The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet

guest · May 7, 2019

The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet
The CIA announced its own Tor "onion service," so that people around the world can browse the agency's website anonymously
May 7, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/cia-sets-up-shop-on-tor/

Over the years, several organizations have made so-called onion sites—a dedicated version of their website that they configure and host to be accessible through the Tor anonymity network.
The National Police of the Netherlands even has an onion service related to its dark-web criminal takedown operations. But the CIA is the first intelligence agency to make the leap.

"Our global mission demands that individuals can access us securely from anywhere," CIA director of public affairs Brittany Bramell told WIRED ahead of the launch in a statement. "Creating an onion site is just one of many ways we’re going where people are."

Everything from the CIA's main website is available on its onion site, including instructions for how to contact the CIA and a digital form for submitting tips.
The main reasons to actually access the CIA's site through Tor seem to be sending information to the agency with more robust anonymity protection or quietly applying for a job there.
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The CIA's site is a Version 3 onion service, meaning it has the improved cryptographic algorithms and stronger authentication the Tor Project launched at the end of 2017.
[...] you reach the CIA's onion site at:

ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion
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mirimir · May 7, 2019

So what? Do we think that this is the CIA's first onion site? Strange.

ComputerSaysNo · May 7, 2019

They have been using onion sites since they were invented. Probably dead drop forums that are used for a very short time then deleted for intelligence gathering purposes. They are probably also huge users of messaging apps that use onion services like ricochet, torchat and qtox.

guest · May 8, 2019

Nothing new there.

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