[31c3] State of the Onion: Update on Tor Project from 2014 CCC
Channel: The Tor Project
Date: 29/04/2015

Roger Dingledine, Jacob Appelbaum and Arturo Filastò of Tor Project discuss the state of various ongoing projects at Tor at Chaos Communications Congress (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Static:Main_Page). Features Laura Poitras explaining how Tor helps journalists and whistleblowers.

originally posted on http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301400_-_state_of_the_onion_-_jacob_-_arma.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzOHBoEJS_E  by "media.ccc.de"

The current state of the Tor network and community, covering important updates, discussions of the ecosystem of software, and include a longer Q&A than previous CCC talks!

The State of the Onion covers technical, social, economic, political and cultural issues pertaining to anonymity, the Tor Project and the ecosystem surrounding our communities.

Important topics include the following issues:

- XKEYSCORE rules 
- The shift from 3 guards to 1 guard 
- Blackhat / cert talk and responsible Tor research in general 
- Russian funding for Tor research 
- Heartbleed 
- New hidden service R&D funding 
- Helping Internet services accept anonymous users 
- Meek and new pluggable transports 
- Tor Browser integration 
- Tor and EFF Tor relay challenge 
- OrFox 
- Incentives to relay 
- Spoiled onions paper amongst others 
- A summary and fact checking of important media coverage 
- Tor Weekly news 
- Art and anonymity in culture

Date: Tue, 12/30/2014