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Re:The Research Pirates of the Dark Web by duskwuff on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:59AM (#11074098)
Traffic to .onion URLs is terminated within the Tor network. It doesn't pass through exit nodes.

HTTPS is actually a bit redundant for .onion URLs, as the hostname is a representation of the host's public key.

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