I’ve updated the Raspberry Bridge build to 1.5.1Beta to update a few things and address a couple issues. The main changes are: updated Tor to latest stable release updated obfsproxy updated OS including some security patches Download Torrent: http://rbb.antitree.com/torrents/RBBlatest.torrent More info: http://rbb.antitree.com/

The Meek Protocol has recently been getting a lot of attention since the Tor project made a few blog posts about it. Meek is a censorship evasion protocol that users a tactic called “domain fronting” to evade DPI-based censorship tactics. The idea is that using a CDN such as Google, Akamai, or Cloudflare, you can proxy connections (using the TLS SNI extension) so that if an adversary wanted to block or drop your connection, they would need to block connections to the CDN, like Google; mutually assured destruction.

Over at rbb.antitree.com, you’ll see the details of a new project of mine: To build a Raspberry Pi environment to make it easy for anyone to run a Tor Bridge node. The goal here has been to release an RBP image that is minimalist (in terms of storage consumption as well as resource consumption) and provides the necessary tools to run and maintain a Tor Bridge Node on a Raspberry Pi.

If you’re like me, you’re probably getting inundated with posts about how the latest revelations show that NSA specifically tracks Tor users and the privacy conscious. I wanted to provide some perspective of how XKeyscore fits into an overall surveillance system before jumping out of our collective pants. As I’ve written about before, the Intelligence Lifecycle (something that the NSA and other Five Eyes know all to well) consists more-or-less of these key phases: Identify, Collect, Process, Analyze, and Disseminate.