On: Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service

[hundchenkatze]

So that you can access Facebook without leaving tor through an exit node.

[dajohnson89 → hundchenkatze]

I guess I don't see the point of using Tor with Facebook. So much of your identity is already tracked. It's like trying to sneak up on somebody while wearing those squeaky clown shoes.

[hbosch → dajohnson89]

The idea is not to hide from Facebook, the idea is to not unhide for Facebook.

[def8cefe → dajohnson89]

To avoid state censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Facebook

[kakarot → def8cefe]

And to enable state surveillance.

When you have a very small subset of users who will go through the trouble of trying out Facebook's onion address, it is much easier to be successful with surveillance tools on that small sample.

[def8cefe → kakarot]

Not for the Egyptian government.

[kakarot → def8cefe]

No, mainly for Five Eyes and friends

[marcosdumay → kakarot]

That's the point. It makes you more vulnerable for some threats, less vulnerable for others.