I 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.
It's very negative.
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
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Is it worth it to donate, or to just pool a little cash and start your own? Like, how do I know any of those links aren't the NSA? I ask because I have 5-6 Raspberry Pis, a couple retired Supermicro boxes, and old Cisco gear that isn't doing much...
>Like, how do I know any of those links aren't the NSA? Well, I've only linked to communities listed by the Tor Project itself. Otherwise, the same way you would check whether HN or your local tea store is the NSA. You do your own research, run your own risk analysis, and if you want to stay sane, by default you give people the benefit of the doubt. Generally, it's best not to run Tor relays from home as services wil…
Do you confuse relays with exit nodes? Which services block relays?
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I guess it is probably because most people are using desktops/laptops to browse HN. I feel like Emoji use on QWERTY keyboards is harder/less common. It is possible though: 🇺🇳
i was referring to the fact that last time i checked, HN stripped emoji. hold on let me check: edit: yeah, my cat got removed :/ I guess they're distinguished by unicode block: the regional indicator letters are "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement", and emoji are "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs". still not sure why remove them though
Can you see my UN flag? I also posted one of their easter island faces but that got stripped.
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#134> The BBC has made its international news website available via the Tor network, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts.
Bit ironic given that the influence of the government at the BBC.
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#135Imagine 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.
Someone always mentions that it is already easier to publish website via tor because you don't need ip address and dns record.
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#136Not 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'.
You can nitpick all you want but both the "dark" and "hidden" words sound sinister to a lot of people.
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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 e…
Even non-exit nodes can put you in a bad spot (my ISP didn't like it), you'll get blacklisted by quite a few places (because not everyone got the memo that middle nodes != exit nodes)
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It actually reduces the security because exit nodes are likely to MITM you.
So install an extension to block non-HTTPS pages and you're golden
fwiw, Tor Browser comes with HTTPS Everywhere, though you need to click the add-on's icon and enable "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" to block non-HTTPS.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
i was referring to the fact that last time i checked, HN stripped emoji. hold on let me check: edit: yeah, my cat got removed :/ I guess they're distinguished by unicode block: the regional indicator letters are "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement", and emoji are "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs". still not sure why remove them though
Can you see my UN flag? I also posted one of their easter island faces but that got stripped.
But I had to zoom right in to see which flag it was. So it fails as a flag.
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> Finally a good use for my license fee! While I agree that no news corporation should ever be censored and should be accessible to all including the "dark-web", the level of clickbait / fake-news level content on the BBC website is getting ridiculous in some areas and contradicts with their duty to be fair, impartial and balanced as the only UK state broadcaster privileged with a royal charter. Apart from the actual…
I agree strongly with this - there has been a slow but steady decline in the quality of BBC news content over the past decade or so. It's not even confined to clickbait, the articles are getting seriously dumbed down too - you'd think many of them were written for children! And it's not even confined to online - the news section on Radio 1 is an absolute joke these days - if the online content is dumbed down, then th…
This is a double-edged sword. I can admit up front that don't have a very flattering view of the most popular British commercial news outlets. But they're popular.
So, in a way, if BBC wishes to remain accessible among people who are used to... certain popular British news outlets, it shouldn't isolate itself in an ivory tower. If BBC's domestic target demographics have a poor reading level, that's likely more of a Britain problem than a BBC problem.
There's probably also an aspect of serving populations inside Britain who don't speak English as their first language. The BBC's mission statement[1] also mentions mirroring Britain to the world, which likely increases the need for accessible language.
This is a basic soft power strategy anyone seeking global relevance should pay attention to.