# Andrew's March 2014 # Highlights
- Talked to a number of press orgs such as BBC, Wall Street Journal, a Swedish press org, CBS, TechCrunch, CNN, and others. - Traveled to Egypt, met with a number of people who provided valuable feedback on Tor - Helped the MIT codesign class make progress on our projects - Presented on technology, domestic violence, tor, and surveillance for 90 minutes. - Talked to a number of State Police, FBI, and local police officers about Tor through various phone calls and meetings. - A member of the Iceland national police emailed me to say he met the rest of the Tor team, and thanks for the refresher on Tor two years later. - made more progress on three proposals due in April - communicated our thanks for the donor of torproject.fr domain name - Rolled out new policies and contracts to comply with our upstream funding contracts - Presented an overview of Tor Project to the Boston Network Users Group (BNUG) and Microsoft - Talked to two engineering companies about building a Tor router in hardware # Details from https://gs.torproject.org/person/phobos - finished conf call about promotion - finished conf call about proposal - talked to turkish intelligence about censorship and tor - finished review of IRS bitcoin guidance and how it affects tor with auditors - more progress on proposal docs - mailed 4 safeplug demos out to researchers - mailed a pile of expense checks - discussed IRS bitcoin guidance with accounting - completed a few hours of administrivia - send out 12 t-shirts to relay operators - talked to press org about positive uses of tor for documentary - finalized contracts and policies - 1 on 1 with employee done - discussed https://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-person-140324/ with a reporter - finished, final, final, no really this time final, report for sponsor L - updated sponsorH contract - responded to 2 more press requests about tor - investigated requirements for torproject.fr hosting/ownership - updated rude and sergii with new tor versions - talked to british press org about tor and the underworld - finally, published interview at http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/23/when-startups-and-revolutions-collide/ - publish new mirror status - added more mirrors to the list - respond to two more press requests about tor, hidden services, point-click-publish plans - presented on dynamics of abuse and technology for MIT, https://surveillance.hackpad.com/Transition-House-Tor-Project-Presentation-SoQhbV40UKi - answered another reporter about fake tor on iOS - upgraded bwauth - finished conf call with sponsorF - answered a Swedish reporter about hardware devices, Tor, and protecting privacy for consumers - attended screening of "A Moment in Her Story", http://catherinerussodocumentaries.com/ - attended EADV Winter member meeting, http://employersagainstdomesticviolence.org/ - answered a reporter about fake Tor browsers in the apple app store - talked to a reporter about https://medium.com/p/f5ab81f9f654 - presented for 90 minute son domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, and tor - met with MIT class - met with NEU people - met about summer dev meeting and hotel challenges - helped arrange Microsoft grant to PETS 2014 - getting setup for defender's days - getting setup for f.ounders conference - helped cyberstaking victim - met with FBI - talked to police in wisconsin about tor - renewed domain name, updated contact info across all our domain names - added 4 new people to svn, purged old accounts which haven't logged in for over a year - reverse engineered our svn setup again - paid out some reimbursements for tor dev meeting - revieved sponsorL final deliverables - reviewed sponsorF audit docs, suggested corrections - slogging through 1834 emails from the past few days when i was in egypt - answered 10 relay donations emails - poked accounting about contract status - extended a contract to allow us to close it out and gain the last 10% of the funding 6 months after it formally ended - reviewed health plan options - wrote up trip report - met with MIT class, defined projects, planned 1.5h talk tomorrow - lemmonii is now reachable - possibly fixed office internet connection - returned from egypt trip - talked to CBS in LA about Tor at a very high level - reviewed projects of MIT students - added mailing address to website - worked on proposal for domestic violence and technology - met with high school to talk about technology and privacy and bullying - met with european funder to discuss an approach - approve the real 12 comments on the blog - purge another 1,958 spam comments from the blog. - purged 1,458 spam comments from blog moderation queue. sql ftw - corrected paypal 1099-K reporting so it's for Tor and not me as an individual - dead disk in archive system - responded to press request about bitcoin, satoshi, and doxing - responded to a state police detective investigating the use of tor in a crime - started renegotiating the sponsorH timelines and contract with sponsorH - drafted and sent sponsorF report on emergency request by sponsorF - answered 28 pgp encrypted emails - updated bwauth - spend 2h hacking on blog with no forward progress - determined current blog is dying quickly - bills processed and mailed - responded to press about tor financials because this reporter heard a rumor on cryptome we were funded by the USG - worked out payment issues with hetzner - started collecting docs for sponsorF audit - caught up on accounting with melissa and sue - met with local lobbying group to discuss privacy and technology - and another few thousand blog comments purged - purged thousands of spam comments on the blog, sql ftw - talked to disconnect.me about donation - talked to suicide survivor org about tor and handling trolls - talked to a very confused journalist from northern europe about tor, bitcoins, iceland, and auroracoins - talked to CNN briefly, they clearly didn't really want to talk to us about the deep web - processed 250 blog comments, mostly spam - at MIT codesign class - accepted donation from disconnect.me - sent february monthly report - gave out tshirts to a bunch of relay operators thanks to tor weather emails - responded to press about the new, new, new silk road and hidden services - gnutls updates applied to hosts - bnug presentation done to around 24 people - added 2 new mirrors, rejected 1 - watsoni.torproject.org is being icmp flooded - send out updated docs to relevant people - reviewed updated documents wiht lawyers - hopefully talked botner herder out of using infected clients as tor bofs bridges - met with my MIT team - responded to norwegian press about censorship in turkey - security updates applied to relevant hosts - updated mirrors - talked to an agency about gang stalking with technology -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports
