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KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address

Posted by msmash on from the beyond-censorship dept.

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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  1. so easy to remember by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    lsuzvpko6w6hzpnn.onion

    1. Re:so easy to remember by danbob999 · · Score: 1

      an IPv4 address would be easier to remember...

    2. Re:so easy to remember by mrchaotica · · Score: 1

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

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      "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

    3. Re:so easy to remember by ledow · · Score: 1

      You still type in web addresses?

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

    4. Re:so easy to remember by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      an IPv4 address would be easier to remember...

      and would defeat the purpose of Tor.

    5. Re:so easy to remember by allo · · Score: 1

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

  2. "Dark web" gets popular by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    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.

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    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    1. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2

      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.

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      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    2. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

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

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    3. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by Sir+Holo · · Score: 1

      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.

    4. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

    5. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by JesseMcDonald · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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      "The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
    6. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      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.

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    7. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by KiloByte · · Score: 2

      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.

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      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
    8. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      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.

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    9. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      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.

    10. Re:"Dark web" gets popular by allo · · Score: 1

      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)

  3. Re: Now at 1/1000th the speed by lgw · · Score: 1

    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.

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    Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  4. Re:What stops TLA from running a hidden service? by allo · · Score: 1

    why do you care? you're anonymous.