Hello, Tor Teachers!

I am a hobbyist programmer from Asia, where the general public don't use Tor. 
My spare time job is raise people's awareness on mass surveillance and teach 
them how to protect their identities on the Internet when they are doing 
sensitive, controversial and semi-illegal activities.

Background:

- Tor is heavily censored in China. Internet is heavily censored in China. But 
people don't know how Internet censorship works. Though there is a big 
firewall, many people don't know how will digital surveillance affects their 
safety. The general computer users are more than eager to install 
govt-sponsored adware and spyware to use the Internet more conveniently [1]. 
Web browsers from China don't check for HTTPS certificates and Man in middle 
attacks. Citizen Labs caught Baidu on spying on their users. [2]

[1] 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/millions-android-devices-vulnerable-remote-hijacking-baidu-wrote-code-google-made
[2] 
https://citizenlab.org/2016/02/researchers-identify-security-and-privacy-issues-in-baidu-browser

- Tor is not used widely in Japan, though Japan does not have heavy Internet 
censorship. They prefer to use "homemade" software, for example the close 
source, discontinued P2P software Perfect Dark [1], which is not safe at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_%28P2P%29

- Controversial events occurred, which has the potential raise people's 
awareness of privacy, anonymity and mass surveillance.
    (On extraorbitant profits) Theories suggest a Chinese video streaming 
company filed complaints to Kyoto cyber police, asking local police to arrest 
Chinese college students: 
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/09/28/kyoto-police-arrested-two-chinese-men-for-illegally-uploading-arslan-prisma-illya-anime
    (On legality) Chinese headlines suggest it is the first case in which 
Japanese cyber police actually took action to arrest people for torrenting. 
Before that, torrenting in Japan is a grey area.
    (On public anger) Protest in Hong Kong against police arresting fansubbers: 
http://www.acgdoge.net/archives/11917 (Use StartPage proxy to see it)
    (On lack of security knowledge) People don't know how BitTorrent works. 
Many technical discussions afterwards still recommend future people use 
unreliable OPSEC methods, including using the Baidu Drive over HTTP port 80, 
using WinRAR volumes to "destroy traffic feature" and, using the defunct 
Perfect Dark.


My methods:

- I need to test and evaluate these software first. Many software has confusing 
translations, and has bugs handling file system encoding.

For example, OnionShare and Stem don't work on my computer. I doubt it is that 
the directory name contains Chinese characters. I emailed OnionShare and Stem 
developer about this.


- Despite that I am a little bit late, I still need to teach the general people 
how to use anonymity and privacy software, in a way easy to understand, easy to 
memorize and hard to censor.

I tried to translate tutorials into familiar memes, so people will hopefully 
feel obvious to use anonymity software.

A modern Chinese meme goes like this: a forum moderator [*] wanted to teach 
people how to take screenshots, so he pretended to be a professional (a 
professional on taking screenshots), showed three obvious ways of taking 
screenshots on Windows 7: (1) Ma Hua Teng [**] presses the big button in his 
chat software; (2) dear Bill Gates presses the big button which says "Snipping 
tool"; (3) "The God of Computer" presses the big button on the keyboard. In the 
last picture, it says: "This is you. You still want to use cellphone camera in 
front of computer screen." [***]

[*] http://imgs.aixifan.com/content/2016_05_30/1464571016.jpg
[**] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huateng
[***] 
https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i1/1934989275/TB2HWa6gFXXXXbeXXXXXXXXXXXX_!!1934989275-0-taoxiaopu_sell.jpg

I want to making using anonymity software obvious, too. I made a poster in the 
meme style, pretending to be a pseudonymous professional, to raise curiosity 
first, and showed what celebrities in computer world want "you" to use, but 
what "you" decided to use at last. I even created a printable version: 
https://github.com/m-ajiao/Dr.-Tanaka-Says/blob/master/Your_Upload_Buttons.pdf


At last, the problem I am aware of after making this, is that using these 
software doesn't seem to be easy. Tor Browser comes without many required 
configurations, has a straightforward UI design, but this is not the case for 
I2P, Tahoe-LAFS and RetroShare. There is still many work to make anonymity 
software more accessible to computer beginners, which requires not only 
developers' effort but also public awareness and support.


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