Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)

???? Arti version 0.0.2 is released, including bunches of API breaks, loads of refactoring, better configuration support, and optimistic streams.

Ever wanted to try an embeddable Tor client in Rust? Here you go:

https://forum.torproject.net/t/arti-0-0-2-is-released-api-groundwork-refactoring-config-and-optimism/939

@Xantulon it's a know issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40671Tor Browser developers are working to fix it.

Add some sparkle on your laptop. ✨

Become a monthly donor, of any amount, to @torproject before the end of the year and you'll receive this exclusive holographic 'privacy is a human right' sticker.

https://torproject.org/donate/donate-phr-md

Entering the Matrix ????????

We are happy to announce an expansion of the Tor community's day-to-day conversations by bridging our IRC community the Matrix platform.

For regular Tor users, it means that you can chat with us using a friendly App like Element.

https://blog.torproject.org/entering-the-matrix

We're very happy to announce a new era in Tor: Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation. Thanks to funding from ZcashOMG, we can finally move the Arti project up in our priorities list! https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

Some background on why Arti is important for the future of Tor: Tor is a set of protocols to provide anonymity, privacy, and censorship resistance on the Internet. Tor is also a program (in C) that provides client-side and server-side implementations of those protocols.

We started Tor back around 2002, based on earlier Onion Routing designs from the mid-1990s. Since then, Tor has grown to handle millions of users around the world, and today's Tor is still written in the C programming language.

Although C is venerable and ubiquitous, it's error-prone to use, and its lack of high-level features make many programming tasks more complex than they'd be in a more modern language. For us, these problems mean that programming in C is a slow and painstaking process.

Rust seems like the clearest way out of our bind. It's a high-level language & more expressive than C. It has innovative features that let the language enforce safety properties at compile-time. That's a huge win for us in programming time and for users in security & reliability.

We're extremely excited to have ZcashOMG support in building Arti and moving Tor into a new era!

Learn more about Arti, the roadmap, and how you can get involved here: https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

We're hiring a Browser Developer to work on Tor Browser!https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/tor-browser-developer/

Thank you, thank you, thank you for participating in this charity auction in support of Tor's work, to PleasrDAO for the closing bid of 500 $ETH / $2M in support of privacy online, and to ix_shells for her incredible piece of art based on the very first onion service key.

The Tor Project is hiring for two positions: a Systems Administrator and a Browser Developer. Share these opportunities with your networks:https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/

We're excited to announce that we are participating in Google Summer of Code again this year under the umbrella of DIAL Community. ????

You have now until April 13 to register and submit your application! Here is all the info you need to apply: https://hub.osc.dial.community/t/gsoc-2021-dial-open-source-center/2134

The Tor Project's UX team lead Antonela Debiasi will share how our human-centered design methodologies improve Tor's usability without compromising user privacy at this year's LibrePlanet.

https://libreplanet.org/2021/speakers/#4841

???? Starting this month, we're running a campaign to increase the number of Snowflake proxies run by volunteers. Snowflake is a new way to defeat internet censorship bundled in Tor Browser Alpha. You can help users in censored countries to connect to Tor by running a Snowflake proxy! https://support.torproject.org/censorship/what-is-snowflake/

For Snowflake volunteers: If you use Firefox, Brave, or Chrome, our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. Note: you should not run more than one snowflake in the same network.https://support.torproject.org/censorship/how-to-help-running-snowflake/

For Snowflake users: Tor users can try it in Tor Browser Alpha (Windows, macOS, Linux), or for iOS, Onion Browser. Learn more how to enable it in Tor Browser Alpha: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/how-can-i-use-snowflake/

And finally, if you've tested Snowflake, we have a user survey to help us improve it: https://blog.torproject.org/learning-more-about-tor-users

Dear Mastodon, we're ~60 followers away from 12K! Can you help us get there?

Help by spreading the word that:

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???? Tracking & surveillance are widespread on the internet.

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