Facebook now available by a TOR hidden service. Nobody understands why.

[yoloswag9000]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237
 

It’s important to us at Facebook to provide methods for people to use our site securely. People connect to Facebook in many different ways, which is why we have implemented HTTPS across our service, and Perfect Forward Secrecy, HSTS, and other technologies which help give people more confidence that they are connected securely to Facebook.


That doesn’t mean we can’t improve yet further.


Consider Tor: Tor challenges some assumptions of Facebook's security mechanisms - for example its design means that from the perspective of our systems a person who appears to be connecting from Australia at one moment may the next appear to be in Sweden or Canada. In other contexts such behaviour might suggest that a hacked account is being accessed through a “botnet”, but for Tor this is normal.


Considerations like these have not always been reflected in Facebook's security infrastructure, which has sometimes led to unnecessary hurdles for people who connect to Facebook using Tor. To make their experience more consistent with our goals of accessibility and security, we have begun an experiment which makes Facebook available directly over Tor network at the following URL:


https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/


[ NOTE: link will only work in Tor-enabled browsers ]

Now you can connect to Facebook as a a hidden service using TOR and then login with your credentials completely negating the privacy gained by TOR.

[SirRoderick]

That is so stupid it must be a joke

[Guest]

I suppose the point of it is making so that people in countries that suppress dissent organized via Facebook can connect to it without their government knowing.

Facebook did go back on their real name policy recently, didn't they?

 

Of course dissidents against an oppressive surveillance state making themselves dependent of Facebook makes for brain melting irony, but for those not put off by that, it serves a purpose.

[Just The Tips]

Halloween prank to make us wonder and make threads like this? maybe idk lel

[qwertywarrior]

rofl......

[cubercaleb]

Hahahahahaha, isn't that cute, Facebook wants people to think it cares about privacy.

[Darkman]

Lies, all lies!!!

[DigitalHermit]

[RuecanOnRails]

Even if it negates privacy and anonymity through login credentials, it's a big push towards a larger adoption of tor. The current internet is broken in terms of privacy and security, use of tor as an everyday tool is a big step in the right direction.