Tor's Bug Bash Fund Raises $86K to Fix Critical Issues

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The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Bash Fund that will be used to pay developers to quickly fix critical bugs such as vulnerabilities or privacy issues that leak personal information about a Tor user.

 

 

Last month, the Tor Project announced that any donations made to the organization in August 2019 would be added to a Bug Bash Fund that would be used to pay for developers to fix critical bugs that come up.

 

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"Every donation Tor receives during the month of August will count towards this fund. You can help us be prepared for what bugs may come, and in turn, we can better help keep millions of people around the world safe online and an entire ecosystem of tools healthy."

 

The types of issues that the Tor Project considers critical includes vulnerabilities, privacy issues such as when the browser may leak an IP address, issues with signing certificates for Tor addons, or to evaluate and upgrade the Tor browser to new Firefox ESR releases.

 

To rapidly fix these issues, Tor must pay developers to analyze the issue, fix the code, and implement it in the Tor browser. 

 

As part of this donation drive, the Tor Project was able to raise $86K that will be used to pay for these costs and quickly fix issues that pop up.

 

For anyone who contributed money to the Bug Smash Fund, the Tor Project stated that you can track how that money is being used as they will tag any bug tickets that utilize this money with the "BugSmashFund" tag.

 

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"What’s next: as bugs come in, we will tag their trac tickets with BugSmashFund so you can follow along and watch exactly what you’ve made possible. We will also make periodic updates here on the blog and through the newsletter about our progress with these BugSmashFund tickets."

 

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