Tor Friends and Relay Operators Meetup: Berlin

Dear Zwiebelfreunde (onion friends) and relay operators,

A little less than a month ago, we hosted a meetup at Onionspace in Berlin to come together, talk, and work on solutions regarding the coordinated raids of the Zwiebelfreunde organization (Torservers.net) and its effects on the Tor ecosystem. Among members of Zwiebelfreunde, a number of relay operators and users shared their concerns, ideas, and proposals to strengthen the Tor network and maintain a healthy community. You can read our notes here.

We're holding a follow-up meetup to continue our discussions related to Tor users and relays operators on Saturday, August 25th at 16:00 (4:00 PM). Members of the Torservers will be together with us and provide the current state of the process with the court case.

If you want to learn more about Tor or running a relay, we'll be available to help with that, too.

All are welcome.

When: Saturday, August 25th, 2018

Start Time: 16:00 / 4:00 PM

Where: Gottschedstrasse 4, Entrance 4, 13357 Berlin (U Nauener Platz), Onionspace

Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.54978/13.36991

Event link: https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-friends-and-relay-operators-meetup-2-qbi-vasilis-and-others-onionspace-berlin

Hello, Friends of the Onion!…

Hello, Friends of the Onion! I support your work and hope you can continue despite government disruptions and worse. The whole world needs unbackdoored Tor, more than ever.

Hi friends I just joined tor

i want to get to dark web

"Dark Web" means different…

"Dark Web" means different things to different people.

If you want to download and use Tor Browser, follow the directions here:

https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en

If you have already done that and want to visit an "onion site", read this:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AccessOnionSe

For a complete operating system which tries to be amnesiac on disk and also anonymous on line, try

https://tails.boum.org/home/index.en.html

Hope this helps.

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