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<p>Have you been watching the recent internet crackdowns in Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and elsewhere, and wondering how you can help? Many people when faced with internet censorship turn to tools like Tor and VPNs to bypass it, but then the governments try to block those tools too. This cat-and-mouse game led to Tor's "pluggable transport" design, where people can try different modules to transform their traffic into something the censor won't block.</p><p>One of the easiest modules to install as a volunteer to help these censored people is named Snowflake. It makes the traffic look like WebRTC (video chat) and hundreds of thousands of people around the world run Snowflakes to proxy encrypted traffic into the Tor network.</p><p>In this workshop we will join this crowd of volunteers helping censored people. Bring your iOS or Android device (and for bonus points, install the Orbot app beforehand), or bring your Linux server or VPS login, or bring your Firefox or Chromium browser. I'll talk through why it's safe to be a Snowflake proxy and/or a Snowflake user, how the protocol works, and the tradeoffs between the various ways of contributing.</p>
