[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-22

Hey everyone!

Here is our meeting log:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-22-15.57.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship team meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday, January 12 16:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)

== Goal of this meeting ==

Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at the Tor Project and Tor community.

== Links to Useful documents ==

  * Our anti-censorship roadmap:
    * Roadmap: Development · Boards · Anti-censorship · GitLab
  * The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
    * Home · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
  * Past meeting notes can be found at:
    * The tor-project Archives
  * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors, we are working on:
    * All needs review tickets:
      * Merge requests · Anti-censorship · GitLab
    * Sponsor 28
      * must-do tickets: Sponsor 28: Reliable Anonymous Communication Evading Censors and Repressors (RACECAR) · The Tor Project · GitLab
      * possible tickets: Issues · The Tor Project · GitLab
    * Sponsor 96
      * Sponsor 96: Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet · The Tor Project · GitLab

== Announcements ==

  * No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7

== Discussion ==

  *

== Actions ==

  *

== Interesting links ==

== Reading group ==

  * We will discuss "" on
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    * Questions to ask and goals to have:
      * What aspects of the paper are questionable?
      * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?
      * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?
      * Is there future work that we want to call out in hopes that others will pick it up?

== Updates ==

Name:
    This week:
        - What you worked on this week.
    Next week:
        - What you are planning to work on next week.
    Help with:
       - Something you need help with.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-11-24
  Last week:
      - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
  This week:
      - continue work on conjure client
      - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
      - fixup snowflake!108
  Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-12-14
  Last week:
    - snowflake CDN bookkeeping Changes · Snowflake costs · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
  Next week:
    - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public
      - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40007
      - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
    - migrate goptlib to gitlab migrate away from git.torproject.org (#86) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
    - try Conjure PT development version [tor-dev] Introducing a Conjure PT for Tor
  Help with:

meskio: 2022-12-22
   Last week:
       - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008)
       - fix onionsproutsbot bug with journald (onionsproutsbot#47)
       - Circumvention Settings recommends obfs4 bridges in Russia (rdsys-admin!11)
       - Investigate broken descriptors (bridgedb-admin#4)
   Next week/after holidays:
       - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11)
       - publish obfs4 deofuscation bugs

Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08
   Last Week:
    - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
    - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
    - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
    - [Research] HTTPT Planning Add HTTPT as a pluggable transport to Tor Browser (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / HTTPT · GitLab
     - [Merge Request] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(Update to support chunked upload of probe log (!2) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Connectivity Measurement / logcollector-admin · GitLab)
     - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (!3) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Connectivity Measurement / logcollector · GitLab)
   Next Week:
    - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
    
Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15
    Last week:
      - worked on RACE performance issue
      - [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines"
      - reviewed some MRs

    This week:
    - Work on the RACE performance issue
    - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag
    - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server

hackerncoder: 2022-12-22
    last week:
        - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server
        - worked on ooni-exporter HackerNCoder / ooniexporter · GitLab
    Next week/after holiday:
        - figure out what makes ooni-exporter put all reports from a country in either success or failure
        - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
        - work on monitoring bridges health

cece: 2022-12-22
    This week:
        - working on creating a dummy WhatsApp bot
    Next week:
        - My bot is not yet working as expected s still trying to figure that out
    Help with:
       - resources

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