Facebook Officially Adds Tor Functionality
Facebook says Tor users can access the network without the loss of cryptographic protections, but the move has plenty of critics.
Facebook isn’t exactly known for robust security protocols or its ability to offer privacy to its users. However, in what some are considering a bizarre and possibly pointless move, Facebook is now offering the ability to use its service through the Tor Network.
Facebook security engineer Alec Muffet writes in an official post:
Facebook’s onion address provides a way to access Facebook through Tor without losing the cryptographic protections provided by the Tor cloud. The idea is that the Facebook onion address connects you to Facebook’s Core WWW Infrastructure… It reflects one benefit of accessing Facebook this way: that it provides end-to-end communication, from your browser directly into a Facebook datacenter.
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