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Wired and others report that ProPublica has become the first "major" news outlet to launch a version of the site using Tor:
On Wednesday, ProPublica became the first known major media outlet to launch a version of its site that runs as a "hidden service" on the Tor network, the anonymity system that powers the thousands of untraceable websites that are sometimes known as the darknet or dark web. The move, ProPublica says, is designed to offer the best possible privacy protections for its visitors seeking to read the site's news with their anonymity fully intact. Unlike mere SSL encryption, which hides the content of the site a web visitor is accessing, the Tor hidden service would ensure that even the fact that the reader visited ProPublica's website would be hidden from an eavesdropper or Internet service provider.
"Everyone should have the ability to decide what types of metadata they leave behind," says Mike Tigas, ProPublica's developer who worked on the Tor hidden service. "We don't want anyone to know that you came to us or what you read."
ProPublica accepts news tips using a SecureDrop hidden service. The recent move to include a Tor hidden site was motivated by concerns that Chinese readers could be put at risk by reading reports about the country's Web censorship.
The site can be reached at: propub3r6espa33w.onion
ProPublica often collaborates with The New York Times, NPR, PBS, The Intercept and others to publish stories. Here are a few ProPublica stories that have made it to our front page:
Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users
Fines Remain Rare as Health Data Breaches Multiply
NSA Monitors Americans' International Internet Traffic to Hunt Hackers for FBI
Fairview: AT&T's Collaborative Relationship with NSA Revealed
Psychology Practice Revealed Patients' Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuits
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:18PM
Well, now it's not so hidden anymore, is it?!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:30PM
Go to this website: https://www.torproject.org/ [torproject.org]
Read up: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en [torproject.org]
Download: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en [torproject.org]
Install.
Test: http://duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion/ [duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion]
Avoid paying money and losing your anonymity for a unique, worldwide reachable domain: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en [torproject.org]
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 09 2016, @10:06PM
Better yet, just stay away from ProPublica.
Its chock full of trackers, ads, and other things that Ublock tosses out.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:44PM
Can't a for enabled browser visit a normal web page? idgi
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:47PM
For enabled browser, I mean
Edit post is a needed feature.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:57PM
Edit for registered users, with comment history available to anyone. No allowing people to change history without a record!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday January 09 2016, @08:47PM
Edit for registered users,
Guy says that posting AC.
Wow.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Sunday January 10 2016, @04:50AM
Also, This was incorrect, registered users still don't have ability to edit posts. Full comment histories however, are a feature.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday January 10 2016, @05:39AM
I read the AC's post as a request/demand, not a statement. I just thought it odd he wouldn't log in but was demanding all these features.
I might have misread the thread.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Monday January 11 2016, @05:07PM
I read the AC's post as a request/demand, not a statement.
I hadn't even considered that = )
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:51PM
Auto correct, amirite
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @08:51PM
Nah just the service that cannot be named (on the open web).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @07:32PM
propub3r6espa33w.onion
I wonder how long it took to find something that hashed to that.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by kadal on Saturday January 09 2016, @08:01PM
Facebook did something similar
(Score: 1) by eliphas_levy on Sunday January 10 2016, @01:13PM
I wonder how long it took to find something that hashed to that.
Not more than 30 minutes, according to the performance table of Shallot [github.com]. Don't know if this is is still valid/is what they used, tho.
This is a sigh.
(Score: 1) by eliphas_levy on Sunday January 10 2016, @01:18PM
Reply to self:
There is a key generator that is GPU-based too, that would generate a domain with preselected 8-character in 1h40...
Scallion [github.com]
This is a sigh.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 09 2016, @08:41PM
Chinese readers could be put at risk by USING TOR.
Fify.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.