{"id":152567,"date":"2016-01-21T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=152567"},"modified":"2016-01-21T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T06:21:04","slug":"facebook-adding-tor-support-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/152567-facebook-adding-tor-support-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook adding Tor support for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/facebook-over-tor\/adding-tor-support-on-android\/814612545312134\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will\u00a0offer support for using Facebook over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/docs\/android.html.en\">Tor via the Orbot proxy app for Android devices<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company created a Tor onion address at <strong>https:\/\/www.facebookcorewwwi.onion\/<\/strong> in 2014 to make it easier for people to connect to Facebook securely from Tor-enabled browsers.<\/p>\n<p>This increased the security of Tor connections to Facebook by eliminating steps that required traffic to travel beyond the cryptographic assurances provided by the Tor network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commonly receive requests for additional platform support beyond the browser, and we are now offering experimental support for using Facebook over Tor via the Orbot proxy app for Android devices,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it is releasing the feature over the next few days, with the aim of receiving feedback.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/149269-biggest-facebook-topics-of-2015.html\">Biggest Facebook topics of 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/147045-mark-zuckerberg-to-take-off-from-facebook-for-paternity-leave.html\">Mark Zuckerberg to take off from Facebook for paternity leave<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/148557-facebook-taking-on-google-and-younow-with-live-video.html\">Facebook taking on Google and YouNow with live video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will offer support for Tor via the Orbot proxy app for Android devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,397,161,2818],"class_list":["post-152567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-android","tag-facebook","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152571,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152567\/revisions\/152571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}