Facebook releases .onion URL, so you can access it through TOR

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Quote from: efiin on November 02, 2014, 09:55:14 AM

Quote from: RoadTrain on November 02, 2014, 09:31:02 AM

Quote from: awesome31312 on November 02, 2014, 08:01:45 AM

I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

E.g. you don't want your ISP to know you're visiting Facebook.
After all, TOR gives you flexibility in privacy, it's up to you how to use it.

Why wouldn't you want them knowing your using Facebook though? I don't understand how that benefits anyone. Most isp allow facebook.

This is only true in the US. Many other countries are not quite as friendly to people who are trying to converse together with others in the way that facebook allows people to converse and associate with particular ideals

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result in phishing ye true.

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Quote from: efiin on November 02, 2014, 09:55:14 AM

Quote from: RoadTrain on November 02, 2014, 09:31:02 AM

Quote from: awesome31312 on November 02, 2014, 08:01:45 AM

I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

E.g. you don't want your ISP to know you're visiting Facebook.
After all, TOR gives you flexibility in privacy, it's up to you how to use it.

Why wouldn't you want them knowing your using Facebook though? I don't understand how that benefits anyone. Most isp allow facebook.

And some don't. You know, a lot of Iranians access facebook via Tor.

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Exactly. Some countries or even employers etc don't allow access, but I don't see why you need a tor address anyway when you can just visit the normal url via it.

I heard that if you access FB via Tor as usual, your account can get automatically blocked because you accessed it from another country. Tor service helps to alleviate this.

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Quote from: RoadTrain on November 02, 2014, 09:31:02 AM

Quote from: awesome31312 on November 02, 2014, 08:01:45 AM

I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

E.g. you don't want your ISP to know you're visiting Facebook.
After all, TOR gives you flexibility in privacy, it's up to you how to use it.

Exactly. Some countries or even employers etc don't allow access, but I don't see why you need a tor address anyway when you can just visit the normal url via it.

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Quote from: Elwar on November 02, 2014, 10:05:49 AM

translation:

NSA wants you to make it easier to associate a name with a node

Thanks for explaining it, a lot of people misunderstood the point of my post

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Viva Ut Vivas

translation:

NSA wants you to make it easier to associate a name with a node

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Quote from: RoadTrain on November 02, 2014, 09:31:02 AM

Quote from: awesome31312 on November 02, 2014, 08:01:45 AM

I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

E.g. you don't want your ISP to know you're visiting Facebook.
After all, TOR gives you flexibility in privacy, it's up to you how to use it.

Why wouldn't you want them knowing your using Facebook though? I don't understand how that benefits anyone. Most isp allow facebook.

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This gives me the idea most Tor nodes have been compromised and now it doesn't make a difference because they'll know who you are anyway.

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Quote from: awesome31312 on November 02, 2014, 08:01:45 AM

I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

E.g. you don't want your ISP to know you're visiting Facebook.
After all, TOR gives you flexibility in privacy, it's up to you how to use it.

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I don't get the point, TOR is meant to conceal your identity, using TOR on Facebook projects a terrible understanding of how it works

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We don't even need onion url to access facebook on TOR, last year they asked security check when we access from different country, but now we can access fb on TOR without any security check.

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Thug for life!

This will likely result in a lot of phishing sites popping up pretending to be the facebook hidden service.

Assuming however that a user correctly accesses the facebook .onion site, they will be much more safe using tor as they would not be subject to potential MITM attacks as they were previously

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Presenting the worst late April fools prank of the year.

"Alec Muffet, software engineer for security infrastructure for Facebook, announced that “Internet users who use the Tor browser to protect their anonymity can now visit Facebook via a special .onion address: facebookcorewwwi.onion.”

"This URL comes with an SSL certificate and “makes Facebook the first website with a Certificate Authority, a digital certificate that guarantees that the recipient is indeed who he claims to be, to launch a Tor-exclusive version with a certified connection to its URL.”"

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