1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
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1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
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Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#2Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#3Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
Not if the user merely intends to get past a firewall the country has... their purpose isn't anonymity, but free communication, unfortunately they must don anonymity to achieve free communication.
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#4Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
According to the article, facebook has a .onion domain.
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#5Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
Tor does not only allow anonymity of identity, it also can provide anonymity of location and anonymity of destination.
If you are in a country or organization that would prefer you not visit Facebook, this can be useful.
If you would prefer that Facebook not know your location and IP address, this can be useful.
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#6Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
No, you retain all of the properties of Tor hidden services: censorship resistance, authenticated end-to-end encryption, onion routing that hides your source IP.
Obviously if you log into a Facebook account with your real-world identity then all actions performed on the site will be linked with it, but that is expected.
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#7Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
According to the article, facebook has a .onion domain.
The article says its https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#8Or 1 person uses 1M facebook accounts over Tor...
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#9I wonder how many of these accounts are sock puppets?
Re: 1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
#10Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
Not if the user merely intends to get past a firewall the country has... their purpose isn't anonymity, but free communication, unfortunately they must don anonymity to achieve free communication.
But if one of your friends is not really your friend, and you won't know until it's too late, they'll know you got past the firewall and that could be enough to get you into troubles. You better have to stay fully anonymous, which limits what you do on Facebook. You probably want different accounts for different groups and an empty timeline in every account.