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Custom .onion address

If you have used TOR you are all to familiar with lack of human memorable onion addresses. Recently Facebook has arrived on TOR officially with a hidden service address of fcebookcorewwwi.onion. So I started thinking; and thoughts went to into actions to create my own custom hidden service address. Using a program by the name […]

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Facebook, and TOR hidden services

All I can say is … “Its about time” While TOR does provide you with the ability to be anonymous that isn’t the full extent of its use. There’s no reason to let your ISP know when or whether you’re visiting Facebook.  Same goes for Facebook’s upstream ISP, or some any other agency on the […]

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Configuring & Hosting Hidden Services

Here are some simple steps to get you going with getting services you want to host under the Tor network hidden service. While they don’t seem simple up front they are. These notes are based on my own testing and using my headless tor proxy server setup. Requirements Tor installed Tor running Now my steps […]

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.onion sites

.onion is a pseudo-top-level domain host suffix (similar in concept to such endings as .bitnet and .uucp used in earlier times) designating an anonymous hidden service reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the Internet DNS root, but with the appropriate proxy software […]