posted by
LaminatorX
on Friday October 31 2014, @11:25PM
from the social-networkaholics-anonymous dept.
from the social-networkaholics-anonymous dept.
Facebook just took the surprising step of adding a way for users of the free anonymizing software Tor to access the social network directly.
The address is: https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
Meanwhile, Soylent's Tor address seems to have been inaccessible for the last couple of weeks.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday October 31 2014, @11:37PM
UNWRAPPING THE ONION SINCE 2014.
They gonna track the shit out you, fingerprint your browser, and map you back to real location.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Saturday November 01 2014, @12:18AM
Since so many people walk around with the app reporting their real-time location to facebook, and they log in to see their friends having a much nicer Halloween than them (at least claiming to), all of which is logged and kept forever, what exactly is the point of being anonymous?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 01 2014, @01:24AM
> Since so many people walk around with the app reporting their real-time location to facebook
Not all facebook users do that.
This would be useful to:
(1) People who do not want to report their location, their IP address, their ISP to facebook but still want to interact with people on facebook
(2) People who live in countries where facebook is blocked and/or illegal to use
(3) Stupid people
Just because your imagination is limited to #3 doesn't mean #1 and #2 aren't important.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday November 01 2014, @01:41AM
2) People who live in countries where facebook is blocked and/or illegal to use
Maybe there is hope for humanity after all.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday November 01 2014, @02:22AM
4. .gov astroturfer types who don't want to get caught WRT their alter ego. For either good or evil.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday November 02 2014, @02:47AM
1 - Derivable from the incredible aggregation of information peppering a quarter-million breadcrumbs, left across the "Like-Button" littered Interspace.
2 - See 1.
Facebook is only safe for these cases without logging in, cookies disabled, flash persistent objects cleared, no scripting enabled and a user-agent / fingerprint spoofing proxy/plugin.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday November 01 2014, @01:13AM
So anonymous login to your real name account? Facebook still has real name policy don't they? Unless you are one of them transgender dragqueens that was in an uproar about what is actually "real", think that was just last month. I'm sure you can have a fake facebook account but that sort of defeats the purpose since you use Facebook to connect with friends doesn't it? So unless you use TOR to login to your fake facebook stalker account what would be the point? You don't mind Facebook knowing it's you, you just don't want them to know where you are? Cause that would be stepping over some line?
(Score: 1) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday November 01 2014, @03:00AM
don't do Facebook. The two are incompatible. And those who do TOR usually know 3/4th of the security afforded by TOR is down to good user practice rather than TOR itself, and FB requires you to throw good practice out the window.
I don't know what Zuckerberg is after with this one, but this sure looks like some sort of deanonymizing effort. Nothing good ever comes out of this guy.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 01 2014, @03:21AM
> Those who do TOR don't do Facebook.
Don't be ridiculous. Tor is for everyone. Just because some uses aren't maximum security doesn't make them invalid uses of Tor. At the very least the more straight-up legit traffic over Tor, the better off all Tor users are because the more traffic there is the harder it is for TLAs to do traffic analysis.
Also starting your post in the subject line is really narcissistic. Soylent is for communicating not just typing to see yourself type.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by gman003 on Saturday November 01 2014, @05:14AM
He's after a publicity win.
Very few people like the NSA spying. Most dislike it, but are too apathetic to do anything about it (I suppose I'm included). If Facebook is seen as doing "something" to combat it, it doesn't matter much if it actually works or not, or if anyone will use it. They get the PR points for doing something. Remember, Facebook users think they can catch Joseph Kony if they click "like" enough times - they're masters of doing as little as possible, as visibly as possible.
(Score: 1) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday November 01 2014, @03:07AM
http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion/ [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion]
Sadly enough, when it went dead, I went to the SN IRC channel to enquire about it and nobody there even knew it existed.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Saturday November 01 2014, @04:03AM
I second that motion. Please bring back the .onion site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 01 2014, @01:24PM
Still waiting on ello.
I hope there is a day where Facebook is a ghost town like tagged or Friendster. The problem I see is of their millions of users a good majority are middle aged morons who would be lost if they even changed the UI.
As far as their onion, I am sure they will be able to collect enough data to be usable based upon location, habits, and who you interact with to build a solid profile.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday November 04 2014, @02:47PM
Ello has already promised to sell your data to third parties. You're better off with Diaspora or GNUSocial.
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Saturday November 01 2014, @03:43PM
Is it possible that Facebook is acting as a node for some TLA? They have certainly been accused of being exceptionally friendly to the government surveillance efforts.
I admit that I don't understand how TOR works, can somebody explain exactly how it works?
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