Organizing the project for demhack.ru

Roskomsvoboda is organizing a new edition of their hackathon demhack.ru that will happen on May 20-22. I'm opening this ticket to discuss and organize the tasks for the project.

As the censorship against Tor is affecting our users in Russia, it would be very important that the project help them to bypass censorship.

I'll add here some ideas that we have discussed by email and on IRC today:

a) Write a GetTor + bridges bot for WhatsApp.
b) Write a GetTor + bridges bot for Signal.
c) Write a GetTor + bridges bot for iMessage.

Other important tasks:

• Localization: the bot(s) should give Tor Browser in the user locale.
• Bridge enumeration mitigation: the bot(s) should have protections against bridge enumeration.

Other ideas and projects:

• Add a Salmon-like implementation - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/tree/main/pkg/usecases/distributors/salmon
• GetTor Signal bot: https://gitlab.com/george/signal-gettor
• cdr.link workaround: https://gitlab.com/digiresilience/link/metamigo
• Signalbot: https://gitlab.torproject.org/gus/signalbot

Feel free to share and discuss other ideas and projects.

We will need to have a name for this project. 😄