onion address lets people connect to Facebook's Core Moreover, Facebook also decided to encrypt the connection between clients and its server with SSL, providing an SSL certificate for Facebook's onion address. "Facebook's onion address provides a way to access Facebook through Tor without losing the cryptographic protections provided by the Tor cloud," Muffett said, adding that the idea is that the. Facebook expects the service "to be of an evolutionary and slightly flaky nature." To make the user experience better for Tor users, the site has been made available with an "onion" address.Ī quick glance around Facebook on Tor showed no obvious differences with the regular Facebook site, though it was a bit slower, probably due to traffic routed through a couple of relays. The setup of Facebook's security infrastructure has sometimes led to unnecessary hurdles for people who connect to Facebook using Tor. In other contexts such behavior might suggest that a hacked account is being accessed through a 'botnet', but for Tor this is normal," he said. "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. However, the way Tor works sometimes poses a problem for Facebook and its users, said Muffett.
Facebook also allows access to the site via HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) and other technologies designed to give people more confidence that they are connected securely to the social network.
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