Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 3

NEW POSITION: We're looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to join our team!

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years experience running open source systems.

This position can be performed remotely or in our Seattle office. https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-sysadmin.html.en

In 1 week, come meet us at Tor Community Night in Barcelona!

If you run relays, are at all interested in running relays, or want to learn more about becoming involved with Tor, we hope to see you there. https://blog.torproject.org/meetup-tor-community-night-pets

Digital rights are human rights.

“At least you have to show that you know your rights and are ready to defend them."

https://qz.com/1329145/african-governments-silence-social-media-bloggers-on-twitter-whatsapp-facebook/

The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution for the “promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the internet” which condemns any country that intentionally disrupts the internet access of its citizens. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/un-declares-online-freedom-to-be-a-human-right-that-must-be-protected-a7120186.html

We need TWO great Project Managers to join our team - one focused on team projects, the other on product. Please help us spread the word! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs

Egypt has done more than censor the internet. Egypt was found to have hijacked unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptomining 💰

A groundbreaking new report by OONI and AFTE details these anomalies and more: https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship

We've got 3 new opportunities to join our team!

- Fundraising Director
- Project Manager for Network Projects
- Project Manager with Product Exp

These full-time positions can be performed remotely or from our office in Seattle. https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs

This would break the internet.

Imagine YouTube Content ID, but for everything: blog comments, tweets, Github commits, Instagram photos, replies to newspaper articles, rental listings, dating profiles.

This is being proposed in the EU. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbk47b/europe-copyright-rules-content-id

Don’t let Facebook, or any tracker, follow you on the web: https://blog.torproject.org/dont-let-facebook-or-any-tracker-follow-you-web

More trouble for Facebook 🍿

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-congress/u-s-lawmakers-press-facebook-over-chinese-data-sharing-idUSKCN1J21OE

Alexa recorded a couple's private conversation and sent it to a random contact.

Amazon said it's "an extremely rare occurrence."

Get this thing out of your home, folks.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/amazon-alexa-recorded-conversation

After months of work, we have a new stable release series!

Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series which includes improvements for v3 onion services, support to embed Tor within other apps, and our first non-trivial module in Rust. https://blog.torproject.org/tor-0336-released-new-stable-series

Turkey's government attempted to infect a large number of Turkish dissidents and protesters by spreading spyware over Twitter.

Access Now also identified six other malware samples likely used in Ukraine, Lybia, Venezuela, and Indonesia. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjb8g5/finfisher-turkey-twitter-spyware

Amazon and Google are pulling the plug on domain fronting, a crucial tool which helps our most vulnerable users get access to Tor when their countries don’t allow it. https://blog.torproject.org/domain-fronting-critical-open-web

We didn't have to look far for our next Executive Director.

As Project Manager since 2015, Isabela Bagueros has led teams in collaborative strategy building and roadmapping unprecedented at Tor. 🥅

"Isa’s contributions to Tor are too many to name here."

Congrats, Isa!
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-tors-next-executive-director-isabela-bagueros