Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:18AM from the mixing-privacy-with-antiprivacy dept.

itwbennett writes: Assuming that people who use the anonymity network want to also use Facebook, the social network has made its site available on Tor, Facebook software engineer Alec Muffett said in a post on Friday. Facebook also decided to encrypt the connection between clients and its server with SSL, providing an SSL certificate for Facebook's onion address. This was done both for internal technical reasons and as a way for users to verify Facebook's ownership of the onion address. Since it is still an experiment, Facebook hopes to improve the service and said it would share lessons learned about scaling and deploying services via an onion address over time.

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They wanted to release this years ago... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-31 04:24 · Score: 5, Funny

... but it took all this time to calculate that .onion URL.
Re:Anonymity? by rogoshen1 · 2014-10-31 04:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Because people concerned enough about anonymity to use tor, are also avid products of social media -- of course. Did you forget to drink your kool-aid this morning?
Re:Is this an Onion story? by sinij · 2014-10-31 05:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, yes it is Onion story