Events

The 31st USENIX Security Symposium will take place on August 10-12, 2022, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, MA, USA. The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

website: USENIX Security '22

Advancing Human Rights With Tor - Isabela Fernandes at Zcon3

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THwmYW4VMQ

The Tor Project is a non-profit that builds Tor, a technology that allows people to be anonymous online, protects their privacy and helps them bypass internet censorship. However, sometimes we think more about the technology and not as much about the people using it. There are many reasons why someone would use Tor, it can be simply because a father is worried about how much the 'internet' will learn about his kids. All the way to a campesino who needs protection while talking with lawyers about crimes committed by the local government. This talk will share some of these stories to help uplift the Tor Project mission, which is to help advance human rights.

Speaker:

• Isabela Fernandes is the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018. She joined the Tor Project as Project Manager in 2015, after working as Product Manager for International and Growth at Twitter for four years. Isabela has been part of the free software community since the late 90s, and in 2007 she co-founded and worked as Latin America Project Manager for North by South, a startup from San Francisco focused on free software projects. Isabela was also part of Brazil's Federal Government Free Software initiative, working in 2005 on the Ministry of Communications digital inclusion project and participating in 2006 on a project to migrate the IT of the Presidential Palace of Brazil to free software.

Two Tor events will take place at Born Hack this year!

(1) Modernizing the Tor Ecosystem with Alexander Færøy, Network Team Lead (to be scheduled)

In this presentation, we will be updating the audience on the ongoing modernization efforts of the software developed inside The Tor Project -- the organization behind the most widely deployed anonymity network. We will look at upcoming features and changes to the core technology that drives the Tor network and why a Browser may no longer be the only product we have to provide for the user-base that is so crucial in need of Tor's anonymity properties for safe internet access.

Read more: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2022/program/modernizing-the-tor-ecosystem/

(2) Tor Relay Operators Meetup (to be scheduled)

For people who are currently running or are considering to run Tor relay nodes. Let's meet and share experiences, say hi to each other, and have an open discussion about topics related to Tor relay operations. Everybody is welcome.

We meet in the meetup area at the bar.

Read more: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2022/program/tor-relay-operators-meetup/

Tickets: https://bornhack.dk/shop/

Program: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2022/program/events/

MCH2022 is as a nonprofit outdoors hacker camp taking place in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, summer of 2022. The event is organized for and by volunteers from and around all facets of the worldwide hacker community. MCH2022 is the successor of a string of similar events happening every four years since 1989. These are GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, WTH, HAR, OHM and SHA.

Similar events are EMF in the UK, Bornhack in Denmark, Fri3d Camp in Belgium, IHC in Italy and CCC Camp in Germany. The location is the Scoutinglandgoed Zeewolde, 55km east of Amsterdam.

Two Tor events will take place at May Contain Hackers this year!

(1) Modernizing the Tor Ecosystem for the Future, 2022-07-24, 15:00–15:50 with Alexander Færøy, Network Team Lead

In this presentation, we will be updating the audience on the ongoing modernization efforts of the software developed inside The Tor Project -- the organization behind the most widely deployed anonymity network. We will look at upcoming features and changes to the core technology that drives the Tor network and why a Browser may no longer be the only product we have to provide for the user-base that is so crucial in need of Tor's anonymity properties for safe internet access.

Read more: https://program.mch2022.org/mch2021-2020/talk/MUP7MX/

(2) Tor Relay Operator meetup, 2022-07-24, 21:00-22:00

Let's meet up at the c-base tent, discuss current topics for Tor Relay Operators and answer questions.

Please bring your own chair!

Read more: https://wiki.mch2022.org/Session:Tor_Relay_Operator_Meetup

Website: https://mch2022.org Buy tickets: https://tickets.mch2022.org/

Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets to translate together, share tricks, have fun while translating, meet fellow translators, and find out about the l10n priorities for the Tor Project.

Come join us on the Localization Hangout, from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC. (you can also use Element https://element.io/ to connect: #tor-l10n:matrix.org)

What do we do in a hangout?

• Translate stuff
• Share translation tips and resources
• Complain about developers
• Talk about translation priorities
• Talk about our local contexts
• Practice bug reporting and git skills

For more information, visit: https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS/PoPETs is the premier venue for novel applied and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies.

Location: Sydney, Australia and Online

https://petsymposium.org/

Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets to translate together, share tricks, have fun while translating, meet fellow translators, and find out about the l10n priorities for the Tor Project.

Come join us on the Localization Hangout, from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC. (you can also use Element https://element.io/ to connect: #tor-l10n:matrix.org)

What do we do in a hangout?

• Translate stuff
• Share translation tips and resources
• Complain about developers
• Talk about translation priorities
• Talk about our local contexts
• Practice bug reporting and git skills

For more information, visit: https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/

Are you looking for a meaningful job? Do you speak multiple human and/or computer languages? Are you interested in working on next-gen issues such as digital rights, online harassment, disinformation, and privacy and security of citizens?

June 16 for the first ever Digital Rights Job Fair, hosted by the Team CommUNITY! The Tor Project will be participating in the fair.

RSVP soon as space is limited: https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/jobfair

Learn more about the job fair: https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/digital-rights-job-fair-june-22

RightsCon 2022 will be held online from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10, 2022. Registration.

Website: RightsCon Program

The Tor Project Community and Anti-Censorship Teams will join the DemHack4 and offers participants a project within Privacy track:

Create a bot for Signal and/or WhatsApp, which will share Tor bridges and Tor Browser binaries with users.

The Tor Project staff will follow the progress of different teams working on the task and will choose the winner.

The DemHack is organised by Roskomsvoboda and Privacy Accelerator.

DemHack is open and will accept the applications until May 16th (including 16th). For more information, please visit the event's website.

Website: DemHack