Jared Naude (140)
If you want to help fight censorship with the Tor project, please run WebTunnel Bridges!
Tor has approximately 8000 relays and 2000 bridges which has grown by 30%. The Tor project still has a healthy amount of bandwidth and the distribution of users is good. #38c3
Guardians of the Onion: Ensuring the Health and Resilience of the Tor Network by Hiro & Gus
This talk will cover recent news, the current state of the network, how we determine its health, and the strategies to strengthen its resilience, addressing challenges around sustainability and governance. #38c3 🧵
A goal of the Tor project is to have diversity across networks, platforms as this means it is more secure against attacks. Diversity also means that a single government is limited to what they can do to the Tor network. This leads to the strength of the Tor network. #38c3
When the Tor project thinks about Network Health, they think about security, functionality and reliability for all users. Along with proper governance, removing bad operators and growing the community. #38c3
Combating bad relays is hard as it takes time and expertise to investigate the associated data. Tor has created an open source investigation proposal to help with investigations. False positives are real and need to be reviewed with adds further to the challenge. #38c3
A user was de-anonymized and the Tor project has looked at preventing further attacks. A suggestion was to add padding to traffic, however traffic was already padded. Another suggestion was adding delays, however this is not suitable for the broad users that use Tor. #38c3
Summary of device malware detection between 2022, 2023 and 2024. #38c3
Commercial spyware is provided by companies to nation states often affecting individual targets that are journalists, dissents and civil society. Infections are low probability but have high impact. #38c3
A summary showing infection mechanisms and the forensic artifacts that are left / removed when an infection occurs. #38c3
