KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address

An anonymous reader writes: KickassTorrents has now added a dark web address to make it easier for users to bypass blockades installed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It has announced a new .onion domain through which KickassTorrents users can access their favourite sites on a Tor (The Onion Router) network. "Good news for those who have difficulties accessing KAT due to the site block in their country, now you can always access KAT via this address lsuzvpko6w6hzpnn.onion on a Tor network," announced a member of the KickassTorrents team.

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so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

lsuzvpko6w6hzpnn.onion

Re:so easy to remember

[danbob999]

an IPv4 address would be easier to remember...

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

And if their servers get moved...

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

You can access KAT.CR on Onion via 127.0.0.1!

Re:so easy to remember

[mrchaotica]

Yeah, they should have used one of the programs discussed here to generate a more readable address.

Re:so easy to remember

[ledow]

You still type in web addresses?

Welcome to the 90's which gave you bookmarks/favourites.

Re:so easy to remember

[thegarbz]

an IPv4 address would be easier to remember...

and would defeat the purpose of Tor.

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

if it can be called "lsuzvpko6w6hzpnn" I don't see any reason it can't be kickasstorrents.onion or 123.432.345.654 or any other alphanumeric sequence

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, you're a retard, that's to be expected.

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

Aside from the nigh impossible memorization issue, a bigger one is the direct link of 'domain name' and crypto keys, one you don't have like that on clear-web with TLS. There you can exchange you SSL-Leys but keep the domain humming along. With TOR, you need to communicate an entire new address, quite probably leading to keys being kept for as long as possible, which, from a security viewpoint, may not be all that desirable.

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

> You still type in web addresses?

Of course not!! As digital native I type all my URL's into Google! ;-)

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously you have zero clue about how TOR works, or given the rest of your statement, the internet in general works.

Re:so easy to remember

[Anonymous Coward]

There are programs (scallion, shallot, and I'm sure others) that can generate "vanity" addresses for onions, and with modern processing power it won't even take much time. The first few characters, over half actually, of an onion address can be made into something easy to read. These are pretty easy to spoof, so just because something had kat or kickass in the name doesn't mean shit if you don't verify it's legit.

If your understanding of how tor (and the internet) functions is really this lacking, please don't go anywhere near it. The dark web is no place for people running Edge on their Windows 10 home system and using bing to flail around the net. It's amazing enough you found slashdot.

Re:so easy to remember

[allo]

Weakening the security by choosing a key from a much more limited set of possible keys.

hahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

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"Dark web" gets popular

[fustakrakich]

It's not so "dark" anymore, is it? Besides, Tor still doesn't blend. It will be trivial to shut it down also if/when usage passes a certain tipping point and becomes a significant portion of internet traffic. What follows will be interesting.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[GameboyRMH]

There are plenty of other darknets out there, some are better than Tor for certain applications (for example, I2P doesn't get choked up by torrents) and are harder to block. Tor is just the most popular and well-established.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[fustakrakich]

Still, nothing is invisible to your service provider. They still have control of what will pass over the network.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Sir Holo]

Still, nothing is invisible to your service provider. They still have control of what will pass over the network.

True, but the FCC has declared them to be "utility" companies, just like water and sewage service. That adds a huge regulatory umbrella over them.

It is probably why Verizon and AT&T are selling off all of their fiber (physical connections), at least in three cities so far. They're betting on wireless service to the home, which could get them out from under that umbrella.

Whatever the reason, Frontier(TM), who took over my local FiOS, actually care about their customers. They have always been a utility – usually wire and phone – but that experience gives them a real edge. They know how to comply with "utility" regs.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

you are not supossed to be using tor to download torrents, the whole content, the idea is to access the site in tor in case some faggot blocks it, grab the tiny .torrent file, and that will never make tor choke because its so tiny, and then run it from your regular internet without tor enabled.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[JesseMcDonald]

Still, nothing is invisible to your service provider.

Tor traffic isn't "invisible" to your ISP, but it is opaque. The ISP can see that you're running a Tor node, and estimate roughly how much data is being transferred, but not who you're communicating with or what you're saying. The content being transferred over Tor is effectively invisible.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[fustakrakich]

The ISP can see that you're running a Tor node...

Exactly, and they can drop the packets, and anything else they decide to block.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[KiloByte]

Traffic between you and the Tor node can be trivially disguised as a https or ssh stream. For an attacker with a limited view of the network (ie, an ISP but not the government), there's no way to tell https-in-tor-in-https from just regular https, and plenty other usage patterns are indistinguishable as well.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[fustakrakich]

I'm sorry, but they can redirect the signal without a care in the world about the content. And the government can conveniently place their equipment at the ISP, or set up phony ISPs. As long we are dependent on their service we are at their mercy. Ad hoc networking is our only hope. Everything else is too easy to sabotage and is just too brittle.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

Tor doesn't get "choked up" by torrents, neither does Phantom.
You just don't know how to use them.
Let alone privately without exiting to the internet.
There are huge number of users in all three.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

WROOOOONG!
The WHOLE POINT is to give back the bandwidth you use (modulo 7 hops) to the network by running a non-exit relay.
Then you can seed and share 24x7x365 with complete and utter impunity, freedom and happiness...
ENTIRELY WITHIN the Tor network. NO exits. NO spies. NO VPNs needed.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

you are not supossed to be using tor to download torrents, the whole content, the idea is to access the site in tor in case some faggot blocks it, grab the tiny .torrent file, and that will never make tor choke because its so tiny, and then run it from your regular internet without tor enabled.

That would be stupid

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

As long as snark is the default torrent client, i2p will not be a viable option for torrenting. Sure you can grab the new GoT episode in HD when someone gets around to uploading it, but you'll be waiting until Thursday for your DL to finish because of the blazing 5KB swarm speed. Snark is awful.

This can be fixed ... any torrent client can be adapted to i2p in theory ... but none of the devs have any interest in taking it on.

There's also Freenet. A lot of TV shows, music, and movies are shared on fms boards. It has its own speed issues though, and is resource intensive in terms of RAM, CPU, and bandwidth.

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[allo]

That's a misunderstanding. Downloading torrents is fine and even a good purpose.

Torrenting via tor once you have the torrent may be a problem (but capacity is growing and the exits are the bottleneck)

Re:"Dark web" gets popular

[Anonymous Coward]

That's stupid. Most of you live in democratic government. All you have to do is vote. You can''t win in the long run because you REQUIRE corporate infrastructure. Pirating can and will be regulated, especially if it keeps picking public fights. It would be trivial to wage a serious effort against torrenting at the ISP and government levels.

The only way to preserve that type of freedom is to vote, not to bury your head in the sand and pretend some backward networking model is the future, especially when the technology to make it happen is nowhere near capable of doing the job.. at least nothing in mass production at the prices that we'd need to even dream of making it happen.

No.. we have to organize and vote and then vote and organize and then repeat for the rest of our lives. That is the ONLY realistic way. Vote every 2 years or more or you're a loser who doesn't get to complain about anything other than his mom's meatloaf.

Now at 1/1000th the speed

[Anonymous Coward]

Now you can download all of your torrents at 1/1000th the speed of you internet connection via Tor!

Re: Now at 1/1000th the speed

[Anonymous Coward]

You do realise access to kat is via tor, you're torrents aren't right?

Re:Now at 1/1000th the speed

[Anonymous Coward]

You are confusing browsing a BitTorrent search engine and downloading with a BitTorrent client.

Re: Now at 1/1000th the speed

[lgw]

You do realise access to kat is via tor, you're torrents aren't right?

This is pretty important for those hoping to hide from the MPAA. You will be torrenting in the open, not over TOR. This is just a way to reliably find KAT despite ISPs trying BS with DNS and other blocking.

Re: Now at 1/1000th the speed

[Anonymous Coward]

You should be shuffling the data privately over Tor and Phantom as well in one big happy IPv6 cloud that never even touches clearnet.

Re: Now at 1/1000th the speed

[Anonymous Coward]

NOPE!
Actually, the speed over Tor, I2P and Phantom is just fine.
I can download an entire lossless DVD-9 vob rip (or bluray-to-dvd9 recode) in under a day.
Plus a FLAC lossless cd rip as well.
That's more movies and music than I have time to see and hear in a day or more.
As always, just buy a cheap 8TB drive, queue up whatever, come back and watch it
the next day or later that night. No big deal.
I love these overlay networks... ZERO worries about pigs, and they work just fine for me.

really?

[Anonymous Coward]

is torrent still a thing? how gauche.

Re:really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mmm hmm. Myah, and so are MP3's and JPG's.

douche

What stops TLA from running a hidden service?

[Anonymous Coward]

So news of site X getting an .onion site makes the news.

Just as with the Facebook hidden service, how can we really know who runs these at all?

Re:What stops TLA from running a hidden service?

[allo]

why do you care? you're anonymous.

Great.

[Anonymous Coward]

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