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Tor is for everyone and Nos Oignons needs you
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

======================================================================== - Nos Oignons --- Tor is for everyone and Nos Oignons needs you -------- =========================================================== 2018-07-17 = Everyone should be able to learn, communicate and create. All without feeling under surveillance. That’s why Tor Browser is free. As is using the Tor network. But running all the computers forming the network costs money. The non-profit Nos Oignons needs your help to fund its relays. That’s why today we start a new fundraising campaign: https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2018/index.en.html Tor is for Everyone =================== Some months ago, Nos Oignons was contacted by a journalist who wanted to “explain to our audience how we go into the deep web (through Tor) and why they might be interested in going there, without talking about “dark” sites like ones selling weapons”. But after some exchanges, the topic seems hard to sell to the editors: “At this stage, we frankly don’t have enough arguments, to the point that I doubt the article will even be published”. To the best of our knowledge, the article has indeed never been released. In our view, this lack of “arguments” stems from a fundamental misunderstanding: using Tor or (.onion sites) is no different from using the web or Internet in general. If Internet is meant for everyone, so is Tor. On the Internet, we read the press. But the experience is different from reading the press on paper. Someone grabing the latest edition of a daily newspaper in a coffee shop does not inform the publishers that their audience went up. They don’t tell them that they are in a coffee shop, or the name of the place, or which pages they read, or how long they spent on each article… But if the same person goes on the website of the same newspaper, the publishers will at the very least learn which Internet connection has been used, which pages have been read and for how long. And this information will not only be available to the newspaper: their ad broker will learn as much, as will Google which provides the character fonts, Facebook with the “Like” button, Twitter with theirs, and these are just the most common examples. So let’s be clear: on paper or online, no one reading a newspaper expects it to be reading them back. Replacing Firefox or Chrome by Tor Browser makes collecting data against our will much harder. We regain an Internet better matching our expectations. Viewing Tor only as a tool for anonymity or censorship circumvention marginalises its use and backs it into a corner. It should be the opposite: Tor gets the Internet a step closer to our most common intuitions on how it should work. The time when Internet use was reserved for a select few with a computer science background is long gone. Most net users are not able to make an informed choice about what data and traces stored or shared by the various computers involved in their communications. Even those who develop applications are not able to measure how much data is leaked to the vendors of the software development kits they use! Using Tor Browser allows us to limit the amount of information we communicate to third parties without our explicit intent. Controling what information we share when we communicate should not be the privilege of an elite. That’s why Tor is for everyone. 2018 Fundraising ================ Founded 5 years ago, Nos Oignons is now running enough exit nodes to transport about one out of fifty connections using Tor to reach an Internet site. The five servers currently running cost Nos Oignons slightly more than 800€ per month. With enough regular donations, we could even add more! Our goal with this new fundraising campaign is to gather enough to cover our costs for a whole year: around 12,000€. To thank you for your support, we’ve printed a new poster and postcards that we will gladly send your way. To learn more, visit: https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2018/index.en.html If you already do regular donations to Nos Oignons and wish to receive some postcards or a poster, please write us an email at campagne(a)nos-oignons.net

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Financial report for 2016 and activity report for 2016-2017
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Hello, With some delay, we are happy to publish our Financial report for 2016 and activity report for 2016-2017. More information: https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20170904_rapports_2016_2017/index.e… You can talk about that on our mailing list benevoles(a)nos-oignons.net[1] For Nos oignons board of advisory, Chre. [1]: https://nos-oignons.net/mailman/listinfo/benevoles

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100 Mbit/s additional capacity for the Tor network
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

======================================================================== - Nos oignons --- 100 Mbit/s additional capacity for the Tor network --- =========================================================== 2016-06-13 = Nos Oignons has just set up a new exit nodes to bring 100 Mbit/s additional capacity to the Tor network. We accepted an offer from Globenet [1] to host this new relay. Globenet is a non-profit organization which has been working since 1995 on freedoms of expression, communication, and association in relation to international solidarity. However, Globenet is more widely known by the general public for the creation of no-log.org [2], a (misleadlingly named) internet access provider created in 2001 who nowadays is still hosting many email accounts. The relay is named AlGrothendieck—a name suggested last summer during the Adopt an onion campaign [3]—as a reference to the mathematician and ecologist Alexandre Grothendieck [4], a long time apatrid who died in France at end of 2014. Anticonformist and antimilitarist, we can for example hear him give a talk (in French) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 1972 [5] questionning the social value of scientific research when it now threatens survival of all human lifes, or even life as a whole. The Internet allowed his autobiography [6] to be made available when he had not found a publisher in 1985. While last month the University of Montpellier decided to give back 20,000 handwritten pages to the family for inventory [7], the issues raised by Alexandre Grothendieck regarding the social aspects of science and technology are more relevant than ever. This new relay [8] raises Nos Oignons’ total contribution to the Tor network to a theoritical capacity of 725 Mbit/s [9]. Thanks to all who made this new relay possible. The actual position of Nos Oignons in the Tor network, a probability of 2% to use one of our exit nodes, gives room to set up more relays. Every single donation [10] is useful to enhance the Tor network and defend our freedoms in a world of pervasive electronic communications! [1]: http://www.globenet.org/What-is-Globenet.html [2]: http://www.no-log.org/ (fr) [3]: https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20150619_adopte_un_oignon/index.en.… [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Grothendieck [5]: https://archive.org/details/AlexandreGrothendieck-UneVieDigneDtreVcue (fr) [6]: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~duchamp/Books&more/Grothendieck/RS/pdf/RetS.pdf (fr) [7]: http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/06/08/les-inestimes-grothendieck-paper… (fr) [8]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/8E6EDA78D8E3ABA88D877C3E37D6D4F0938C7… [9]: https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html [10]: https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html

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Fruitful harvest and non-conformist mathematicians
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

======================================================================== - Nos oignons --- Fruitful harvest and non-conformist mathematicians --- =========================================================== 2015-09-15 = Nos Oignons' fundraising for 2015 has now reached its term after three months, gathering more than 5500€. Before starting this campaign, we were talking about closing one of our relays. We now have enough to cover our current expenses until June 2016! Almost a fifth of the donations were given in-person during on of the many conferences that we attended this summer. Meeting people committed to support freedom of expression is always heartwarming. During this month, our supporters were given the chance to “adopt an onion” by proposing names for our next relay. The winner is… AlGrothendieck [1]. Alexander Grothendieck was a genius mathematician who died last year. His huge and original lead to revolutionary advance in many area of pure mathematics. Stateless, he lived mainly in France. He has rejected institutions, honors and awards. He was a convinced anti-militarist and ecologist, and he lived in accordance with his principles. Now that we have a name, we hope to be able to use it soon for a new relay. Of course, we still welcome more donations [2]. Although we want to keep diversity in the Tor network, there is room to increase Nos Oignons' bandwidth. ~ /~ \ \ /** \ //// // // // // ///&// / & /\ \ / & .,, \ /& % : \ /& % : ; `\ /&' &..% !.. `.\ _____ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______ _ /&' : &''" ! ``. : `.\ |_ _| | | | / \ | \ | | |/ / ___|| | /#' % : "" * . : : `.\ | | | |_| | / _ \ | \| | ' /\___ \| | I# :& : !" * `. : :: I | | | _ |/ ___ \| |\ | . \ ___) |_| I &% : : !%.` '. . : : : I |_| |_| |_/_/ \_\_| \_|_|\_\____/(_) I && :%: .&. . . : : : I I %&&&%%: WW. .%. : : I \&&&##%%%`W! & ' : ,'/ \####ITO%% W &..' #,'/ \W&&##%%&&&&### %./ \###j[\##//##}/ ++///~~\//_ [Berrito] \\ \ \ \ \_ / / \ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Grothendieck [2]: https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html

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Five days left to pick the name of our next relay !
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

======================================================================== - Nos Oignons --- Five days left to pick the name of our next relay ! -- =========================================================== 2015-09-10 = We have reached the final days of our donation run for 2015 [1]. It's still time to take part in the competition to pick the name of the next relay that Nos Oignons will setup. Adopt an onion! --------------- For any donation [2] above 2€, you can send an email to <adopte.un.oignon(a)nos-oignons.net> with your proposal for a name. Don't forget to mention the date and the donated amount. The name for our next relay will be picked between 3 randomly chosen proposals, and will be announced on September 15th. For inspiration, you can elaborate on our current homages to political philosphy (Marcuse) [3], an universe in which humans help each others through an interplanetary communication network (Ekumen) [4], or to a character fighting against a life of boredom (Marylou) [5]. Today, Nos Oignons brings more than 500 Mbit/s of bandwidth to the Tor network [6], a bit less than 4% of its exit capacity. Help us continue to protect online communications! [1]: https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2015/ [2]: https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/ [3]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/EFAE44728264982224445E96214C15F9075DE… [4]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9BA84E8C90083676F86C7427C8D105925F137… [5]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/578E007E5E4535FBFEF7758D8587B07B4C8C5… [6]: https://nos-oignons.net/Services/

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"Adopt an onion" campaign
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

"Adopt an onion [1]" campaign (part of : "Contibute to Tor network with Nos oignons" https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2015/index.en.html ) >From June 15th to August 15th, for any donation above 2 €, you can propose a name of our next Tor relay ! For the records, our current relays are named : "Marcuse", "Ekumen" and "Marylou". Herbert Marcuse was a 20th century marxist philosopher and sociologist. In "One-Dimensional Man" he critics consumerism as a form of social control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man This name has been chosen to claim the wish of an Internet that is not only a space for consumption. Ekumen is an intergalactic political organisation in the Ursula Le Guin science-fiction work. >From Wikipedia : Ekumen was made possible thanks to the invention of the "ansible", a machine capable of instantaneous transmission of information. The physical trip nevertheless still subject to classic physical principles, meaning there is no way to go faster than light speed. This constraint renders the creation of a military force impossible. Such force would not make any sense : most of the protagonists of a conflict would die before they get there. It is then mostly a space of sharing knowledge for the common good. Marylou is a character from the novel "Mocking Bird" by Walter Tevis. In this novel, the robots handle all the labor, and mankind is reduced to consuming government-provided tranquilisers. Marylou is a rebel woman in this system, who illegaly lives in a Zoo by exploiting the robots' flaws. There, she meets Paul Bentley, one of the few who still knows how to read, and Spoffort, an android desperatly looking for a way to commit suicide. Marylou leads those two others characters through a search for liberty and meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_%28Tevis_novel%29 To contribute, send an email to adopt.an.onion(a)nos-oignons.net, with the day, hour, amount and mean of payment (transfer, cash, paypal, bitcoin) of your donation, along with your suggestion. We will choose between 3 proposals, picked up randomly (and, if we like some of the non-chosen proposals, we won't forget them for our followings relays :) ) We are waiting for your ideas ! Nos oignons [1] : About the name: in French the idiom for “mind your own business” is “mind your own onions”. So, we are minding ours, and these are your onions. See https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html --

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The Tor network needs you!
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Contribute to Tor network with Nos oignons. -> https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2015/index.en.html Billions of people are nowadays using the Tor network to protect their privacy. At least one connection over fifty will exits by one of our Nos oignons relays [1]. We need you to continue. In a context of renew threats on our freedom, Tor is a way to protect our privacy in the digital world. An exit node costs us a bit less than 300€ per month. We have currently 3 months of cash advance. One-time givings will allow Nos oignons to maintain currents relays. Regulars donations will allow us to see further and set up new relays ! You can donate with cash donations, bitcoins, flattr, paypal and transfer. You can obtain our RIB by mailing at donate(a)nos-oignons.net . Thanks for your help, Nos oignons. [1]: https://nos-oignons.net/Services/ --

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500 Mbit/s added to the Tor network
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

======================================================================== - Nos oignons --- 500 Mbit/s added to the Tor network ------------------ =========================================================== 2015-02-05 = A year after the first nodes [1] run by Nos oignons, we have launched a new node [2], hosted by a French non-profit Tetaneutral [3]. This new relay, running since Saturday November 15th 2014, will be moving more and more traffic until it gets to its theoretical capacity of 500 Mbit/s. We named this new node Marylou with reference to the character of the novel Mockingbird [4] written by Walter Tevis. Thus Marylou is joining the 3 other nodes [5] set up by Nos oignons. In order to limit the use of physical space and the power consumption, Marylou is running on an Intel NUC I5-4520, 8GB of RAM DDR3 so-dimm and a SSD Crucial M500 of 120GB. We would like to thank all the people who helped to make possible its implementation. Thanks to the membership fees and the other numerous donations, Nos oignons has enough funds to run the nodes for 6 months. We want to set up more exit nodes and every donation counts [6]. Get involved to help Tor development in France and defend our electronic communications freedoms! [1] : https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20131127_125_mbits_de_plus_pour_le_… [2] : https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/578E007E5E4535FBFEF7758D8587B07B4C8C5… [3] : http://tetaneutral.net/ [4] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_%28Tevis_novel%29 [5] : https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html [6] : https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html

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Reports, posters, and conferences
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

======================================================================== - Nos Oignons --- Reports, posters, and conferences -------------------- =========================================================== 2014-06-23 = Nos Oignons has just lived its first year. The activity report for 2012-2014 [1] and the financial report for year 2013 [2] (both in French) have been approved by the general assembly. Together with renewing the mandate for the current board. In order to better understand what Tor protects, Nos Oignons has printed 1000 A2 posters [3] (in French, size 420 × 594 mm). Based on the Tor and HTTPS visualization [4] initially made by the EFF [5], they will be available on a “give what you can, take what you need” basis. In pictures: https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20140623_rapports_affiches_et_confe… https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20140623_rapports_affiches_et_confe… Events happening next weeks will be good opportunities to get one. Volunteers from Nos Oignons will be in Paris for Pas Sage En Seine 2014 [6], Foire à l’autogestion 2014 [7], and the Tails HackFest 2014 [8]; also in Montpellier for the Libre Software Meeting 2014 [9]. For those who can be there and who would like to show support, contact us [10]. We should be able to arrange postal expeditions. [1]: https://nos-oignons.net/Association/Rapport_moral_2012-2014.pdf [2]: https://nos-oignons.net/Association/Rapport_financier_2013.pdf [3]: https://nos-oignons.net/Diffusez/nos-oignons-affiche-tor-et-https-201406-fr… [4]: https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/tor-and-https/fr/tor-and-https.svg [5]: https://www.eff.org/ [6]: http://www.passageenseine.org/Passage/PSES-2014 [7]: http://www.foire-autogestion.org/3e-Foire-a-l-autogestion-les-28-et [8]: https://tails.boum.org/news/Join_us_at_the_Tails_HackFest_2014/index.en.html [9]: https://2014.rmll.info/?lang=en [10]: https://nos-oignons.net/Contact/index.en.html

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125 Mbit/s added to the Tor network
by Newsletter from ”Nos oignons” 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

======================================================================== - Nos Oignons --- 125 Mbit/s added to the Tor network ------------------ =========================================================== 2013-11-27 = This Autumn, Nos Oignons increased the capacity of the Tor network by 125 Mbit/s through three new exit nodes [1]. It has not been easy to transform our first server [2] into an exit node. After several months and repeated calls, an anonymous donor finally provided hardware that was powerful enough. We then had to get through remaining administrative matters before we could put the 100 Mbit/s provided by Liazo [3] at the service of the Tor users. For technical reasons, the load is split among two relays, named marcuse1 [4] and marcuse2 [5]. In addition to these two relays, ekumen [6] started its life as an exit node in October. Four months earlier, the hosting company Gandi [7] changed the pricing [8] (fr) of its virtual machine. Several Tor relay operators had to cut their relays off after the shift. When we contacted Gandi to discuss the issue, they offered to sponsor a 25 Mbit/s exit node. Nos Oignons started its operation at the end of the summer. Thanks to member subscriptions and many donations, our non-profit organization should have enough funds to continue its current operations for the next ten months. We want to setup new exit nodes: every donation [9] will help! During the summer, Nos Oignons was present at several meetings and conferences: the 14th Libre Software Meeting [10] in Brussels, a meeting with other torservers.net partners [11] in Munich, the OHM2013 camp [12] near Amsterdam, DebConf13 [13] close to Yverdon-les-Bains, and more recently with a talk [14] at the Ubuntu Party 13.10 in Paris. Thanks to everyone who took the opportunity to show their support to the Tor network and Nos Oignons' project! [1] https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html [2] https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20130702_conferences_et_premier_rel… [3] http://www.liazo.fr/ [4] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/011FDD1EE84DAC7758119B69829C74A9D197B… [5] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/1A503BBFFC82A4EFD75DB46A071A7340E11A9… [6] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7F2CD6BD548C5FFA09B20A0C5CB07893C9451… [7] https://www.gandi.net/ [8] http://www.lebardegandi.net/post/2013/04/25/L-IaaS-va-passer-en-paiement-%C… [9] https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html [10] http://2013.rmll.info/fr/ [11] https://www.torservers.net/partners.html [12] http://ohm2013.org/ [13] http://debconf13.debconf.org/ [14] https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20131127_125_mbits_de_plus_pour_le_…

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