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Re:The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service by giancarlostoro on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:22PM (#15571420)
Would it make any sense to use something like tor.nytimes.com to redirect to their hidden service on the other hand? To allow people to be sure they're hitting the correct endpoint on Tor. If you're on TOR you typically have access to the rest of the internet, at least depending on setup.
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Re:The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service by ne0n on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:52PM (#15571656)
Only if you're fine broadcasting in plaintext what tor site you're going to. The DNS lookup defeats the privacy of using an onion address.
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Re:The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service by ryacko on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:13PM (#15572276)
Exit nodes could also manipulate DNS.
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