I managed to get some information on why meek-google got suspended on
App Engine. There was a botnet that used Tor and the public meek
instance for command communication. They shut it down for that reason. I
still haven't gotten any kind of official communication from Google
Cloud Platform.
I wrote a guide on how people can set up their own personal instance.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html
I figure the botnet risk is far less this way, without a single central
service to freeload off of. Though of course far fewer people will be
able to follow these steps than were able to use a default
configuration.
Because I can't see just setting up a new account under the
circumstances, I'm planning to ask the Tor Browser devs to remove the
non-functional meek-google option.
Hello there!
I would like to send this introduction because you will might see Elio
on emails, face to face meetings and on irc.
As you might know, last year we start building our UX team by inviting
individuals and organizations to join and help us - we had our first f2f
meeting in Valencia Dev meeting this year!
The first project that came out of it was to work on a style guideline
for Tor that will help us define the foundation of new designs we
produce. Simply Secure (you might remember Amee at our dev meeting as
well) will help us with this project and have done a lot of work
preparing for it already, like hiring a designer!
They actually hired two because just like when you are coding, is good
to have a reviewer, anything done with a second pair of eyes will be
done better :)
Elio will be the designer working on the Style guidelines and Philip
Lammert, from our community and who has also being involved on building
up our UX team, will be working with Elio as a design reviewer.
A little bit about Elio on his own words:
"I have been involved with Design at Mozilla, Fedora, FSFE, I2P and many
other projects, so I'm excited to help out with branding at Tor. Really,
it's a privilege to work for Tor so I look forward to our time together!
You can find more about me on my personal blog https://elioqoshi.me "
Say hi to Elio if you see him around on irc o/
Cheers,
isabela
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Changes at Mozilla on the mobile front.
----- Original message -----
From: Mark Finkle <mfinkle(a)mozilla.com>
To: "mobile-firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org" <mobile-firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org>,
"firefox-dev" <firefox-dev(a)mozilla.org>
Subject: New Module Owners for Mobile
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:27:53 -0400
Today, I am transitioning module ownership of Firefox for Android and
Firefox for iOS to Margaret Leibovic and Stefan Arentz, respectively.
Margaret and Stefan have been leading the engineering teams on their
respective projects for some time. That alone is enough to transition
the
module ownership, but today is also my last day at Mozilla [1], so I
want
to make sure nothing is left in limbo for the Mobile teams.
Please join me in congratulating and supporting Margaret and Stefan.
Finkle
[1] http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2016/07/leaving-mozilla/
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