https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

31 Oct 2014

      Hi all,

so, you've probably seen this:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/31/facebook-announced-it-is-now-providing-dir...

Apart from being torn about the move (good on Facebook to support TOR, but I 
don't really feel like praising Facebook for anything I guess), there are two 
WTFs here:
https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

1. HTTPS to TOR Hidden Service? Why?
/that's the smaller one/

2. How did they get to control 15 characters (I assume the "i" was random) in 
the .onion address? That's a *LOT* of number crunching. If they are able to do 
this, it means they are able (or are very close to) bascially spoof *any* 
.onion address.

Am I missing something?

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Pozdr
rysiek