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Interestingly you can "own" an Onion address for a Tor hidden service quite easily. You know the private key and nobody else does, so nobody can take your addre
by jstanley 6y ago
Interestingly you can "own" an Onion address for a Tor hidden service quite easily. You know the private key and nobody else does, so nobody can take your address away from you.
- zamadatix 6y agoYeah .onion addresses fall into the bucket of signing things (which works) and trying to get people to care enough to use it (which usually doesn't outside of extreme niches). An interesting note on Onion addresses though is the top supercomputer is already at the level to be able to brute force collisions for any onion address in a little over a decade. I expect within about 10 years when this becomes a more imminent problem names will become longer.
- SpelingBeeChamp 6y agoIf it's known that you are the owner a court can theoretically take it away from you. (Or at least jail you if you don't hand it over.)
- jstanley 6y agoPerfect. That's the same level of ownership that you have over anything physical, which is the level of ownership that the comment I was replying to was saying is hard to achieve on the Internet.