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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.
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.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
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.
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.
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
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.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.