Posted by speckx 10/23/2025
TIL that Onion-Location is a header, only new about the <meta> element.
<meta http-equiv="onion-location" content="http://<your-onion-service-address>.onion" />Having to deal with law enforcement is unlikely even if you run a normal, encrypted, TOR relay.
Exit nodes, on the other hand, will most likely get letters or even visits by law enforcement. But those are not involved at all when just running an onion service.
Or do, and call your bank's customer support until they fix it.
Or wait until the next day when it's your neighbour's problem because your IP changes every day and your bank gets a bunch of complaints from different customers who are your neighbours.
I know they can, and sometimes do, but do people really experience this daily/weekly?
On DSL networks it's been the opposite, if the PPPoE session was lost I was definitely going to get a new IP address, and on some providers the session would be reset every 1-7 days so the IP would change at exactly the same time of day which almost always ended up being in the middle of a work day corresponding with whenever the equipment was last rebooted due to some other problem. I got in the habit of setting up my equipment to restart on its own terms in the middle of the night on those providers, but this came with its own downsides when something would go wrong and it'd fail to negotiate.
Yeah, or, hear me out... Someone used the exit node for active attacks. (Gasp! What? On my onion?)
Surely I can't be the only one to think of this right?
Here's one article that alludes to it re: CIA informants in Iran, but I seem to remember China killing US spies and it just not making the news at all
"an analysis by two independent cybersecurity specialists found that the now-defunct covert online communication system that Hosseini used – located by Reuters in an internet archive – may have exposed at least 20 other Iranian spies and potentially hundreds of other informants operating in other countries around the world.
This messaging platform, which operated until 2013, was hidden within rudimentary news and hobby websites where spies could go to connect with the CIA. Reuters confirmed its existence with four former U.S. officials."
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...
>https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-ce...
>WebTunnel is a censorship-resistant pluggable transport designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) inspired by HTTPT. It works by wrapping the payload connection into a WebSocket-like HTTPS connection, appearing to network observers as an ordinary HTTPS (WebSocket) connection. So, for an onlooker without the knowledge of the hidden path, it just looks like a regular HTTP connection to a webpage server giving the impression that the user is simply browsing the web.
Personally, I doubt the US TLAs have a need to operate any relays themselves. They can simply wiretap, and use control flow data for correlation when necessary. Tor can still be useful for all those who do not try to hide from the few agencies who may have this kind of visibility.
The relay community is pretty good in terms of interacting with each other. There are real-world meetings to get to know others in the space, which may make you also more comfortable seeing their personal reasons for providing bandwidth.
Did I understand correctly? You can create a site with a .onion extension without a domain on a hosting service.
I'm thinking. If you can do it this way with .onion, can you do it with something else? That would be a bit unusual.
If that were possible, being able to customize the extensions would be interesting. Being able to customize brand names. Like .mybrand, or .egg, .bread, whatever you want.