Facebook adds support for Tor, now enjoy secure social networking

Facebook just added support to Tor, the free anonymizing software to access the site without any errors.

Tor was launched in 2002 and is an open source project that provides anonymity to users on the internet. Sensitive data like your IP address and physical location, their service providers, device's make model etc. won't be shared with the server.

While Tor users could previously access Facebook before, but it would usually be filled with error in text fonts, images or for some the site wouldn't even open, because Facebook's security features treated Tor as a 'botnet' — a collection of computers designed to attack sites.

Now Tor users can visit this link below
https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
to get a secure connection to Facebook's servers with end-to-end encryption. Now as Facebook seems more reliable, more users around the globe can communicate each other with full privacy and security.

Source : TheVerge

Russia has offered $110,000 to identify users on the anonymous 'Tor' network

Russia's Interior Ministry has put out a bounty of 3.9 roubles (around $110,000) to groups who can crack the US Navy-designed privacy network.

After the country's vicious crackdown on dissenting voices back in 2012, protestors who hadn't escaped or been jailed began using anonymous internet communication as their first line of defense against the Kremlin. If you're considering taking part in the challenge and wish to earn, take a note that the bounty is only open to organizations that already have security clearance to work for the Russian government.

Last week, Vladimir Putin signed a law that required internet companies to store user information in Russia where it can be freely accessed by intelligence services and in May he introduced a “blogger’s law” requiring any site with more than 3,000 daily visitors to register with the government.
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Russia is not the only country that would like to crack Tor though, with documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggesting that British spy agency GCHQ and the American NSA have made multiple attempts to unmask its users.

Although Tor is often used by journalists and human rights activists (Edward Snowden himself uses Tor to communicate from asylum in Russia) criminals also take advantage of the system’s anonymity, using Tor to sell drugs and images of child abuse online!

This is how Tor works and it's pretty tough to crack its network

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