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The Tor Project Our mission is to be the global resource for technology, advocacy, research and education in the ongoing pursuit of freedom of speech, privacy rights online, and censorship circumvention. 1

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We h a v e a p r e s s a l i a s n o w p r e s s @ t o r p r o j e c t . o r g 6

N o b a c k d o o r s e v e r 7

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Pluggable transports 13

GOOGLE INFRASTRUCTURE www.google.com maps.google.com USER’S PC drive.google.com Browser gmail.com HTTPS SNI: www.google.com ... tor (front domain) TOR BRIDGE Host: meek-reflect.appspot.com Google (actual destination) HTTP meek-reflect meek-server meek-client frontend .appspot.com server tor INTERNET 14

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T o r u n i t t e s t s a n d r e f a c t o r i n g T h e T o r s o u r c e c o d e h a s b e c o me mu c h mo r e r o b u s t a n d t e s t e d o v e r t h e p a s t y e a r 16

OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference • It’s a set of principles and test specifjcations for conducting network measurements. • Measuring network irregularities that can be a symptom of internet censorship and surveillance since 2012. • Uses a peer reviewed methodology, implemented using free software and publishing the data.

OONI: Learn more & help us! • Journalists, Researchers, Activists or just citizens need this data to be open. • Historical and data from as many sources as possible is crucial • Run ooniprobe today! curl https://ooni.torproject.org/install.sh | bash • Or Adopt an ooniprobe! • Come to our Hall13 today at 18:00 to learn more

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Pervasive surveillance ● Design changes to improve robustness ● Internet is more centralized than we'd like ● New insight: surveillance (DPI) and censorship (DPI) more related than we realized 28

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P l e a s e t e a c h y o u r f a mi l y a n d f r i e n d s a b o u t t h e v a l u e ( s ) o f T o r 32

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