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The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

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Re: The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

#3

So is it now "guaranteed", that TOR is secure? And how many "guarantees" does one need in order to be "guaranteed" security whilst browsing? [...]and they provide additional guarantees that readers are connected securely to our website.[...]

Are you just nitpicking the difference between the phrase "provide additional guarantees" and the verb "guarantee"? Why?

> So is it now "guaranteed", that TOR is secure?

Your quote does not imply that

Re: The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

#5
On one hand it can be appreciated to see a movement of mainstream media making itself accessible to anyone anywhere. Preserving and enhancing the global flow of information is of utmost importance.

On the other hand, who on earth wants to read the New York Times?

Re: The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

#7

So is it now "guaranteed", that TOR is secure? And how many "guarantees" does one need in order to be "guaranteed" security whilst browsing? [...]and they provide additional guarantees that readers are connected securely to our website.[...]

Tor crypto guarantees an E2E connection to an entity possessing a key which matches the onion address which you sought to access. That's a benefit over DNS/TCP/BGP :-)

Re: The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

#10
And they're using an Extended Validation certificate from DigiCert for it

    CN = nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    OU = Technology
    O = The New York Times Company
    Object Identifier (2 5 4 15) = Private Organization
along with some other addresses

    DNS Name: nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
    DNS Name: *.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
    DNS Name: *.dev.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
    DNS Name: *.stg.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
    DNS Name: *.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.api.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.api.dev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.api.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.blogs.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.blogs5.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.dev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.dev.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.newsdev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.prd.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.sbx.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.stg.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: *.stg.newsdev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: www.bestsellers.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
    DNS Name: www.homedelivery.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
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