Alexander Hansen Færøy

For any non-tech journalists out there covering this, the AI angle is the least interesting ("Person uses tool, does thing"). The interesting bit is how 70% of the worlds websites run on community maintained code. That our infrastructure is held together by spit and twine.

If you're in #Copenhagen next week, on October 28th, I'll host a presentation at the Copenhagen Rust Community's monthly meetup. The topic will be @torproject.org's effort to build our #Rust implementation of #Tor, called #Arti. Find meetup information here: www.meetup.com/copenhagen-r...

Today is September 1st, and we've reached the point where Tor 0.4.8.x is no more. We announced the sunsetting period earlier this year in our blog post at blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-t... Thanks to everybody who helped us out with testing, feedback, and making this transition happen! <3

Notes and slides from the #FOSDEM #Tor Relay Operator meetup: - Notes: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp... - Slides: ahf.me/talks/2026/0... Thanks to everybody who joined ❤️ We will definitely try to run one of these meetups again at FOSDEM in 2027!

Off to #FOSDEM. See you all soon! 🥳

Just sent out an update to the #Tor relay operator community on the upcoming stabilization of C Tor 0.4.9.x. We hope relay operators with multiple relays will upgrade quickly and enable the Happy Families system, so we can deprecate the MyFamily system quickly: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

If you're attending #FOSDEM and have an interest in the Tor network and/or #Tor relay/bridge operation, we welcome you to join our Tor Relay Operator Meetup. It will take place on Sunday, the 1st of February, from 13:00 to 14:00, in the room H.3244. For more info: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Just sent my brain dump of what happened at the #Tor Relay Operators Meetup during #39c3 to the tor-relays@ list: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp... Thanks to everybody who joined! 🥳

Back home in Copenhagen after a long December with travels to Mexico City for work meetings, Karlsruhe for a wonderful Christmas, and finally Hamburg for #39c3. It was nice to see all the friends, colleagues, and family during this month, and now it's time to sleep and recharge 🪫

We will be at #39C3 and we brought something exciting: Invitation codes for the beta phase of Air, our new secure messenger based on MLS! ✨ Hit us up if you’d like to join the beta with your friends. You can also follow @air.ms, where we’ll post updates over time.

Leibi has managed to get a spot for a #Tor Relay Operator Meetup at #39c3. Join us on day 3 at 00:00 🥳 See more info at events.ccc.de/congress/202...

En route from Mexico City to Amsterdam, the infotainment system showed our current location and highlighted exciting local attractions. Thanks to this, I learned that the University of Copenhagen's Computer Science department has moved to its new location!

Are you a project management leader passionate about privacy and human rights? 🌍🌐 The Tor Project needs a Team Lead for Project & Grant Management. Work across engineering and fundraising to ensure impactful work gets delivered on time. Visit our job listings: www.torproject.org/about/jobs/t...

This year, we managed to pull together a small #Tor community gathering here in Denmark. Georg has written a blog post about the process and the event itself at blog.torproject.org/bringing-tor... More events like this will happen in 2026! 😎

Tor's 2025 State of the Onion - Community Day is about to begin! You can follow it at xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion or via more ancient IP technology at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk... #tor

Community contributions are what power Tor, tune in Wed, Dec 10 at 1700 UTC for day 2 of our State of the Onion to hear directly from @ooni.org, The Guardian Project, @freedom.press, HushLine and more. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVk... 🧅 xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

Tor is upgrading its #relay encryption with a new encryption algorithm called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). CGO prevents attackers from tampering with encrypted traffic, adds forward secrecy, and brings Tor's encryption up to modern standards. blog.torproject.org/introducing-...

On World Kindness Day, learn how you can be kind by sharing your uncensored IP and bandwidth to help Tor users around the world guardianproject.info/2025/11/13/k... cc @torproject.org #worldkindnessday

We're live in about half an hour 📺💜🧅: on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDt... on Tor Browser as an Onion Service: xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion

🧅 Tor is a building block for a free internet that protects your privacy. As a nonprofit, we rely on donations to power our tools that are trusted by millions. Donate today to build a better internet for tomorrow and take advantage of our match! torproject.org/donate/donat...

Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal. Privacy = Freedom - there's a reason why your vote is private Please take 3 mins follow the form which emails your local politicians: fightchatcontrol.eu

Just dropped an email[1] to the tor-relays@ mailing list to figure out which #Tor relay operators are attending the upcoming #WHY2025 hacker camp in the Netherlands. Check out this thread or here for announcements of the time and date for a meetup 🥳 [1]: lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyp...

The #BornHack 2025 program is starting to take shape. Thanks to everybody who has contributed with content! We still have submissions in the queue, but we also have space for more events! If you are considering hosting a talk, workshop, lightning talk, etc., now is a perfect time to submit it!

The #BornHack 2025 Call for Participation is now open! 🥳 Please submit the content before the 1st of June! BornHack is a participatory-driven event, so we highly encourage first-time presenters to submit content! 😎 Information on how to submit content can be found at bornhack.dk/bornhack-202...

MLS is efficient, but what does that mean in practice? This paper sheds some light on the question by building a test framework for OpenMLS. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18303

I'll be in Brussels for #FOSDEM for the weekend. I look forward to hanging out with friends and colleagues from the #FOSS community! 🥳 Reach out if you want to talk about anything related to @TorProject.org, Arti, Onion Services, #privacy, etc. I will also happily chat about #BornHack 🏕️

We want to draw attention to one of the new Administration's Executive Orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world depend on to fight censorship, and protect their security and anonymity.

Hopefully for the last time? Next scheduled update: 2029-01-20 😜 #OpenPGP #Tor

Babe, wake up, the holographic #tor relay operator tracksuit, with a funky fresh circuit pattern on it, just dropped!

During the #38c3 #Tor Relay Operator meetup, I provided an update on @TorProject.org's work on the Arti project. The focus was on the project's next phase: implementing relay support in Arti. The slides are now available from

Took advantage of the holiday break to tackle my LEGO backlog a bit 🎉 #StarWars #LEGO #BrickHeadz

Looking forward to tonight's talk from Hiro and @0xggus.bsky.social about their fantastic work on keeping the @torproject.org Network healthy. The talk is tonight at 20:30 in Hall Zigzag: events.ccc.de/congress/202... #38c3 #tor #torproject

Did you bring stickers that you wish to distribute to hackers at #38c3? Feel free to drop some off at the #BornHack sticker exchange table in the Cold North cluster! 🥳

I'm at #38c3 for the next few days. I look forward to seeing friends and colleagues from the hacker community for another hopefully great event here in Hamburg! Reach out if you want to talk about anything related to #Tor. I'm mostly hanging out in the #BornHack space in the Cold North area 🥳

On our way to Hamburg and #38c3 after a lovely Christmas break with the German family! 🥳

The suffering, misery, and pain of using LaTeX for making presentations are insignificant compared to the suffering, misery, and pain of not using LaTeX for making presentations.

URGENT FOR US based folks: Tell your reps to vote NO on H.R. 9495! This dangerous bill would give the Trump administration unilateral power to label any non-profit as terrorist supporting and shut it down without due process. Learn more here: ℹ️ www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...