#Privacy

Deploying a Tor Hidden Service with DigitalOcean A quick primer on Tor hidden services The Tor protocol picks 3 onion routers at random, builds circuits to them, treating them as introduction (or contact) points; since this is a circuit, there is no direct connection, so no IP addresses are shared, just public keys. These public keys work toward “shaking hands” at a rendezvous point. If the handshake happens, the rendezvous point connects Alice’s and Bob’s circuits, and then they can communicate anonymously. [Read More]

Overview It would seem that people are becoming more conscious of behavior’s role in retaining, taking back, and even losing privacy. Privacy technology isn’t currently a solution to privacy issues, so it is becoming more important to consider how we interact with these technologies, and how we make decisions. We have a greater propensity to share when our friends share, when we trust the technology maintainers, and defaults surprisingly dictate the way we behave, so what happens when you opt-in, by default, to share your social network data with a host of third parties? [Read More]