I don’t understand the concern, domain names are cheap and easy to get, they can just keep using new ones. Why does it matter if they lose the ones they have?
Piratebay used to do the domain dance all the time back in the day (and maybe still do).
Is TOR not completely owned by the feds? I remember even back in the silk road days people were saying the FBI owns every endpoint. Is TOR still practical? I truly don’t know I’m asking for input.
In this scenario it wouldn’t matter because the idea is to use it as a way to access a website that would otherwise be accessed over clearnet but has become inaccessible. But if they made an onion site endpoints wouldn’t be used anyway afaik since the traffic doesn’t leave the network. Now that I’m thinking about it there might be some issues with practicality doing it this way if they have a big volume of traffic, but there are options for routing around censorship that don’t involve DNS.
I don’t understand this comment, can you elaborate? Why wouldn’t the endpoints be used? This is probably my ignorance but I thought all traffic was routed through the onion network and then eventually to the end device, but all that extra routing can’t help you if the Feds control the last stop before whatever server you’re trying to contact… are you saying that if a site is entirely hosted on TOR then no information makes it to an endpoint?
Yeah but even if you could get it down to like 50% why would anyone want to take that risk? Idk I might be misunderstanding something about how TOR works but it seems no more anonymous than the clearweb from what I’ve heard.
While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.
The pirate bay is still able to find domains so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t understand the concern, domain names are cheap and easy to get, they can just keep using new ones. Why does it matter if they lose the ones they have?
Piratebay used to do the domain dance all the time back in the day (and maybe still do).
It’s more about users being able to find them again. If they lose all domain names, it becomes difficult to figure out which are the new ones.
Fmhy.net usually has a working domain of AA
https://open-slum.org/ (not sure what’s up with it atm, use the 2nd one)
or
https://open-slum.pages.dev/
Just look up on wikipedia
Maybe this will prompt some people to learn to use Tor
Is TOR not completely owned by the feds? I remember even back in the silk road days people were saying the FBI owns every endpoint. Is TOR still practical? I truly don’t know I’m asking for input.
In this scenario it wouldn’t matter because the idea is to use it as a way to access a website that would otherwise be accessed over clearnet but has become inaccessible. But if they made an onion site endpoints wouldn’t be used anyway afaik since the traffic doesn’t leave the network. Now that I’m thinking about it there might be some issues with practicality doing it this way if they have a big volume of traffic, but there are options for routing around censorship that don’t involve DNS.
I don’t understand this comment, can you elaborate? Why wouldn’t the endpoints be used? This is probably my ignorance but I thought all traffic was routed through the onion network and then eventually to the end device, but all that extra routing can’t help you if the Feds control the last stop before whatever server you’re trying to contact… are you saying that if a site is entirely hosted on TOR then no information makes it to an endpoint?
If enough people set endpoints, then the feds will own a fewer proportion of the total. AKA: we have to be the change we want to see in the world.
Yeah but even if you could get it down to like 50% why would anyone want to take that risk? Idk I might be misunderstanding something about how TOR works but it seems no more anonymous than the clearweb from what I’ve heard.
Anna’s Archive when they find out piracy is illegal 🙀
Sounds fun 😈