Imagine if CloudFlare or another CDN provider were to automatically public websites on Tor. This would be huge to drive legitimate traffic into the system. It should be trivial to publish your content on Tor as well as the clear web.
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
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#102I am annoyed by the clickbait title. it is like calling knife as murder weapon.
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No, because the Tor Browser sends all traffic through the tor network and exit nodes.
Why is that bad, per se ? In practice some sites drop Tor connections, and localisations come through wrong, but that doesn't seem to be why you said "no".
It actually reduces the security because exit nodes are likely to MITM you.
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Donations are probably better, because while that hardware is helpful, it's the ISP connections that are hard to come by. If you host a Tor exit node on your home network connection, Comcast is likely going to shut down your service for abuse/TOS violations. Having some rack space in a datacenter is far more valuable and better supported by donations.
How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Donations are probably better, because while that hardware is helpful, it's the ISP connections that are hard to come by. If you host a Tor exit node on your home network connection, Comcast is likely going to shut down your service for abuse/TOS violations. Having some rack space in a datacenter is far more valuable and better supported by donations.
How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?
In terms of non-exit Tor relays, it doesn't. In fact, for anyone looking at your traffic, Tor relaying is opaque, unlike legal torrents.
As for exits, you'll be dealing with abuse reports from countless parties, including the off-chance that someone sends a death threat through your exit and you have may to fend off law-enforcement that still hasn't gotten the memo on Tor. In countries, like the US where any police encounter might turn deadly, I'd highly advise against running exits at home.
As a Tor exit operator, I can in fact honestly tell you not to run exits on production business networks, or basically anywhere where you're not prepared to be a recipient of a lot of unwanted attention.
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#106Ethereum has contract call ENS (Ethereum Name Service). It's kind of like a decentralized DNS. People are starting to use that to create .eth domain names that point to .onion sites. https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/list-of-ens-nam...
Why is this of interest?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Donations are probably better, because while that hardware is helpful, it's the ISP connections that are hard to come by. If you host a Tor exit node on your home network connection, Comcast is likely going to shut down your service for abuse/TOS violations. Having some rack space in a datacenter is far more valuable and better supported by donations.
How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?
In principle, pretty much any crime you can commit over tor, you can also commit over BitTorrent. For instance, you could advertise your assassination services by writing up a document, making a torrent of it, and then distribute the magnet link for that torrent on floppy diskettes... or whatever.
In practice, though, TOR is more convenient for such things because a resource's name (the onion address) doesn't change when the content does. This difference makes it rather unlikely that you're going to find the lets-make-an-illegal-deal crowd gathering around BitTorrent.
But legally, and from the ISP's perspective, seeding a torrent with incriminating content is no different than running a TOR exit node that happens to be trafficking that content--it's just that since they attract different crowds, one is more likely to attract the wrong kind of attention than the other.
Also, you get to choose what you seed on BitTorrent, but when you run an exit node, you don't. So you're unlikely to even know what kind of incriminating content is going through your internet connection.
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#108I am annoyed by the clickbait title. it is like calling knife as murder weapon.
Dark web isn't inherently negative though, is it? It's not like they called it pedo-web.
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You can do this in Firefox. Open about:config and search "dotonion". Toggle it. The other arrangements are left up to you.
But this will need you to start the Tor deamon separately and configure the two I guess? Not as simple as just using Tor browser, or a Tor tab in Brave...
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#110BBC World News has a similar purpose as Voice of America (VOA) and Russia Today (RT). The purpose is to deliver the viewpoint of the UK to other countries, such as Iran, Russia, China.
No, you're thinking of Fox News & Daily Mail. Sure, there is some criticism of BBC news, but I don't think you could ever compare it to the junk filled propaganda machine that is RT.
I read a lot of RT. Many of their articles are just international reports like AP news and stuff. Don’t really see a lot of propaganda.