[tor-talk] Firefox add-on tells when website on clearnet has .onion

Not Friendly notfriendly at riseup.net
Fri Jun 10 20:16:23 UTC 2016


On 2016-06-10 15:56, Lucas Teixeira wrote:
> The table pointing associating clearnet domains with .onion addresses 
> is
> maintained on a .csv on a git repo. Is this the first time someone does
> this kind of thing? Could this grow into a community maintained 
> database?
> 
> https://github.com/Someguy123/HiddenEverywhere
> 
> --------
> 
> 
> 
> <https://github.com/Someguy123/HiddenEverywhere#hiddeneverywhere>HiddenEverywhere
> 
> A Firefox add-on to help TOR users find hidden services for ClearNet
> sites they use every day.
> 
> Often, I tell people of Facebook's hidden service
> <http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/facebook-offers-hidden-service-to-tor-users/>
> only to hear they didn't know. It's been around since 2014, offering 
> TOR
> users additional security, compared to the Clearnet.
> 
> The most recent encounter with someone who actively used TOR for their
> daily activities had me think, "what if Firefox could tell you when a
> site you're using has a hidden service, even if you're stuck behind a
> Cloudflare Captcha?".
> 
> And thus, this extension was born. When you visit a site such as
> LiteVault.net <https://www.litevault.net> or Facebook.com, the 
> extension
> will inform you that you should be using the hidden service, with a
> direct link to it.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>   <https://github.com/Someguy123/HiddenEverywhere#new-domains>New 
> Domains
> 
> To add a new domain, simply fork the repo, add it to |data/urls.txt| at
> the bottom of the list, and submit a pull request. It will be added 
> ASAP.
> 
> The format is: TITLE URL-PATTERN ONION-URL
> 
> We only support the EXACT and WILDCARD matches in the URL Pattern
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/util_match-pattern>
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Lucas Teixeira
> https://codingrights.org
> https://twitter.com/eletrorganico
Quick question on the Facebook Onion Service. You said that some people 
say they didn't know about the onion servie for Facebook? Does Facebook 
show a notice (or couldn't they auto redirect) about the Onion Service 
whenever you login through Tor? That would definally imporve awareness. 
Also the plugin could become community updated over time. Maybe at some 
point the Tor Project could even fork the plugin (if open source) and 
build similar support into Tor Browser itself.

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