Ja mand, denne gang var det så kort jeg var i byen desværre :-( Det var lige før juletid.

Notes and slides from the #FOSDEM #Tor Relay Operator meetup:

- Notes: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

- Slides: ahf.me/talks/2026/0...

Thanks to everybody who joined ❤️ We will definitely try to run one of these meetups again at FOSDEM in 2027!

Off to #FOSDEM. See you all soon! 🥳

Just sent out an update to the #Tor relay operator community on the upcoming stabilization of C Tor 0.4.9.x. We hope relay operators with multiple relays will upgrade quickly and enable the Happy Families system, so we can deprecate the MyFamily system quickly: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

FOSDEM 2026 - Tor Relay Operator Meetup Welcome to the Official FOSDEM Tor Relay Operator Meetup. This BOF is for current or up-and-coming Tor Relay or Bridge operators interested in meeting like-minded people for an hour-long session with…

If you're attending #FOSDEM and have an interest in the Tor network and/or #Tor relay/bridge operation, we welcome you to join our Tor Relay Operator Meetup. It will take place on Sunday, the 1st of February, from 13:00 to 14:00, in the room H.3244.

For more info: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Just sent my brain dump of what happened at the #Tor Relay Operators Meetup during #39c3 to the tor-relays@ list: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

Thanks to everybody who joined! 🥳

Light installation from 39c3.

Back home in Copenhagen after a long December with travels to Mexico City for work meetings, Karlsruhe for a wonderful Christmas, and finally Hamburg for #39c3. It was nice to see all the friends, colleagues, and family during this month, and now it's time to sleep and recharge 🪫

Invitation cards in front of the ALL CREATURES WELCOME banner AIR • No phone number or email • End-to-end encrypted • No metadata retention • Open-source • Post-quantum secure • Based on Messaging Layer Security (MLS) and open standards • EU-based

We will be at #39C3 and we brought something exciting: Invitation codes for the beta phase of Air, our new secure messenger based on MLS! ✨

Hit us up if you’d like to join the beta with your friends.

You can also follow @air.ms, where we’ll post updates over time.

[39c3] Tor Relay Operators Meetup Official 39C3 Tor Relay Operators Meetup supported by the Tor Project. As always, TROMs are open for everyone who is running a relay, wants to run a relay or just thinks about it. 🙂 At this point we...

Leibi has managed to get a spot for a #Tor Relay Operator Meetup at #39c3. Join us on day 3 at 00:00 🥳

See more info at events.ccc.de/congress/202...

We are a couple of folks from the Tor community around this year. I will mostly be hanging out in the #BornHack village in Hall H (near the #ColdNorth cluster).

Sign at the train station reading "Frankfurt am Main Hbf".

On my way to #39c3. I should arrive in the afternoon. As always, I am looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues again in Hamburg. If you are interested in discussing some of the work we have been doing over the past year or so at @torproject.org on #tor, #arti, etc., feel free to reach out 🥳

You can do this either with the `module_blacklist` kernel argument or via `/etc/modprobe.d/` and re-generating your grub environment with `grub2-mkconfig`.

I've been using Qubes 4.3 in the RC phase on my Framework 13 laptop. I usually go with kernel-latest, but started seeing a bootup freeze right after the amdgpu driver was initialized. I solved this by manually blocking the `amdxdna` driver from loading.

#qubesos #framework

A map showing the Atlantic Ocean with a marker a bit north of Ireland, where the University of Copenhagen's Computer Science department is supposedly now located.

En route from Mexico City to Amsterdam, the infotainment system showed our current location and highlighted exciting local attractions. Thanks to this, I learned that the University of Copenhagen's Computer Science department has moved to its new location!

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Twenty contributors, three days, one goal: Bringing the Tor community together | Tor Project What does it take for a distributed community to organize its own gathering from scratch? Earlier this year, a group of Tor folks set out to prove that community-organized meetings can work on a shoes...

This year, we managed to pull together a small #Tor community gathering here in Denmark. Georg has written a blog post about the process and the event itself at blog.torproject.org/bringing-tor...

More events like this will happen in 2026! 😎

Tor's 2025 State of the Onion - Community Day is about to begin!

You can follow it at xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion or via more ancient IP technology at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk...

#tor

State of the Onion 2025 – Community Day YouTube video by The Tor Project

Community contributions are what power Tor, tune in Wed, Dec 10 at 1700 UTC for day 2 of our State of the Onion to hear directly from @ooni.org, The Guardian Project, @freedom.press, HushLine and more.
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk...
🧅 xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic | Tor Project Tor is upgrading its relay encryption algorithm for improved security. In upcoming releases, Arti and Tor will both support a new encryption algorithm called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). CGO prevents a...

Tor is upgrading its #relay encryption with a new encryption algorithm called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). CGO prevents attackers from tampering with encrypted traffic, adds forward secrecy, and brings Tor's encryption up to modern standards. blog.torproject.org/introducing-...

On World Kindness Day, learn how you can be kind by sharing your uncensored IP and bandwidth to help Tor users around the world guardianproject.info/2025/11/13/k... cc @torproject.org #worldkindnessday

State of the Onion 2025 YouTube video by The Tor Project

We're live in about half an hour 📺💜🧅:
on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDt...
on Tor Browser as an Onion Service: xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

Ugh! Okay that sucks - I have never tried it, but I think at the police station at CPH airport can print me a temporary passport in that situation :S

Ugh, reminds me of Nokia's travel booking system that booked a trip for me to the US with my surname being "F .r 0y". I wasn't allowed to board that airplane 😂

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Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal.
Privacy = Freedom - there's a reason why your vote is private

Please take 3 mins follow the form which emails your local politicians: fightchatcontrol.eu

Just dropped an email[1] to the tor-relays@ mailing list to figure out which #Tor relay operators are attending the upcoming #WHY2025 hacker camp in the Netherlands.

Check out this thread or here for announcements of the time and date for a meetup 🥳

[1]: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

OHM light giving a red, alerting, light.

The #BornHack 2025 program is starting to take shape. Thanks to everybody who has contributed with content! We still have submissions in the queue, but we also have space for more events!

If you are considering hosting a talk, workshop, lightning talk, etc., now is a perfect time to submit it!

Two speakers at BornHack on stage with a very home-made BornHack banner.

The #BornHack 2025 Call for Participation is now open! 🥳

Please submit the content before the 1st of June! BornHack is a participatory-driven event, so we highly encourage first-time presenters to submit content! 😎

Information on how to submit content can be found at bornhack.dk/bornhack-202...

MLS is efficient, but what does that mean in practice?

This paper sheds some light on the question by building a test framework for OpenMLS.

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18303