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Facebook's Android App Gains Privacy-Enhancing Tor Support (facebook.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Back towards the end of 2014, Facebook unveiled a new .onion address that allowed Tor users to visit the social network securely. Following on from this, the company is now giving Android users the ability to browse the site using Tor and the Facebook app. Security, privacy and anonymity may be words readily associated with Tor, but few people would use them in the same sentence as Facebook. The social network says that there is increased demand for secure connections to Facebook from Tor-enabled browsers, hence spreading to the largest mobile platform. The news will make some mobile users happy, but there are currently no plans to migrate the feature from Android to iOS.
Can't wait till I can log into Silk Road with my facebook account.
The first rule of TOR is that you don't sign in to Facebook or any other similar thing, else you link your account to your identity. This especially matters for Facebook because they have those little scripts all over the web to track what websites you visit, all those sign in/comment with Facebook widgits will know who you are.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
If you enable Tor within the Facebook app, Facebook gets:
o the entry point to Tor that you are using
o the exit node from tor that you come out of
o your signed-in identity, as usual
Adding Tor to the Facebook app gains you the following:
o the operator of your local network won't know that you are visiting Facebook (unless your DNS is misconfigured)
If enough users enable Tor, Facebook will be able to map Tor circuits in real time, and Tor will do nothing to protect you from government agencies asking Facebook "was this user using Tor? What entry point did they use?"