global-south April 2017

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Tor meetup at Cryptorave 2017 (was: [tor-project] Notes from April 20 2017 Vegas team meeting)
by ilv＠torproject.org 03 May '17

03 May '17

I'm forwarding this message from tor-project. Our proposal for doing a Tor meetup session was accepted at Cryptorave, Vasilis and I will be hosting it, and we'll like to hear ideas of what it will be good to cover there. Complementing what isabela said, I'd like to hear from relay operators in Brazil and their experience. I will also bring several t-shirts and stickers :) ----- Forwarded message from isabela <isabela(a)torproject.org> ----- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:57:41 -0400 From: isabela <isabela(a)torproject.org> To: tor-project(a)lists.torproject.org, intrigeri <intrigeri(a)boum.org>, ilv(a)torproject.org, Vasilis <andz(a)torproject.org> Subject: Re: [tor-project] Notes from April 20 2017 Vegas team meeting On 4/24/17 15:04, sajolida wrote: > Karsten Loesing: >> 4.2) ilv is speaking at Cryptorave > > intrigeri from Tails will be giving a keynote at Cryptrave. > > Putting them in touch just in case they want to do something together :) Vasilis will be there too! Folks wants to organize a Tor meetup there and was asking for some orientation. I am adding him here too so everyone can talk together :) I would love to see some stuff like: 1. are the trainers in Brazil in touch with each other? do they coordinate? if so how? (I know some of these answers but I would love to see what comes out from who is there) 2. relay operators - vinicius (egypcio) is someone who can give some background on what he has done related to that in the northeast of Brazil (this event is at the southeast so it would be nice for them to know more about that work) 3. what is the user persona that they have more demand to train on tor? social movement, journalists, politicians, students? And cases they use tor for. 4. translation - we need to improve some of the translations (specially for orbot and start translating orfox :) 5. talk about global south initiative (email list, irc etc) which has to do with all of the above (I guess) I will stop here :) since I could go on and on. I believe the above can help a lot to get things started and maybe generate another 'meet up' after cryptorave at another opportunity. cheers o/ isabela ----- End forwarded message ----- -- https://ilv.9hz.org

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Re: [global-south] next steps from Tor Meeting
by Gunnar Wolf 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Alison dijo [Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:41:00PM +0000]: > Hola todos/todas! Hi! Just by absolute chance, I entered today to look for some information on the Tor Project site, and came across this list. Immediately subscribed and hooked! :-D I'm answering to a couple of the points in this list's opening mail. > * Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources > (money, people, other materials) > * Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South >(...) > * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths, > BWAuths, etc) Wow! This fits us perfectly. I'm just starting a group effort to get some students to work on Tor in the University I work at (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), setting up at least a relay, but quite probably a full exit node... Lets see how this develops. But so far, it looks like I *have* to be in this list :) > One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting > in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of > the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those > metrics include: > - overall cost > - visa requirements > - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will > consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to > deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we > find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it) Ummm... Well, having a meeting in the Global South (lets be pragmatic: As I understand it, it mostly means "in Latin America") is complicated enough as our distances are way larger than what Europeans are used to (and USA-ians often frown upon international travel, mainly to this "underdeveloped backyard")... Don't you think it's more important to hold this in a place where Latin Americans can travel to more easily? Getting some tens of Europeans or USA-ians won't be too hard. Moving Latin Americans is usually tougher, as money has a different scale and all... > - internet speeds > - possible conference center locations > - Tor's relationship to the local community (the relationship as it > exists, and opportunities to build it more) > > Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out > some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed > a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some > rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting > in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on > that. I jumped upon reading this. As I explained in my previous paragraph, even though I'd *love* it to be in Mexico City, I think we are too much on the edge of the region. Also, our country is not (by far) the most visa-friendly to Latin Americans. But, FWIW, if Mexico were to be chosen (and you don't have any better contacts in here), I can provide (with 90% probability) very good facilities at my workplace, the country's largest university, either at a research institute or at a faculty surrounded by eager students.

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OONI at Cryptorave 2017
by Vasilis 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hello, Together with Coding rights we are going to have a session about OONI and also host a LATAM (Latin America) specific workshop in order to improve the test-lists (https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists) from different countries at this year's Cryptorave (https://cryptorave.org/). You are more than welcome to join us and bring your comments in real or virtually! The original submission (in Portuguese): ### *Listatona OONI contra a censura na web* *Abstract:*A Coding Rights, em parceria com o Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) / Tor Project, vai promover um encontro para expandirmos juntes a lista de sites a serem testados no Brasil e em outros países da Latinoamérica pelas sondas do OONI, que detectam censura, manipulação de tráfego e sinais de vigilância. Se puder, traga seu computador com o Navegador Tor instalado! *Description:* O Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI, "Observatório Aberto de Interferência na Rede" <https://ooni.torproject.org/>) é um projeto de software livre dentro do Tor Project que busca detectar censura na Internet, manipulação de tráfego e sinais de vigilância ao redor do mundo através da coleta e do processamento de medições na rede. Desde o fim de 2012, o OONI coletou milhões de medidas de rede em mais de 90 países ao redor do mundo, jogando luz em múltiplos casos de interferência na rede. Graças ao projeto OONI temos dados abertos <https://ooni.torproject.org/data/> que mostram (inclusive em uma interface de mapa-mundi <https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/>) quais páginas estão bloqueadas em um determinado país. Ao escrever essa descrição, por exemplo, a Noruega bloqueia 4 sites relacionados à bittorrent e troca de arquivos, enquanto a China bloqueia dezenas dos sites testados (como avaaz.org, archive.org, savetibet.org e google.com). Com "sondas" fazendo testes diários no Brasil e uma lista de websites abrangente, o OONI torna possível saber em menos de 24h se algum deles vier a ser bloqueado e ter dados concretos para demonstrar o problema e investigá-lo a fundo, além de montar um registro histórico que pode ser usado por jornalistas e pesquisadores(as). Uma parte importante de identificar a censura é determinar /quais/sites testar. As sondas do OONI espalhadas pelo mundo usam listas mantida pelo Citizen Lab, um laboratório multidisciplinar baseado na Universidade de Toronto. As listas permitem às sondas testarem tanto sites de escopo global (facebook.com, google.com, tumblr.com, mozilla.org...) quanto de escopo do país onde a sonda se encontra. A lista é mantida em um repositório git e é aberta a colaborações de quaisquer grupos e organizações interessada em complementá-las, sendo usada não só pelo OONI como por outros projetos de detecção e medição de censura e outros "controles de informação". A atividade será conduzida por Lucas Teixeira, da Coding Rights, e Vasilis Ververis, membro do OONI e desenvolvedor do Lepidopter, distribuição GNU/Linux que permite usar facilmente Raspberry Pis como sondas para o OONI. METODOLOGIA Vasilis fará uma breve introdução ao OONI. Dividiremos então as pessoas participantes em grupos, primeiro por país e em seguida pelas 31 categorias já definidas pelo Citizen Lab para as URLs <https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/blob/master/lists/00-LEGEND-new_ca…>. A depender do número de pessoas, cada grupo pode pegar N categorias. Buscaremos equilíbrio de gênero dentro dos grupos. Em seguida, cada grupo preparará seu ambiente de pesquisa em um ou mais computadores: - Navegador: para conduzir a pesquisa em motores de busca e abrir os sites para inspecioná-los, o Navegador Tor deve ser usado, especialmente para categorias mais sensíveis (como "Terrorismo e Militantes" ou "Discurso de Ódio"). Para sites menos controversos, por motivos de velocidade ou pelo fato de alguns websites bloquearem ou dificultarem o acesso a usuáries do Tor, um perfil limpo em modo incognito/privado do Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome ou outro navegador atual também poderá ser usado. - Dados: um documento colaborativo hospedado em um EtherCalc (ideal) ou em um Etherpad (software mais estável) vai reunir as categorias, já estruturadas o mais próximo possível do formato final (planilha CSV) que os dados devem ter para que a contribuição seja enviada. Uma vez pronto o ambiente, os grupos passarão a pesquisar e coletar URLs de sites em sua categoria, sempre garantindo que cada URL adicionada na lista está exatamente como aparece em um navegador comum. Se o site se apresenta como HTTPS, então a versão em HTTPS deve estar incluída. Se o site inclui "www" no domínio, também deve constar, etc. Devemos buscar a maior diversidade possível nas URLs para garantir que o viés dos testes seja o mais limitado possível. Assim, dentro de cada categoria devemos buscar URLs que representem o melhor possível toda a gama de websites dentro dela, seja por questões ideológicas, tecnológicas, socioeconômicas, de gênero, etc. Vamos buscar orientar e lembrar os grupos de não se embrenharem muito em cada parte do espectro de sites de uma categoria, como por exemplo encher a categoria "Religião" de sites cristãos evangélicos em detrimento de sites católicos, umbandistas, budistas, ateus e outros. Dito isto, é importante garantir que sites que podem ajudar a contar histórias e montar narrativas interessantes estejam incluídos na lista. É mais útil, por exemplo, otimizar o processo para incluir os sites de grupos de minorias e de dissidentes políticos do que, digamos, pornografia ou jogos de azar. Se um desses últimos for bloqueado, não temos histórias tão interessantes pra contar, mas se sites de minorias forem bloqueados por exemplo há muitas organizações da imprensa e da sociedade civil que gostariam de contar essa história. É claro que é importante incluir sites de pornografia e de jogos de azar também -- porque eles são mais prováveis de serem bloqueados e podem nos ajudar a detectar bloqueios em outros sites -- mas vamos priorizar outras mais relacionadas com direitos humanos e civis. A 20-30minutos do final da atividade, vamos consolidar todas as contribuições dos diferentes grupos e categorias em uma única contribuição coletiva, em nome da CryptoRave 2017, para o repositório git <https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists>. Também faremos um teste local com as contribuições para podermos ver como a sonda conduz os testes sem ter que esperar o ciclo diário de testes das sondas OONI. ### ~Vasilis -- Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 Pubkey: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5FBF70B1D1260162

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Fwd: Re: [community] Tor talk at Open Data Camp Bangalore]
by ilv＠torproject.org 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

FYI ----- Forwarded message from Sukhbir Singh <sukhbir(a)torproject.org> ----- From: Sukhbir Singh <sukhbir(a)torproject.org> To: Tor Community <tor-community-team(a)lists.torproject.org> Subject: Re: [community] Tor talk at Open Data Camp Bangalore Hi, > Hi, > > I will be giving a Tor talk at the Open Data Camp at Google India in > Bangalore, on 22 April. You can find more details here: > > http://odc.datameet.org/odcblr2017 > > (The page should be updated shortly.) > > There are also plans for a CryptoParty on Friday; I will update when I have > more information. > > If anyone has worked with open data or given talks at related events, I am > looking for suggestions on how we can interleave it with privacy and anonymity > and therefore, Tor. The talk (presentation) is available at: https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/talks/odc2017-bangalore.pdf (Happy to share the TeX file and the SVG files in case you are interested.) I also gave a demo where I showed a simple Python script fetching a web page with/without using Tor (the audience was fairly technical) so that people working on open data could use Tor to collect data without revealing their location or identity. There was a lot of discussion on Tor and privacy in general and I was surprised to see that the majority of people in the audience had used/were using Tor. Overall, the event went great though I wish we had more time for a practical hands-on workshop. Maybe next time! -- Sukhbir _______________________________________________ tor-community-team mailing list tor-community-team(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-community-team ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [global-south] next steps from Tor Meeting
by teor 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, I'm Tim (or teor), and I live in Australia. I'm not really part of the global south. But I know what it is like to be a long way away in a different timezone. > Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global > South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting: > > ... > * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths, > BWAuths, etc) I am helping micah and ilv work on this, starting with bandwidth servers. > One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting > in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of > the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those > metrics include: > - overall cost > - visa requirements > - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will > consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to > deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we > find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it) > - internet speeds Tor will be slower anywhere in the global south, because most guards are in North America / Europe. (It amazed me how fast Tor was in Amsterdam compared with Canberra.) But it will be good for people to know what it is like. > Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out > some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed > a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some > rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting > in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on > that. I think South America is a great first place. Some countries in South-East Asia have excellent internet, and cheap and good hotels. But they are a long way away from both the EU and North America. And I'm not sure of the visa requirements. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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initial planning for the Global South Tor meeting
by Alison 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hi all, As discussed on the previous thread, I've begun researching different cities for our first Tor Meeting in the Global South. I've started a pad with my preliminary research: http://5jp7xtmox6jyoqd5.onion/p/GSmeeting (or pad.riseup.net/p/GSmeeting). The text that's highlighted is stuff I intend to research but haven't gotten to yet. Mostly, I've been looking into travel costs and visa requirements. Please feel free to add your feedback about anything I've got here -- whether it's another suggested city (which doesn't need to be in Latin America -- that's just where all the suggestions from the meeting were) or particulars about one of the cities. Thanks for your consideration, Alison

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next steps from Tor Meeting
by Alison 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hola todos/todas! Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting: *Get a Tor Project board member from the Global South: find some names of possible candidates and then send to Linus and Biella (board members) * Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources (money, people, other materials) * Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South * Support local conferences, eg Cryptorave * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths, BWAuths, etc) These were the items that seemed to come up most frequently in our discussion and seem like good starting points for this communication channel. There are more action items and more discussion points here [1]. One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those metrics include: - overall cost - visa requirements - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it) - internet speeds - possible conference center locations - Tor's relationship to the local community (the relationship as it exists, and opportunities to build it more) Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on that. Alison [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Amsterdam/No…

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