Tian Jian's learning platform TJ Field School is running a two-session series on digital security and privacy. Toomore from our community gave the first session on 12 August, and Mashbean takes the second on 26 August. Registration is still open.
Both sessions are conducted in Mandarin Chinese.
Journalists need to protect sources, civil-society groups need to keep member lists and donor records safe, developers want to know whether the tools in their hands actually hold up against surveillance, and ordinary people rattled by scam texts or ad tracking just want a little control back. Under spreading censorship and monitoring, these needs land on the same set of risks: traffic can be intercepted, identities can be traced, and the timing and amount of a single transfer can reconstruct an entire web of relationships.
The Anonymity Networks Community (anoni.net) brings a year of hands-on work with Tor, Tails, and OONI (open-source privacy and anti-censorship tools), plus personal privacy and anonymous payments, to the open-source floor of COSCUP 2026. Across two days at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, we run a full community track, from how the internet and censorship work, through real-world open-source privacy tools, campus Tor nodes, browser tracking, and the national health-insurance database and data-privacy rights, to an anonymous-payments session co-organized with ETHTaipei (Taipei Ethereum Community). Whether you came looking for tools you can use right away or want to contribute to open-source projects, there is a session for you.
Event details
TR-510; the Aug 8 afternoon session co-organized with ETHTaipei is in TR-511.
This time, we’re heading south to Kaohsiung (a.k.a. Takao) to participate in the “g0v Hackath71n – g0v the 71st Hackathon.” If you happen to be in southern Taiwan during this period, or if you’d like to travel south to Kaohsiung together—combining a short trip with a few days of remote work while joining the event—feel free to come find us at the hackathon. We’ve registered a booth to help move forward the progress of the “Anonymous Online Community” 2026 project!
At the moment, it looks like there are still a few spots available. If you’re interested in our project and would like to contribute, you’re very welcome to join us on the day of the event—no matter your background or area of expertise.
After presenting InterSecLab's report on data leakage related to the Great Firewall of China at the "Taipei Coffee and Circumvention Meetup 2025/10," there were many discussions during the latter part of the event. The questions centered around what actions we can ultimately take in the face of state-level surveillance methods and capabilities.
The previously provided cybersecurity recommendations also need to be revisited and revised. Below, we will review some of the topics discussed that day through text. We also recommend taking some time to read this report, as it will provide a clearer outline of the risks and challenges we are facing.
This year, we have applied for a track at COSCUP and secured an opportunity to host a workshop. We are now starting to recruit event preparation staff and training course helpers. If you are interested in topics like internet freedom, internet censorship, internet surveillance, anonymous networks, etc., and willing to dedicate some time over the next three months (until 2025/08) to help us prepare and organize this workshop, please refer to the instructions on the event page for more details!
The format of the workshop will follow the style of the workshop hosted by the Tor and OONI teams in 2025/02, with the only difference being localized adjustments and conducted in Chinese.
Event Preparation Staff
Assist with event registration, notifications, promotion, and venue setup on the day of the event.
Workshop Helper
Need to understand the basic knowledge of Tor, Tails, and OONI. Assist participants during the workshop by answering questions, providing operational guidance, and helping prepare workshop course materials.
The Tor/Tails and OONI workshops successfully concluded on the afternoon and evening of February 23, 2025. Whether you participated in the entire event or not, we sincerely thank all the partners, volunteers, and the Tor and OONI teams for their involvement! To review the day's events, we have prepared a brief summary and the event presentation for your reference.
Event Agenda:
Alongside the workshop on 23 February, we have also signed up for g0v Hackath65n, the 65th hackathon run by g0v, on the day before. Our proposal there starts the 2025 OONI research goals.
There were still a few places left at the time of writing. If our projects interest you and you would like to contribute, come and join us on the day, whatever your background or field.
About g0v
g0v (pronounced "gov zero") is a decentralized civic tech community in Taiwan, formed in 2012, which runs a hackathon roughly every two months. Projects are proposed and worked on openly by whoever turns up, with no membership and no organizational hierarchy. Several widely used Taiwanese civic tech tools started there.
The event has successfully concluded. You can refer to this event recap for related topic discussions and presentations.
We are thrilled to invite you to a full-day event dedicated to online privacy, censorship circumvention, and censorship monitoring, hosted in partnership with Open Culture Foundation, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), and The Tor Project on February 23rd, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan.
This free pre-event will feature hands-on workshops and a public keynote by Roger Dingledine, co-founder of The Tor Project.
Thie event will feature:
Please register for the sessions you wish to attend by selecting the appropriate type of ticket. Due to venue limitations, some sessions have a cap on the number of participants, so please register early. The exact location of the event will be announced separately closer to the date.
Recruiting Volunteers
We are currently recruiting on-site volunteers for the event and expect to need help from 10 volunteers. If you're available on the day (even if you can't participate the entire time), please register at OCF Volunteer. We plan to begin assigning tasks soon. Thank you!