{"id":3820,"date":"2014-11-03T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2014-11-03T22:52:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:52:26","slug":"facebook-allows-tor-access-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2014\/11\/facebook-allows-tor-access-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Allows Tor Access To Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook started out blocking users of the Tor network in 2013, but have recently had a change of mind and now Facebook allows Tor access to the site even providing a special .onion address for users of the network to directly connect to Facebook infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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It’s an interesting decision as many of the Facebook<\/a> ‘security controls’ will fail due to a Tor users appearing to come from many different geographical locations during one browsing session.<\/p>\n Facebook has changed its stance on Tor traffic and will now provide users with a way to connect to its free content ad network using the anonymizing service.<\/p>\n The company said that it will now offer a special URL \u2013 https:\/\/facebookcorewwwi.onion \u2013 that will allow users running Tor-enabled browsers to access the service.<\/p>\n Facebook had previously blocked Tor access, citing security concerns and the possibility that Tor could be used to conduct attacks on its servers.<\/p>\n The social network said back in 2013 that it would work with Tor on a possible solution. Now, more than a year later, it seems one is at hand. Even as it launched of the Tor access address, however, Facebook acknowledged that the Tor network poses some risks.<\/p>\n “Tor challenges some assumptions of Facebook’s security mechanisms \u2013 for example its design means that from the perspective of our systems a person who appears to be connecting from Australia at one moment may the next appear to be in Sweden or Canada,” Facebook senior engineer Alec Muffett said in announcing the move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n