BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

_Understated_ wrote: post #6

Not a fan of the clickbait title... Seems a bit unfair to equate wanting to protect privacy with the dark web where people associate it with drugs and paedophiles and whatnot. Very clickbaity from the BBC.

Most people understand Tor to be the 'dark web', so I wouldn't call it clickbait. Hell, it is the dark web.

It's you who's wrongly associating it with paedophilia and drugs (both amply available on the 'clearnet') IMO, which does quite a disservice to attempts to promote Tor to the newly privacy-conscious.

'Dark' means hidden, not 'evil'.

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by Xophmeister » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 11:58 AM UTC

nyolfen wrote: post #4

i’m not sure why. if someone is already using the tor network, presumably they could use it to bypass censorship to access the clearnet bbc site.

From TFA:

    While the Tor browser can be used to access the regular version of the
    BBC News website, using the .onion site has additional benefits.
    
    "Onion services take load off scarce exit nodes, preserve end-to-end
    encryption [and] the self-authenticating domain name resists
    spoofing," explained Prof Steven Murdoch, a cyber-security expert from
    University College London.

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by oskenevd » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 12:00 PM UTC

nyolfen wrote: post #4

i’m not sure why. if someone is already using the tor network, presumably they could use it to bypass censorship to access the clearnet bbc site.

Because so much of the bbc website is http, today, in 2019. At least you now get TLS between the browser and the bbc server. Accessing bbc over Tor normally leaks cleartext http to the exit nodes.