Tor activities at 37c3 / CCC 2023

37c3 has been announced, Dec 27-30 of 2023, in Hamburg.

The call for talk proposals is out now too: https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/

We are coordinating with @leibi to organize a relay operator meetup. Apparently space is especially limited this year, so getting a room for the relay operator meetup ASAP is the smart move.

I am thinking to submit a talk on recent attempts at Tor censorship in Russia (2021-2022), Iran (2022-2023), Turkmenistan (2023). Basically take the Defcon 2022 talk that focused on Russia and expand and update it. It has been many many years since I had a CCC talk, so it will be nice to get back to it -- even if it is Hamburg in December. :)

I heard @ahf mention that he was also considering submitting a talk, maybe on the Tor VPN work?

(please keep @pavel CC'ed on all speaking/events tickets)

Yeah, not sure who is going yet.

added Q4 label

I wrote up a set of questions, and a description of a talk submission, and sent it to some CCC friends for advice.

Deadline for talk submissions is the afternoon of Nov 11 -- but as usual submitting earlier than the deadline could be more helpful, so I recommend not waiting until then.

Ok, I have created an event in their frab. Next steps, (a) let them review it, (b) make some travel plans, and (c) remind @leibi about our hopes for a relay operator meetup space.

Expected response to submission is: December 3

Did you receive any feedback?

Yes! It is accepted. I still owe them an email reply which I am slowly writing (edit: and have now written and sent)

I've published a self-organised-session on the congress wiki for a Tor meetup at 37C3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/tor-meetup/

If anyone would like to present anything during the meetup let me know.

If this will be a talk I suggest you rename the SoS. Otherwise this will be confusing it there are several Tor meetups.

This was planned as a Meetup that happened to include one or two short talks.

So we have both a general Tor meetup and a Tor Relay Community specific meetup ? Should we try to make sure they are on different days (ideally later in the day) so that at least one of them can advertise for the other one? We could also let comms know here for social media announcements around those dates.

I'm not entirely sure what the plan is for other meet-ups, this is just what I've already been planning since November with Iain.

I've heard no word yet about a relay operator meetup, as far as I know.

At this point it is not possible to reserve a room for the official meetup I promised to organize. I'm watching it closely and will inform you as soon as there are any news.

Thanks! We should also consider alternative options then, like asking to borrow a bit of somebody else's space for it.

My talk timeslot is tentatively scheduled as day 2 at 20:15, which if it sticks will fit well with Q's day 3 meetup time.

New tentative time for talk, day 2 at 23:00, now with enough time that I can have the original 60 minute timeslot I wanted. Still a great time -- people will be back from dinner by then, nobody will have gone to bed yet, etc. :)

Here's the link:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events/12040.html

changed the description

I managed to book a room for a meetup: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/de/event/tor-relay-operators-meetup/

Day 3; 20:30

I've also just booked a room for the day 3 meetup.

Q: Jeremy tells us on irc that his plan to speak at the other cluster (described in the comment below this one) fell through, and he hopes to get some space in your meet-up to do his talk.

He is only on #tor-project irc / matrix though (no signal / email / gitlab / etc), and I told him that at this late hour it's tough to know whether you're checking things, whether it will fit with your vision, etc. But I also told him I would write this comment on gitlab, so here I am doing it. :)

I will let you sort out what you want your meet-up to be -- I've been figuring aside from your ACME talk, people might show up and informally chat about Tor and I would show up too in case I can be helpful.

Yep, that’d be grand. He can give his talk after mine.

I was wanting a more general session, not just ACME specific anyway.

I’ll be more available to discuss specifics tomorrow (27th).

I'm presenting a talk on Robert Nganga's behalf (he couldn't make it to C3 in person, hopefully next year) about the proxy leak mitigation work he did as part of his Outreachy internship. There will also be a workshop after the talk to get feedback on what features and functionality the Tor community wants to see added (we intend to have Namecoin fund him to continue the project). Both the talk and the workshop will be hosted by the Critical Decentralization Cluster. So, would be awesome to have some Tor people there -- especially at the workshop.

I won't have access to my GitLab account while at the Congress; I will have my travel Matrix account join the Tor Project Matrix channel, pinging me there will be the easiest way to reach me. Or you can just walk over to the Critical Decentralization Cluster where I'll be hanging out.

There will also be a meeting to reboot torservers.net: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/de/event/torserversnet-meeting/ I have sent a mail to @tor-relay with an invitation to the orgs.

@arma ma please promote @ your talk

Thanks! I just approved the posts. And yes I will tell people about the three Tor events on Day 3.

Woo, --Roger

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On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 02:38:18PM +0000, Stefan Leibfarth (@leibi) wrote:

There will also be a meeting to reboot torservers.net: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/de/event/torserversnet-meeting/ I have sent a mail to @tor-relay with an invitation to the orgs.

@arma ma please promote @ your talk

Will somebody bring merch (stickers, shirts, ...)?

I will bring a few stickers, but I don't know of anybody who plans to bring much merch. So, if you are reading this and you have it, please bring it! :)

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On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 02:54:26PM +0000, Stefan Leibfarth (@leibi) wrote:

Will somebody bring merch (stickers, shirts, ...)?

My slides for posterity: https://freehaven.net/~arma/slides-37c3.pdf

After congress I will make an actual merge request on ahf's onion-tex repo

Video of @arma 's talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12040-tor_censorship_attempts_in_russia_iran_turkmenistan

Will update as soon YouTube version is also online.

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