On Sat, Feb 13, 2016, at 14:32, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > For apps that want to absolutely guarantee access via Tor, you can also > setup a .Onion hidden service. This would.not resolve if your request is > not being proxied.
Unless I'm totally missing something in the world of Tor, an .onion hidden service is something that would be done on the server side. A client-side developer cannot unilaterally create an .onion hidden service, and even if it were done, that would only work for that particular service. So, for a developer creating an app for their own server, a hidden service is certainly conceivable. A developer creating an app for a user's chosen server, or even just some third-party server, can't go that route (again, unless I'm missing something). And while we can change the client code to temporarily hit something else (e.g., check.torproject.org)... that's a bit like the old joke about looking for one's lost car keys under the streetlamp, rather than where the keys might have been lost, because the light's better there. :-) -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) https://commonsware.com | https://github.com/commonsguy https://commonsware.com/blog | https://twitter.com/commonsguy _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
