Mastodawn

With trump declaring war on Iran a couple weeks back, my #tor snowflake has been flooded with people anonymizing their identity.

Currently I've received 21 people accessing my relay in the past 2 hours. For scale, I've kept snowflake on for days before the war and have gotten about 9 or 10 people using snowflake.

Anyone who may have a burner phone/laptop install orbot or the snowflake Firefox extension to let people circumvent the internet.

Let's keep the internet a safe place!

#tor #orbot

Vorinstanz

Mar 27

#Orbot ist eine App, die das Handy anonym(er) macht, Verbindung durch das #Tor -Netzwerk leitet. Dieses funktioniert mit Eingangs-, Mittel- und Exitknoten: kein Knoten sieht alles.

Orbot bietet einen wesentlichen Schritt in Richtung Anonymisierung #Privacy #Datenschutz

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lorax Mar 14

@autonomysolidarity Also with the #Orbot app for Android

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dasgrueneblatt Mar 9

Die Nutzung der Schneeflocken ist dramatisch eingebrochen.

Ich hab jetzt seit ca drei Wochen zusätzlich Orbot auf dem Handy installiert, und dabei nur den "Freundlichkeitsmodus" aktiviert, was in etwa der Funktionalität von Snowflake entspricht.

Die Anzahl der Verbindungen in der dritten Woche ist ca ein Sechstel derer in den beiden Wochen davor. Der Zeitpunkt entspricht ziemlich genau der Sperre des Iranischen Internets. 😬

Auf PC/Laptop hab ich überhaupt nur mehr 1-2 Verbindungen pro Tag. 😟

https://snowflake.torproject.org

https://orbot.app

#snowflake #tor #orbot #snowflakeProxy #zensurUmgehen

Snowflake

IAintShootinMis Mar 4

This makes me infinitely happy. Especially in light of everything happening in the world. Its a small measured way to make a difference.

#Orbot #tor #censorship #security #privacy

F-Droid Mar 2

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live today:

* website improvements
* more clients add banners #Flicky #NeoStore about #keepandroidopen
* #Conversations_im asks #XMPP admins to update their servers
* last #Ente Photos for x86 ABIs
* #RHVoice update
* waiting for #Orbot? Get #TorVPN
+ three new apps
& 210 updates

Get reading: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/27/twif.html

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yeenghelabi Feb 14

@Just_Smile
#Orbot
#InviZiblePro and snowflake bridge

Daniel Gultsch Feb 12

I’m considering removing explicit Tor support in #Conversations_im. It seems that nowadays—12 years after I first introduced the feature—VPN mode is how most people use #Orbot, and many other apps lack a dedicated "proxy via Tor" setting anyway. Let’s do a vibe check with the following poll:

Proxy

23.9%

VPN mode

26.8%

No Tor

49.3%

Poll ended at Feb 15 at 12:46pm.

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Kevin Karhan

Feb 11

@ariadne @fluttersh yes, and you can tunnel all that through @torproject / #Tor via @guardianproject #Orbot and run said #Mailserver as an #OnionService (and without amy external links to other eMail servers!), reducing not just cost compared to a regular mailserver but also making it very exensive and hard to track down not just users but the Server itself.

And if we consider state-sponsired attackers then that's propably the way to go, alongside hardened procedures re: #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec, #ComSec in general…
- Cuz no app/service on it's own is the magic bullet!

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] > The whole "Metadata" discussion is for the most part FUD by Signal fans. lmao no it isn't. CIA kills based on metadata.

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Light Feb 5

@ggus
Was running one using #Orbot kindness mode but it seemed to make my phone hot and my battery run down fast. Bug? Any advice? Currently on 17.8.0-RC-3-tor-0.4.8.21
Also, is it worth enabling for mobile data or is that intensive on data?

Was thinking of running one on an RPi but since we have a static IP maybe not as effective? Is a regular bridge better?