[tor-talk] Hidden services for mundane things (was: Re: Pirate Linux)

[Curious Kid]

>From: Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:38 PM
>
>On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 17:53 -0400, andrew at torproject.org wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 02:38:37PM -0600, akarmn at gmail.com wrote 4.4K bytes in 107 lines about:
>> : Ya its not just the Live CD aspect of it. But also, people aren't going to
>> : use Tor 24/7. So if all internet traffic goes through Tor, that could turn
>> 
>> That's just your assumption. I use tor 24/7 when I travel; or said
>> another way, I only use tails when I travel because I don't trust the
>> networks at hotels, conferences, and places I visit. I also use
>> hidden services heavily to do mundane things like login to servers,
>> check mail, git, etc even when not traveling.
>> 
>> I may also be an outlier from the general population.
>> 
>
>Is there a reason for doing this over a hidden service instead of just
>Tor? I use a hidden service to check if my home server is reachable, but
>if I'm on a network I don't trust (which is most of them) I just connect
>to things through Tor.
>
I would like to know the addresses of hidden services that let you do these things. I may be misunderstanding, Andrew, but are you talking about a hidden service gateway to the rest of the Internet? Is it public?