How Facebook came to have a Tor onion address.

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by mirimir, Jul 11, 2018.

  1. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    tl;dr - Working there, Alec Muffett convinced them to look at access via Tor. And it became obvious that Tor use was becoming substantial. Anyway, in his words:

    https://www.facebook.com/notes/alec...nion-site-ie-a-tor-hidden-/10153762090530962/
    https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/...nion-site-ie-a-tor-hidden-/10153762090530962/

    And as I've posted in another thread, using https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/, I created an account, and didn't need to supply a mobile number. Just an email address.

    Edit: And for context, https://www.facebook.com/notes/face...people-use-facebook-over-tor/865624066877648/
     
    Last edited: Jul 11, 2018
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