Hello, Just a reminder that Tor Demo Day is happening today, in 30 minutes! Gus On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 04:32:12PM -0300, gus wrote: > Dear Tor contributors, > > Next Wednesday, August 25th @ 1600 UTC, we will have a Tor Demo Day! > You're invited! > > This edition will have presentations about Tor & CAPTCHAs, running > relays at universities, helping Tor users, and exit bridges to > circumvent blocked pages. > > To ensure a safe, friendly, and pleasant experience during the event, we > ask all participants to read and follow the Tor Project Code of Conduct: > https://community.torproject.org/training/code-of-conduct/ > > The presentation will be recorded. > > Agenda > ------ > > * "CAPTCHA Monitor: Check if websites block Tor or return CAPTCHAs using > real web browsers!" by Barkin Simsek (woswos) > * "Tor Captcha and Block Monitoring" (GSoC 2021) by Apratim (_ranchak_) > * "Help Tor users" (Outreachy 2021) by Kulsoom > * "HebTor: Bypassing Tor Exit Blocking" by Micah Sherr > * "Operating Tor Relays at Universities" by kantorkel > > Meeting room > ------------ > > https://tor.meet.coop/gus-viu-5wr-7cb > > Full description > ---------------- > > * "CAPTCHA Monitor: Check if websites block Tor or return CAPTCHAs using > real web browsers!" - Barkin Simsek (woswos) > > The CAPTCHA Monitor project aims to track how often various websites > block or return CAPTCHAs to Tor clients. The project aims to achieve > this by fetching webpages via both Tor & other mainstream web browsers > and comparing the results. The tests are repeated periodically to find > the patterns over time. Collected metadata, metrics, and results are > analyzed and displayed on a dashboard to understand how Tor users get > discriminated against while using browsing the internet. > > * "Tor Captcha and Block Monitoring" - Apratim (_ranchak_) > > The Project focuses on tracking top websites from alexa/moz500 ranking > and aims to get a detailed knowledge of the websites partially blocking, > fully blocking or returning Captchas or even websites limiting > functionalities. The results will be then collected and will be used to > find the answers to different metric related questions (Example: What > percentages of websites are blocked by a certain exit node). Further I > hope that the metrics could be useful for the campaign to unblock Tor > and even the DBM (DontBlockMe) Project > > * "Help Tor Project support our users" - Kulsoom Zahra > > During her internship with the Tor Project and Outreachy, Kulsoom Zahra > helped Tor users to bypass censorship, fix their Tor Browsers, updated > the Tor user documentation and much more. She will share with us her > experience on helping Tor users. > > * "HebTor: Bypassing Tor Exit Blocking" - Micah Sherr > > Tor exit blocking, in which websites disallow clients arriving from Tor, > is a growing and potentially existential threat to the anonymity > network. We introduce two architectures that provide ephemeral exit > bridges for Tor which are difficult to enumerate and block. Our > techniques employ a micropayment system that compensates exit bridge > operators for their services, and a privacy-preserving reputation scheme > that prevents freeloading. We show that our exit bridge architectures > effectively thwart server-side blocking of Tor with little performance > overhead. > https://seclab.cs.georgetown.edu/hebtor/ > > * "Operating Tor Relays at Universities" by kantorkel > > We* report on our experience of operating exit relays at two German > universities and provide lessons learned. > > (*) https://arxiv.og/abs/2106.04277 > > -- > The Tor Project > Community Team Lead -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead
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