Thursday, January 21, 2016

Facebook's Built-in Tor Support.


           Are you concerned about your privacy in cyber space ? Are you feeling insecure thinking that someone is spying on you ? Then you should give a try to TOR (The Onion Routing) network. Recently Facebook adds in-built support to TOR.

           #TOR network has been many used by millions to hide their identity while surfing in cyber space and the way TOR works provides this anonymity and many of you might not be knowing that there is an .onion domain exists.

           .onion domain is another TLD (Top Level Domain) like .com. that we are using normally and the way .onion domain working provides services as a hidden service by hiding both the sender and the server identity.

            Few months back Facebook started a new .onion domain site inorder to provide ultimate anonymity to their user. Now, Facebook is adding TOR support to its Android App users.

           In order to use it you should have a #Orbot Proxy (To establish TOR network with proper settings) then you can open your Facebook app in Android device and select "Use TOR via Orbot" in the app setting menu.

           After the connection has been successfully established others including your ISP (Internet Service Provider) can not look into what data your are looking or requesting to the server.

           You can download the official Orbot proxy from here. The full functinality is still in testing phase and will be released soon by Facebook. 

Official Facebook .onion domain site link : https://facebookcorewwwi.onion   (Don't try Firefox or Chrome browser. It will work only in Tor browser).

P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.

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