More Than 1 Million Accessing Facebook via Tor Anonymizing Software
More than a million people use Facebook over the Tor Internet anonymizing software since Facebook made the website directly available over the Tor network in 2014, wrote Alec Muffett, Facebook's software engineer for security infrastructure, in a Friday blog post.…
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Last June, about 525,000 people accessed Facebook over Tor over a "typical 30 day period" by using the Tor browser to access the site directly, the Facebook Onion site built specifically for Tor users or through the Orbot app on Android devices, he said. "This number has grown -- roughly linearly -- and this month, for the first time, we saw this '30 day' figure exceed 1 million people." People use Tor generally to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.