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Human Rights Watch has accused Saudi Arabia of using U.S.-made cluster munition rockets in at least seven attacks in the Yemeni city of Hajjah between late April and mid-July. Dozens of civilians were killed or […]

President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour during which he will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Alaska Arctic. On Monday, Obama highlighted the dangers posed by […]

Obama Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Change During Arctic VisitObama to Call for New Icebreakers amid Military Escalation in ArcticSyria: U.N. Confirms ISIL’s Destruction of Ancient Temple of BelIraq: […]

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, an organization that says its purpose is to advance “equal opportunity and civil rights” in the media, has faced criticism in the past that the organi […]

Imagine if the inventor of the Segway claimed to own “any thing that moves in response to human commands.” Or if the inventor of the telegraph applied for a patent covering any use of electric current for com […]

Florida Case Allowing Unconstitutional Mobile Phone Tracking Needs Review by High CourtWashington D.C.—Americans have the right to expect that digital records of their daily travels—when they left home, where the […]

The United States’ excessive copyright terms have led to an orphan works crisis in this country. Tens of thousands of books, films, music recordings, and other cultural works across decades have been made […]

I have a prediction: Charles and David Koch will soon announce they’re backing Bernie Sanders for president.
Here’s my logic, which is irrefutable:
We know the Koch brothers, and the organizations they fund, hate […]

Often overlooked in discussions of the USA FREEDOM Act passed in June are the changes made to the National Security Letter (NSL) statute. The law addresses some of the more obvious problems with NSLs but fails, by […]

Project Secret Identity is back. 
EFF is returning to Dragon Con, the science fiction and fantasy convention in Atlanta, Georgia, for a Labor Day weekend of cosplay activism. This year’s privacy campaign will be […]

In Egypt, Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste were sentenced over the weekend to three years in jail for “spreading false news” that purportedly harmed Egypt following the 2013 […]

Weeks after approving Shell’s plans to drill in Alaska, President Obama is heading to the state to warn about the dangers of climate change. “Alaska’s glaciers are melting faster, too, threatening tourism and add […]

The European Union has called for emergency talks to address the rapidly growing number of people fleeing to Europe to escape violence and unrest in Syria, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, sub-Saharan […]

EU Calls Emergency Talks on Migrant CrisisObama Arrives in Alaska for Trip Focused on ClimateObama to Restore Mount McKinley’s Alaska Native Name, “Denali”Dominica: Tropical Storm Erika Kills 20, Wreaks […]

Welcome to the thirty-third issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Hash visualizations to protect against onion phishing
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A new release for the alpha Tor Browser is available for download in the 5.5a2 distribution directory and on the alpha download page.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Additionally, we […]

On Friday, an appeals court overturned a U.S. District Court decision last May that had declared that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was beyond the authorization of the […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion today in Klayman v. Obama is highly disappointing and, worse, based on a mistaken concern about the underlying facts. The court said that since the pla […]

Dueling forces of encryption and government censorship came to a head in Russia this week in the form of an order to block Wikipedia. One Wikipedia article in particular (about charas hashish) was deemed to run […]

Californians, please help us stop A.B. 1326 
We’re deeply concerned about A.B. 1326, a misguided virtual currency licensing proposal moving quickly through the California legislature. We’ve blogged about the prob […]