UTC!

You'll hear updates from OONI, The Guardian Project, Calyx Institute, Ricochet Refresh, Quiet, Tails and many other projects from our community 🧅.

3 years ago | [YT] | 7

The Tor Project

You’re Invited: State of the Onion 2022 - Wednesday, Nov 9 and Nov 16 (17 - 19 UTC)

It is time for another State of the Onion! This is our annual virtual event where we share updates from Tor Project’s different teams, highlighting their work during the year and what we are excited for the upcoming year. We also have a part of the stream that is dedicated to our community for them to present their amazing work. You can check out our previous State of the Onion streams (2020 and 2021) at our YouTube channel.

This year we will be doing things a bit differently than we have in the past. Instead of having all the presentations happening on the same day, we are organizing two streams on two different days, one for Tor Project’s teams and another for our community. So please make sure to save the date for both events!

Wednesday, Nov 9, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC => State of the Onion with the Tor Project’s teams presenting.
Wednesday, Nov 16, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC => State of the Onion with Tor’s Community presenting.

The State of the Onion will be streamed over our YouTube account.

Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag: #StateOfTheOnion2022 or post your questions and comments in the YouTube chat.

blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2022/

3 years ago | [YT] | 11

The Tor Project

PrivChat #4 - 25th Anniversary of Onion Routing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbiv...
05/26 ∙ 18:00 UTC ∙ 14:00 Eastern ∙ 11:00 Pacific

Celebrate 25 years of onion routing with Tor!

May 31, 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the first public presentation of onion routing in Cambridge, UK at Isaac Newton Institute's first Information Hiding Workshop.

You’re invited to celebrate this special moment with us to talk about the beginnings of onion routing, and how this idea became Tor, and how the Tor Project eventually came to be. We’ll be joined by Paul Syverson, one of the authors of the first onion routing paper, together with the Tor Project co-founders Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson.

We’ll reflect on the first days of the onion routing network at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL). (Back then, onion router connections went through five nodes instead of Tor’s current three-nodes design!) It’s no secret that the concept of onion routing originated at NRL (it’s on our history page), but there is so much more we want to share about how Tor started and where we’ve come in the last 25 years.

Gabriella Coleman --anthropologist, author, and Tor board member--will join us as our host and moderator. Join us for a celebratory edition of PrivChat to commemorate the 25th anniversary of onion routing.

5 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 17

The Tor Project

You're invited: PrivChat hosted by Snowden | Friday 12/11 @ 18:00 UTC

Next Friday, Edward Snowden will host Tor’s third PrivChat, a fundraising livestream event and conversation with human rights defenders + real-life Tor users:

- Alison Macrina (Founder, Library Freedom Project),
- Berhan Taye (Africa Policy Manager and Global Internet Shutdowns Lead, Access Now) and
- Ramy Raoof (Security Labs Technologist, Amnesty International).

What: PrivChat | Tor Advancing Human Rights
When: Friday, December 11 @ 18:00 UTC / 13:00 Eastern / 10:00 Pacific
Where: The Tor Project’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2N3G...

More information: torproject.org/privchat
Photo by Barton Gellman.

5 years ago | [YT] | 21

The Tor Project

We're live in 15 minutes for the State of the Onion 2020 livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWyT....

5 years ago | [YT] | 6

The Tor Project

State of the Onion 2020

Every year people from the Tor Project communities present the State of the Onion, a compilation of updates from our different projects, at conferences around the world. We use this opportunity to talk about highlights of the work we’ve accomplished during the year and what we are excited about in the upcoming year.

With COVID-19 pandemic this year, we didn’t have the chance to ‘tour’ our State of the Onion during any face-to-face conferences. So we decided to bring the State of the Onion to you in a special livestream on November 16 from 16:00 - 18:00 UTC.

We have an awesome, comprehensive program this year, as we want to show off all the work that the Tor Project has been doing as well as highlight the work from people in our community. Isabela Bagueros, our executive director, will host this event and help to provide continuity for everything we’ll discuss.

The State of the Onion will be streamed on the Tor Project's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/IyWyTypRGWQ

Read here the State of the Onion schedule: blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2020

5 years ago | [YT] | 9

The Tor Project

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

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

https://youtu.be/aOOChyMCZH4

Hosted Cory Doctorow

www.torproject.org/privchat/
Every year, internet censorship increases globally. From network level blocking to nation-wide internet blackouts, governments and private companies have powerful tools to restrict information and hault connection between people. Many people, groups, and organizations are doing innovative work to study, measure, and fight back against internet censorship--and they are helping millions of people connect more regularly and safely to the internet. Despite these successes, we're faced with well-funded adversaries that have billions of dollars to spend on censorship mechanisms, and the arms race is ongoing. The second edition of PrivChat with Tor will be about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly that is happening in the front lines of censorship circumvention. In a world where censorship technology is increasingly sophisticated and bought and sold between nations, so is our creativity to measure it and build tools to bypass it, as well as the willingness of people to fight back. But is it enough? What are the barriers facing the people and organizations fighting for internet freedom?

5 years ago | [YT] | 5

The Tor Project

Chapter #1 - Online Privacy in 2020: Activism & COVID-19
June 23th ∙ 1400 EDT ∙ 1800 UTC
Join us for our first PrivChat, a live conversation series w/ experts in the tech and internet freedom fields.
Panelists: Carmela Troncoso, Daniel Kahn Gillmore, Matt Mitchell, hosted by Tor's Roger Dingledine.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyDv...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit most countries around the world, many governments looked for technology to trace the spread of the virus in order to fight the pandemic. Contact tracing practices and technologies raised many questions about privacy, particularly: is it possible to trace the virus while respecting people's privacy? Now amidst the uprising in the U.S. against systemic racism, followed by protests all around the world, the central question about contact tracing, privacy, and surveillance becomes critical. Can the technology used for tracking the virus be used to track protesters? Will it be? For our first ever PrivChat, the Tor Project is bringing you three amazing guests to chat with us about privacy in this context.

More info: torproject.org/privchat

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