This seemingly counter-intuitive marriage of one service that promotes online anonymization and another that profits off the personal information of its user-base abrades logical thinking - at least on the surface. “In other contexts such behaviour might suggest that a hacked account is being accessed through a ‘botnet’, but for Tor this is normal.”
“Tor challenges some assumptions of Facebook’s security mechanisms – for example its design means that from the perspective of our systems a person who appears to be connecting from Australia at one moment may the next appear to be in Sweden or Canada,” explained Alec Muffett, a Software Engineer for Security Infrastructure at Facebook London. Many of the problems that Tor users have experienced when attempting to log into Facebook arise from well-intentioned security controls built into the social network’s infrastructure. Your connection is also end-to-end encrypted, that is to say there is no exit relay in the picture here that can see that you are browsing Facebook over Tor.” onion site without running into any of these issues. “Now, you can log on and also register – to Facebook over Tor by using the. “Using normal Facebook over Tor was often a challenge for many reasons users would have trouble logging in, be forced to identify friends in photos, be forced to change passwords, and so on,” Runa Sandvik, a Tor advocate and project volunteer credited with assisting and advising Facebook, told Threatpost in an email interview. In the past, Tor users have had issues connecting anonymously to Facebook. These servers are referred to as Tor Hidden Services. Tor users can connect with similarly anonymized Web-servers located in the “.onion” top level domain. The Tor Project is an Internet-traffic anonymization service that relays user traffic through a number of proxy servers all around the world in order to cloak true IP addresses and identities.
UPDATE – This story has been updated with commentary from the Tor Project.įacebook announced today that the social network will now be directly available to users as a Tor hidden service.
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