In the increasingly visible battle over privacy on the internet, a dark web tool used to encrypt and make individual connections on the internet less traceable called “Tor” has just reached 1 million users on Facebook.
Alec Muffett, a software engineer for Security Infrastructure at Facebook, said the service reached this milestone after making several improvements in the past two years since opening up to make Tor connections more streamlined on the social network.
In 2014, Muffett and his team made Facebook accessible through the Tor network via the URL “https://facebookcorewwwi.onion.” Since then, it’s opened the platform up to mobile, standardized the “.onion,” domain, and implemented Tor connectivity for the Android mobile app through Orbot connections.
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Alec Muffett, a software engineer for Security Infrastructure at Facebook, said the service reached this milestone after making several improvements in the past two years since opening up to make Tor connections more streamlined on the social network.
In 2014, Muffett and his team made Facebook accessible through the Tor network via the URL “https://facebookcorewwwi.onion.” Since then, it’s opened the platform up to mobile, standardized the “.onion,” domain, and implemented Tor connectivity for the Android mobile app through Orbot connections.
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