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from the in-tor-no-one-can-see-you-download dept.
"Richard Hartmann, Peter Palfrader, and Jonathan McDowell have set up the first official onion service mirrors of the Debian operating system's software package infrastructure. This means that it is now possible to update your Debian system without the update information or downloaded packages leaving the Tor network at all, preventing a network adversary from discovering information about your system. A follow-up post by Richard includes guidance on using apt-transport-tor with the new mirrors.
These services are only the first in what should hopefully become a fully Tor-enabled system mirroring "the complete package lifecycle, package information, and the website". "This service is not redundant, it uses a key which is stored on the local drive, the .onion will change, and things are expected to break", wrote Richard, but if you are interested in trying out the new infrastructure, see the write-ups for further information."
This was orignially found at Blog.TorProject.org
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @02:40AM
Earlier today (8-10 hours ago) I was having tons of time getting page views from SN, as if it was DDos'd or something. I couldn't get past the front page (no error page, browser just hung; FFox on Windows).
Seems fine now tho.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @02:49AM
Obviously some fuckhead tried to unplug SoylentNews from the Internet and put it exclusively on Tor instead to make it more edgy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @05:55AM
I was getting that. Not hangs, but pages served were empty without any delay. View source showed no text at all.
Reload a couple of times and the page would finally make it through.
So I switched to a different VPN exit-node on the other side of the country and it cleared up immediately.