With Likhita, Etienne Maynier and John Scott-Railton. Hosted by Roger Dingledine.

في كل عام، تستثمر الحكومات وإدارات حفظ الأمن والجيوش والشركات ملايير الدولارات في بناء وشراء برامج تجسس ضارة -- وهي برامج مصممة لاختراق جهاز المستخدم في كل صمت والسماح للمهاجمين بمشاهدة المحتويات دون اكتشافها. كشف مشروع بيكاسوس (Pegasus) هذا العام أن مستخدمي هذا النوع من برامج التجسس، المعروفة باسم بيكاسوس والتي أنشأتها مجموعة NSO ، قد استهدفوا الهواتف التي تخص آلاف الأشخاص في أكثر من 50 دولة، بما في ذلك رجال الأعمال والسياسيين والصحفيين والناشطين الحقوقيين. In this edition of PrivChat, join Likhita and Etienne Maynier of Amnesty International and John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab to discuss how people can protect themselves, what organizations we can support to stop this abuse and who is working on safer, more private software that we can trust?

With Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. Hosted by Gabriella Coleman.

احتفل بمرور 25 عامًا على التوجيه البصلي مع تور! يصادف 31 مايو 2021 الذكرى السنوية الخامسة والعشرين لأول عرض عمومي للتوجيه البصلي (onion routing) في كامبريدج، بالمملكة المتحدة خلال أول ورشة عمل حول إخفاء المعلومات بمعهد إسحاق نيوتن.

أنت مدعو للاحتفال بهذه اللحظة الخاصة معنا للتحدث عن بدايات التوجيه البصلي، وكيف تحولت هذه الفكرة إلى الأداة تور، وكيف ظهر مشروع تور في النهاية. سينضم إلينا بولْ سيفْرْسُنْ Paul Syverson ، أحد مؤلفي أول ورقة بحثية عن التوجيه البصلي، إلى جانب مؤسسَيْ مشروع تور روجَرْ دينْجليدينْ Roger Dingledine و نيكْ ماثْيوسُنْ Nick Mathewson.

سنفكر في الأيام الأولى لشبكة التوجيه البصلية في مختبر أبحاث البحرية الأمريكية (NRL, Naval Research Lab). (في ذلك الوقت، مرت اتصالات جهاز توجيه البصلية بخمس عُقد بدلاً من تصميم تور الحالي المكون من ثلاث عقد!) ليس سرا أن مفهوم التوجيه البصلي نشأ في مختبر أبحاث البحرية الأمريكية — إنه موجود في صفحة السجل لدينا، ولكن هناك الكثير الذي نريد مشاركته حول كيفية بدء تور وأين وصلنا في آخر 25 عاما.

With Alison Macrina, Berhan Taye and Ramy Raoof. Hosted by Ed Snowden.

The Tor Project's main mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies. People use our technology, namely the Tor network and Tor Browser, in diverse ways. Tor is used by whistleblowers who need a safe way to bring to light information about wrongdoing -- information that is crucial for society to know -- without sharing their identity. Tor is used by activists around the world who are fighting against authoritarian governments and to defend human rights, not only for their safety and anonymity, but also to circumvent internet censorship so their voices can be heard. Tor allows millions of people to protect themselves online, no matter what privilege they have or don't have. For our third edition of PrivChat, we are bringing you some real-life Tor users who will share how Tor has been important for them and their work to defend human rights and freedoms around the world.

With Felicia Anthonio, Vrinda Bhandari, Cecylia Bocovich and Arturo Filastò. Hosted by Cory Doctorow.

Every year, internet censorship increases globally. From network level blocking to nation-wide internet blackouts, governments and private companies have powerful tools to restrict information and prevent connections between people. Many people, groups, and organizations are doing innovative work to study, measure, and fight back against internet censorship--and they are helping millions of people connect more regularly and safely to the internet. Despite these successes, we're faced with well-funded adversaries that have billions of dollars to spend on censorship mechanisms, and the arms race is ongoing. The second edition of PrivChat with Tor will be about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly that is happening in the front lines of censorship circumvention. In a world where censorship technology is increasingly sophisticated and bought and sold between nations, so is our creativity to measure it and build tools to bypass it, as well as the willingness of people to fight back. But is it enough? What are the barriers facing the people and organizations fighting for internet freedom?

With Carmela Troncoso, Daniel Kahn Gillmor and Matt Mitchell. Hosted by Roger Dingledine.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit most countries around the world, many governments looked for technology to trace the spread of the virus in order to fight the pandemic. Contact tracing practices and technologies raised many questions about privacy, particularly: is it possible to trace the virus while respecting people's privacy? Now amidst the uprising in the U.S. against systemic racism, followed by protests all around the world, the central question about contact tracing, privacy, and surveillance becomes critical. Can the technology used for tracking the virus be used to track protesters? Will it be? For our first ever PrivChat, the Tor Project is bringing you three amazing guests to chat with us about privacy in this context.