Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 2

@eff announced the Tor University Challenge, a project asking universities to start running Tor relays on campus. Find all the resources you need to convince your university and faculty to contribute to safeguarding people's digital rights: https://toruniversity.eff.org/

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!

The new Tails Release is a major version with a new backup feature in Tails Installer, automatic upgrade of the Persistent Storage to LUKS2, and captive portal. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-514/

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.💜

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.

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

Today we announced the Mullvad Browser - built by the Tor Project. A browser allowing anyone to take advantage of the privacy protections of Tor Browser without Tor.
? Learn more here: https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser

We'll use today's Transgender Day of Visibility to celebrate the resilience of trans people in the face of an increasing anti-trans political landscape and raise awareness of the fact that not everybody can or wants to be visible.

Privacy and visibility should be about self-determination and agency. Everyone deserves to be able to choose when, and with whom, they share personal information.

Thrilled to have @mullvadnet as a collaborator and sponsor! Our membership program is designed to strengthen the relationship between private sector & nonprofit organizations to advance our shared mission of a private & uncensored internet for everyone. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/3/3/mullvad-becomes-highest-level-of-tor-member-shallot/

The Tor relay operator online meetup is starting in 10 minutes (19UTC)!

Join us and meet operators running the Tor network.

Agenda details ?

https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-save-the-date-tor-relay-operators-meetup-2023-01-28-19utc/6210

? 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 Ukranian.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/

As a nonprofit, the Tor Project relies on donations, not profit, to fight for privacy online. We don’t harvest or sell your data and we don't charge to use Tor. That means that everyone, everywhere, can use Tor for free.

Because Tor is built on donations, we need those who are able to step up and make a monthly donation to ensure Tor is available for everyone, no matter their circumstances:

https://blog.torproject.org/become-a-monthly-donor/

❄️ Snowflake is helping people in Iran and other countries circumvent Internet censorship.

Let people know you're operating a Snowflake proxy by downloading and printing our Snowflake sticker pack!

https://community.torproject.org/outreach/kit/

New user guide: Circumventing Censorship in Iran with Tor!

If you are having issues connecting to the Tor network from Iran, please try these solutions

https://forum.torproject.net/t/iran-circumventing-censorship-with-tor/4590

? A new Tor stable (0.4.5.14, 0.4.6.12 and 0.4.7.10) was released today with an urgent bug fix (geoip data bug). Tor relay operators, please upgrade as they become available to you.

Full announcement:
https://forum.torproject.net/t/urgent-stable-release-0-4-5-14-0-4-6-12-and-0-4-7-10/4270