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About time (even though it was in 2015). I was afraid that someone was going to buy .onion and use it to deanonymize people who thought they were on TOR when th
by eriknstr 10y ago
About time (even though it was in 2015). I was afraid that someone was going to buy .onion and use it to deanonymize people who thought they were on TOR when they were not.
- vortico 10y agoTHIS is the important point of this post. It might be "cool" that they now recognize the TLD now, but I can't imagine the chaos it would cause if .onion was purchased.
- sandworm101 10y agoThere were plans for that contigency. Tor would have moved to some other tld (ie .onionland). The tor browser bundle would update bookmarks and probably issue a warning for .onion addresses. Annoyance but not chaos.
- dawnerd 10y agoI think the fear would be from people not familiar enough with tor to think any ol' .onion link was anonymous.
- temprature 10y agoThis can already happen with existing TLDs, for example: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion.link https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion.link DDG themselves used to link to that URL in thee instant answer box if you searched for "duckduckgo onion", and I don't think anyone who isn't familiar with TLDs and Tor would realise what is happening there.
- TomMarius 10y agoNot everyone updates immediately, or even has access to updates.
- agildehaus 10y agoMany web browsers have predictive services built-in to the address bar. Some are even enabled by default. Google has undoubtedly seen .onion addresses submitted.
- chungy 10y agoThis is why the Tor Browser is a thing.