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Why are onion services not widely used? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It amazes me that onion sites aren't everywhere. They are easy to spin up, you don't have to pay anything and can run it from your own home. No need to purchase a domain, worry about expiration, have an open port. Built-in DoS protection. Anonymity and authentication by default. No need to configure HTTPS. Sure, uptime is on you and there is some latency/bandwidth limits to be considered, but once you are over that, onions are a solution to many problems and the benefits are enormous.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Running an onion service is generally much less risky legally speaking than a Tor exit node.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it legality or security? I personally wouldn't want a public facing service on my home network without extensive hardening

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, you could segment it off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would that mean just an extra router + WiFi using the same ISP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are many ways to do it with varying levels of security, but an extra router/firewall would be preferable, yes. And yes using the same ISP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the clarification

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm more worried about opening up a port in my home network.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You don't. The tor service connects out to a node. This is also nice because it means you can run it behind nat and firewall and whatnot without problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'd still have to read up on it and, at the very least, containerize it and preferably use a home router that supports VLANs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

just gotta say, I find it hilarious that an outspoken advocate for russian communism uses TOR.... which was created to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states. with funding from the US gov.

bwahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Democracy" advocates... "Authorian" sure. I guess there is a reason I stopped using it.

Also its Marxism-Leninism, not Russian communism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

buddy it doesn't matter what label you put on the turd, it still stinks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry but for someone who knows just what the Wikipedia intro says about TOR, and having used it like once, I just thought it takes forever to load broken sites just for the benefit of some allegedly improved privacy. I figured it is only useful to people who want to browse illegal sites, but does this mean that any hidden website is illegal? Just for the sake of argument if someone hosts an old-fashioned HTML site about his fucking hobby, will they face legal repercussions just for serving it as a hidden webpage? I can't fathom that.