Re: [tor-project] Initial roadmap for the anti-censorship team

Hi Vasilis,

Thanks for the feedback, that’s a good list of suggestions that we can consider in future.

I see a bunch of people on IRC often mention that are unable to download Tor
Browser or get tor packages for their distributions.

You're probably already aware, but it’s worth mentioning that, for people unable to download Tor Browser from the website, there is currently the gettor project (https://gettor.torproject.org/) whereby people can email gettor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx including the operating system in the email body. It does not currently return the latest Tor Browser package, but it’s still better than nothing.

Unfortunately this is still on a tpo.org domain, so discovery may be somewhat challenging. Perhaps we can have some sort of smart bot on IRC that tells these users what to do? I’m not an IRC bot developer so maybe this is not a trivial task :)

- How people can access *.torproject.org website mirrors

This is something that we’ve discussed in the past but it can be tricky to provide trusted mirrors.

- Download and verify Tor Browser (when the canonical documentation is blocked)

The download links are listed here: https://github.com/TheTorProject/gettorbrowser but we should probably add some details on how to verify the download

- Allow user to submit an "anonymized" log report; either via a button in Tor
Browser or a helper script in tor package. This will help us enormously to
understand which method (combination of PT/Bridge or something else) worked (if
any) in their case to bootstrap Tor.

This could be a great new feature for Tor Browser.

I’m also adding gaba (the project manager for the anti-censorship team) to this thread so she can keep these in mind.

Thanks!

Pili

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Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams

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On Friday, Jan 04, 2019 at 10:35 AM, Vasilis <andz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Roger Dingledine:
Here is an early brainstorming list of the scope for our future
anti-censorship team. Let us know if we left out a critical category.
And of course once we have actual team members I expect they will take
this initial roadmap and do something even smarter than this list. :)

[...]

Thanks for working on this list.

I see a bunch of people on IRC often mention that are unable to download Tor
Browser or get tor packages for their distributions. The same users usually find
all subdomains of torproject.org blocked. For these scenarios a better plan
should be established specifically on:

- How people can access *.torproject.org website mirrors
- Download and verify Tor Browser (when the canonical documentation is blocked)
- Add/fix gateways to provide Tor Browser and tor packages (Signal, Telegram,
Whatsapp, XMPP, support more email providers, ...)
- Use alternative methods to retrieve tor packages in their distributions (for
instance in Debian package apt-transport-https), common scenario of DPI/keyword
blocking.
- Allow user to submit an "anonymized" log report; either via a button in Tor
Browser or a helper script in tor package. This will help us enormously to
understand which method (combination of PT/Bridge or something else) worked (if
any) in their case to bootstrap Tor.

Cheers,
~Vasilis
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