BBC has launched dark web tor mirror site

[Furiku]

British Broadcasting Corporation more commonly known to us as BBC has set up a tor website to provide access to the news in places where it might be otherwise limited.

 

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Instead of visiting bbc.co.uk/news or bbc.com/news, users of the Tor browser can visit the new bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion web address. 

 

It is interesting to see more mainstream service providers and even news outlets take up a stand on equal access to information like this - this will also serve to help with bringing up the reputation of onion TOR network from just that evil place where you can buy drugs.

 

 

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981

[Levent]

if people keep calling tor network "dark web" that shitty saying of "where you buy drugs" will never change. The reason behind BBC launching their tor site was so that people in countries with heavily censored internet can read news. Please people stop sensationalizing shit.

[samcool55]

So hang on, the same gov that said "hey you want ya porn, you need to verify your age" is now all "oh yea let them host a tor website with our news, nothing to see here".

 

I mean this is a good thing, I like this, but out of all the companies out there the BBC was one of the last one I expected this from.

 

But then again we have brexit so logic is clearly not a strong point of them.

[imreloadin]

1 hour ago, Levent said:

"where you buy drugs"

Woah bruh the BBC is selling drugs now?!?!

[Levent]

Just now, imreloadin said:

Woah bruh the BBC is selling drugs now?!?!

Thats exactly what people without any knowledge of tor and computer networks will think lmao.

[CTR640]

4 minutes ago, Levent said:

Thats exactly what people without any knowledge of tor and computer networks will think lmao.

JusT AnsER tEh d@mN qEuSTiOn, BbC iS sELlinG dRuGS n0W????

[porina]

9 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

So hang on, the same gov that said "hey you want ya porn, you need to verify your age" is now all "oh yea let them host a tor website with our news, nothing to see here".

Gov has no say in this. BBC are their own entity. 

 

The gov pron blocker thing, I think I recently saw this has been scaled back. Probably when someone competent pointed out to them it wasn't going to work.

 

9 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

I mean this is a good thing, I like this, but out of all the companies out there the BBC was one of the last one I expected this from.

Unlike "regular" businesses, they have a captive income so they can afford to take different risks in branching out. This is about the only good thing I have to say about the BBC.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

Woah bruh the BBC is selling drugs now?!?!

How else do you expect them to reintroduce free TV licences for the over 75s /s

[williamcll]

Weren't TOR proven ineffective years ago?

[brwainer]

22 minutes ago, williamcll said:

Weren't TOR proven ineffective years ago?

If an entity is able to monitor the exit node traffic (and TOR was built by the US Navy, so you can assume that the US at least is able to monitor a decent number of them) then there are many tricks that can be employed to de-anonymize the traffic. This means that TOR, on its own, cannot be fully relied upon to maintain anonymity. However, every person or group that has been caught using TOR for illegal means, was not found and shut down because the TOR traffic was figured out - in every case the person(s) they catch made some mistake. Examples are not using TOR just one time to check email or log into an IM client, using a non-TOR server to host the images and CSS for a website (I believe this is how the original Silk Road was caught), and other things that fall more into the realm of “good old fashioned investigative work”.

[justpoet]

44 minutes ago, brwainer said:

If an entity is able to monitor the exit node traffic (and TOR was built by the US Navy, so you can assume that the US at least is able to monitor a decent number of them) then there are many tricks that can be employed to de-anonymize the traffic. This means that TOR, on its own, cannot be fully relied upon to maintain anonymity. However, every person or group that has been caught using TOR for illegal means, was not found and shut down because the TOR traffic was figured out - in every case the person(s) they catch made some mistake. Examples are not using TOR just one time to check email or log into an IM client, using a non-TOR server to host the images and CSS for a website (I believe this is how the original Silk Road was caught), and other things that fall more into the realm of “good old fashioned investigative work”.

If TOR becomes widespread, the exit node monitoring tricks start to go away as more traffic and more nodes all make it more difficult.  If the BBC helps make it more widespread, I'm all for that!

[Beskamir]

Isn't this technically the deep web?

[mr moose]

On 10/24/2019 at 11:24 PM, Levent said:

if people keep calling tor network "dark web" that shitty saying of "where you buy drugs" will never change. The reason behind BBC launching their tor site was so that people in countries with heavily censored internet can read news. Please people stop sensationalizing shit.

 

When a pub gets a name because lots of shoddy deals get done there, then it doesn't matter that the pub itself is legit and has honest patrons, it has a PR issue from the shit that happens within it's doors. There is literally nothing you or I nor anyone else can do about that.  Torrents get used to pirate shit = torrents get a bad name, tor gets used to find the darkweb and order someone killed = tor gets a bad name,  this is the reason many companies simply do not provide services to groups or entities that engage in anything that causes bad PR, (things like cloudflare and 8chan,  that recent incident where that esports guy was kicked from the platform because of shit he said about hong kong and china etc).  It's just the nature of humanity.