Events

Chaos Computer Congress 2026 (40C3) is the largest European hacker party, conference and platform for technology, society and civil rights.

Meet members of the Tor Project's network, anticensorship, and outreach teams who'll be participating, presenting, and selling exclusive merchandise.

Get your tickets, stop by, say hi: https://events.ccc.de/category/40c3/

The State of the Onion is the Tor Project's annual virtual fundraiser where we share updates from Tor Project’s teams and community, highlighting Tor's work and the impact it has made across the globe during the year.

December 2nd, 2026 – News & updates from the Tor Project

Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the Tor Project. Get a first look at our work to bring Signal to Tails, hear what we've learned from internet shutdowns in Iran, and see how we're gearing up to get Arti, our implementation of Tor in Rust that powers Tor VPN among others, production ready. Save the date to get notified.

December 9th, 2026 - Updates from the Tor Community

Meet the people building on Tor and advancing privacy through free and open-source software. At State of the Onion 2026 Community Day, learn more about OONI's new censorship measurement tools, the Guardian Project's efforts to improve the Tor experience on iOS, and the many ways you can volunteer to help others get online with Bloco’s Snowflake Volunteer app. The program also features speakers from Women on Web, Hush Line, Cake Wallet, and many more sharing highlights from their work in 2026. Join Tor's Community Team as they guide you through the program. Save the date to get notified.

Streams are available on YouTube, X, as an Onion Service at 1700 UTC on both days, and as a replay on the Tor Project's YouTube Channel

The inaugural re:publica Los Angeles is a Festival for the Digital Society and offerns new networking format connecting creatives, businesses, institutions and civil society actors from Europe and the United States. Drawing on the twenty-year success story of the Berlin festival, re:publica LA aims to create a place of hope for democracy and optimism for the digital future, and foster new perspectives at the intersection of technology, film, democracy, and culture.

Pavel Zoneff, Director of Strategic Communications for the Tor Project will be hosting an interactive session "Reframing the 'Dark Web': How We Tell Stories of Privacy and Anonymity".

Learn more about re:publica LA and get your tickets: https://la.re-publica.com/en.

Devcon is the Ethereum Foundation’s annual global gathering for the people building decentralized systems. From November 3–6, 2026, Devcon 8 will bring the global Ethereum community to Mumbai to learn, build, and connect around open-source technology and the ideas shaping a more open, private, secure, and resilient digital future. Members of the Tor Project will be in attendance and hosting sessions.

For tickets and more information, please visit: https://devcon.org/

The Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress brings together a global network of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers & policy-makers.

From defending resistance networks under political duress to scaling cryptography as civic infrastructure, the summit explores how open protocols and privacy tools become a resilient, shared foundation for digital autonomy, free assembly, and accountability.

For more info, visit: https://congress.web3privacy.info

Mozilla Festival, aka MozFest, is three days of bold conversations, hands-on building, and ideas worth traveling for.

• Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director, the Tor Project, will attend as a panelist: "Wilding AI: community-centered principles for community-owned digital futures"

For more information, visit: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/festival/

Join the Internet Archive Europe and members of the Tor Project to discuss the current threats to internet access, focusing on the recent events revealing the fragility of internet domain system (DNS), and how Onion Services, a technology developed by Tor, can be used as an alternative to centralization.

The event has limited space and requires registration (but disposable e-mail accounts are accepted) at https://luma.com/s64zolbc

The event brings together digital rights networks from around the world for three days of collaboration building, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and rejuvenation.

At the Tor and Tails booth you can learn more about tools that can help you be anonymous on the internet. Come to chat with us about how to use the Tor Browser or the Tails OS to protect your privacy online and bypass censorship. Learn more about our community and how to volunteer. And if you would like to partner with us for digital security training in your area.

DEF CON is one of the oldest continuously running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest.

Join us at DEF CON 34! Come by our booth and check out new Tor merch.

• Roger Dingledine will give a Tor talk on Sunday, August 9th at 10am, entitled "Shepherding the Tor network" examining the lessons learned from operating the network for close to 25 years: from relays to directory authorities -- focusing on the community angle, on finding and kicking out bad relays, and generally looking at the safety of users and of relay operators.

For more info, visit: https://defcon.org/

The Global Media Forum is an annual gathering of journalists and media experts from around the world. DW has hosted the event in Bonn since 2007. This year's theme is "Journalism out loud"

The Tor Project's Executive Director, Isabela Fernandes, will co-host the workshop "Tools to outsmart censorship: A journalist’s guide"

For more info, visit: https://gmf-event.com/