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While Facebook gets props for their astonishingly clever .onion address, it seems rather odd to promote unlinkability while continuing to enforce their legal na

While Facebook gets props for their astonishingly clever .onion address, it seems rather odd to promote unlinkability while continuing to enforce their legal names policy. I'd probably respect this a lot more if it was accompanied by setting up Tor exit nodes, which invites actual risk and things like FBI visits.

sp332 12y ago
You can at least browse public Facebook posts without logging in. But I think the main point is to avoid local censorship, reducing Tor to a simple proxy.
- diggan 12y ago
  There is no difference from accessing Facebook from .com and .onion in that case. If the main point would be to avoid local censorship, they would have a bigger effect if they instead of focusing power on running a hidden service, spent the effort on running an exit node.
nly 12y ago
> it seems rather odd to promote unlinkability They're not, they just want users on networks that block facebook.com, or try to perform MITM (by hijacking DNS or the switch from HTTP to HTTPS), to be able to reach them safely.
frostmatthew 12y ago
> while continuing to enforce their legal names policy They've recently announced they plan to ease the real name policy http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/facebook-agrees-to-ease-rules-on-real-names/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/facebook-agrees-to-...