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I thought .onion addresses were for anonymous hidden services, which Facebook is not. What's the advantage of accessing a .onion versus using Tor to visit the
by agildehaus 11y ago
I thought .onion addresses were for anonymous hidden services, which Facebook is not. What's the advantage of accessing a .onion versus using Tor to visit the normal facebook.com?
- loeg 11y agoTOR is also useful for routing around damage (censorship).
- dublinben 11y agoTry reading the introductory blog post[0] before asking redundant questions. [0] https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-conn...
- chrisfosterelli 11y agoIf you are using TOR to connect to facebook.com, your connection has to leave the TOR network. This gives a lot of power and control to whoever is your exit node out of the network. Although they can't see who you are, they have full MiTM of your traffic. SSL helps a lot with this obviously, but it's still not the most ideal scenario. Traffic directed to hidden services never "leaves" the TOR network, so it doesn't hand over any control to exit nodes and the (possibly malicious) people running them.