The Tor Project is Hiring a Developer for OONI!
Are you a software engineer passionate about internet freedom and transparency? The Tor Project is hiring a full-time developer to work on OONI!
What’s OONI?
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software effort of the Tor Project which aims to detect online censorship and traffic manipulation around the world through the collection of network measurements.
OONI is based on free software tests that are designed to measure:
- Blocking of websites
- Systems responsible for censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation
- Reachability of Tor, proxies, VPNs, and other systems
Since 2012, OONI has collected more than 9.5 million measurements across 96 countries, all of which are public and provide evidence and data to back up claims of network manipulation.
Why join OONI?
OONI is in a unique position to bring transparency to technical censorship. You can play a key part in keeping the web free and neutral.
By joining the team, you will play an important role not only in paving the road for a better interference detection system, but you will also be responsible for software run by activists around the world. Your work will help reveal unlawful censorship and surveillance around the world and aid the work of human rights defenders.
Becoming an OONI-tarian
As a core OONI developer, you will contribute to some of our active development efforts, including:
- Supporting advocacy groups in remotely controlling measurements from all the OONI probes they operate
- Re-engineering OONI’s data processing pipeline to allow for easier analysis
- Improving ooni-probe
- Improving ooni-backend
These tasks will increase the impact of the millions of measurements that OONI is currently hosting, the hundreds of vantage points around the world, and the future of censorship measurement.
Learn more and apply to join the OONI team as a core developer here.
Sometimes TorBrowser makes
Sometimes TorBrowser makes connection to 93.184.220.29 without tor.exe.
Check this:
ocsp.digicert.com
and make TorBrowser better.
> ocsp.digicert.com Forgive
> ocsp.digicert.com
Forgive me if I misunderstood (your post contains few details), but it sounds to me as if you might have noticed an unexpected connection to oscp.digicert.com when you were connecting to another site using Tor Browser, such as https:twitter.com. But if that other site was protected by https, Tor Browser *should* connect to some Certificate Authority site (digicert is one of the biggest) in order to fetch the certificate used to verify that you were connecting to the genuine twitter.com and not an FBI phishing site masquerading as twitter.com.
Tor Browser "should" fetch
Tor Browser "should" fetch by tor.exe but firefox.exe shouldn't connect in clearnet!
Firefox.exe should be blocked in clearnet!
I am so glad you've been
I am so glad you've been able to find the funds to do this!
So many urgent things need to be addressed, but this is certainly one of the most important. I hope this will ultimately help endangered people/journalists everywhere.
Huge item of meta-news, of particular interest to people in Brazil who need to read what the Snowden trove reveals about the cynical and outrageous USG manipulation of political/economic events in their country:
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broadening-access-…
The Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
Glenn Greenwald
16 May 2016
> From the time we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded. As time has gone on, The Intercept has sought out new ways to get documents from the archive into the hands of the public, consistent with the public interest as originally conceived.
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> Today, The Intercept is announcing two innovations in how we report on and publish these materials. Both measures are designed to ensure that reporting on the archive continues in as expeditious and informative a manner as possible, in accordance with the agreements we entered into with our source about how these materials would be disclosed, a framework that he, and we, have publicly described on numerous occasions.
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> The first measure involves the publication of large batches of documents.
> ...
> The other innovation is our ability to invite outside journalists, including from foreign media outlets, to work with us to explore the full Snowden archive.
Great example of the kind of news which must not censored by any government, and should be read by people everywhere, because it's that important to their understanding of their personal situation.