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

For a rundown of the 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/

Look at 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

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

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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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

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/

⏳ We're less than 24hrs away from the next #Tor #relay operator meetup tomorrow, September 7th, 19:00 UTC. On the agenda: Network Health updates & proposals, OTF relay operator study findings, presentation by Osservatorio Nessuno (@0n_odv) 💜🟢
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-october-26th-2024-at-1900-utc/15203

⏳ We're less than 24hrs away from the next #Tor #relay operator meetup tomorrow, September 7th, 19:00 UTC. On the agenda: 2024 Elections & Anti-censorship news, Network health updates, OTF relay operator survey and more. 💜🟢
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-september-7th-2024-at-19utc/14203

In this article, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) introduces Tor bridges and explains how this technology can be used by journalists to access Tor.
https://safety.rsf.org/tor-bridges-a-way-to-keep-using-tor-in-countries-that-block-it/

If you're
@rightscon this week, make sure to check out one of our sessions or visit us at our booth through Thursday morning. Check out the full list of events: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-project-sessions-at-rightscon-costa-rica-2023/7754

There is an urgent need for a global stance against the use of technology for oppression. Our latest blog post delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices.
📰🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/surveillance-as-a-service-global-impact-of-israeli-defense-technologies-on-privacy-human-rights/

We're using #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship to officially introduce you to Webtunnel–a new bridge type designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) and evade #cybercensorship. Available now in the stable version of Tor Browser. Learn more: https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/

We are excited to present Tails 6.0, the first version of Tails (@tails) based on Debian 12 (Bookworm) & GNOME 43 bringing important security and usability improvements such as protection against malicious USB devices, easier screenshots & screencasts & more: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-60/

It's #FreeSoftware Day and we sat down with Matthias Kirschner (@kirschner) from FSFE (@fsfe) to talk about his children's book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" Learn more about how a young girl is taking on big tech in our interview: https://blog.torproject.org/i-love-free-software-day-interview-fsfe/ 💜💜

It's #DataPrivacyWeek: join us this Thursday for a virtual live event where we discuss the challenges and opportunities of digital rights advocacy in 2024 with a panel of experts. 📺 Set a reminder here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8ki7zBArs