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14 points·zbentley··4 comments

> And if you do something illegal over Tor and you haven't been arrested, then it's only because there are bigger villains than you; you're not a high priority

Many people cast Tor in a negative light, as if it's some secret criminal underworld where the only .onions that exist are illegal and wrong.

Personally, my Tor usage is about 90% clearnet sites, and the other 10% is to explore onion-land just out of plain curiosity. So I visit some chans, read personal (hidden service) blogs (mostly political conspiracy rants) and read a lot of infosec stuff, and that's it.

I don't regularly get ambushed by horrible content. You have to go out of your way to find that stuff, so I am thankful for that.

What worthwhile infosec stuff is on tor?

Well being Tor, there's a lot of infosec stuff to browse. For some reason, on Tor (onion-land) people just divulge more, since it's the so called 'hidden internet', so people just presume the layperson won't find it.

I'm just going to repost my comment from last time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25182104

>Oh great, this guy again? He has a history of posting overhyped tor "0days". The comment threads from the last few times should tell you all you need to know.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929312

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24500214

Quickly skimming the article, it looks like it's more of the same. He spends the first half rehashing the previous "0days" that he discovered (ie. that TOR is blockable), before getting to the content implied be the title. The "0day" here is that snowflake is detectable.

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