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That's a valid point. Thanks for bringing that up. So now I have a private channel to that address and I don't have to worry about the exit nodes (unlike when
by wybiral 9y ago
That's a valid point. Thanks for bringing that up.
So now I have a private channel to that address and I don't have to worry about the exit nodes (unlike when I use Tor for clearnet sites).
But now how do I know that I can trust the owner of that onion?
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoHow do you know that you can trust the owner of any domain? How can you trust anyone? That's a deep philosophical question but doesn't really have anything to do with the technology you are using?
- wybiral 9y agoReputation is a typical force in society. Businesses might want to do malicious things but the fear of destroying their identity helps to keep them in line. Personally I trust something more when someone puts their reputation on the line for it.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoWell, yeah, sure ... so how would that be any different with tor hidden services?
- nikcub 9y agoReputation is also a force in onion land. There are hidden services that are trusted and those that aren't. You see it with the drug marketplaces - users self-organize a distributed reputation system that tells other users which sites can be trusted with bitcoin and drug transactions and which cannot. It's a remarkably well functioning and resilient system - and its hosted across reddit, forums, blogs, etc.
- hedora 9y agoMaybe you know the owner personally, and obtained the onion address in person.