Technically, it's easier to crunch "something with the word facebook and
otherwise consisting only of words, whether meaningful or not" than it
is to spoof a desired address.
That is, they could have crunched the above and resulted in a list like:
elffacebookfarts.onion
bottlefacebookerr.onion
facebookifred.onion
facebookcorewwwi.onion
And of course, the last one is the best fit.
Mind you, the entropy in onion addresses is a tad low, so it's been
suggested before I believe that spoofing them isn't impossible in the
long run..just hard.
On 31/10/14 14:58, rysiek wrote:
Hi all,
so, you've probably seen this:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/31/facebook-announced-it-is-now-providing-direct-access-to-its-service-over-the-tor-network/
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?
