On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk" target="_blank">dr@jones.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:26:35PM +0200, <a href="mailto:bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org" target="_blank">bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org</a> wrote:<br>
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:02:42PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:<br>
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:46:03PM +0200, <a href="mailto:bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org" target="_blank">bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org</a> wrote:<br>
>On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:25:56AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:<br>
>>Somewhat related to this: I recently switched from Google as search >>engine to DuckDuckGo.com, which is still a central service, but >>provides less hints for other services to track info about my >>online activities.<br>
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>And they have a hidden service :)<br>
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...which is?<br>
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<a href="http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion" target="_blank">http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion</a>, can be found easily, they announced it.<br>
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Could you please elaborate in *words* on what it is you are talking about?<br>
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I failed to resolve above (is it a TOR URL?), and anyway I find it generally annoying to need to jump through hoops instead of simply be given a clear brief explanation :-(<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, that is an URL within TOR.<br>
<br>As I understand it (and I speak as someone who hasn't yet played with TOR), you can provide a service to the TOR community where anonymity of both the users and the service providers is guaranteed. The address for such a service is a .onion URL like those above.<br>
<br>I'm not sure what the benefit is, of providing a TOR hidden service version of something which is freely and non-anonymously available on the public Internet, as I think TOR provides access to the open Internet as well. Maybe it makes things more efficient? Or maybe it's just good geek-PR for DuckDuckGo. :-)<br>
<br>There is also a tor2web service which provides access to TOR hidden (web) services from the public web: <a href="http://www.tor2web.com">www.tor2web.com</a>, so that URL can be viewed from the public Internet as: <a href="http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.tor2web.com/">http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.tor2web.com/</a><br>
<br>Here are some docs: <a href="http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en">http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en</a><br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br>Founder, CEO and janitor of the Beanstalks Project.<br>
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