[tor-talk] Improved sharing of .onion links on Facebook!

[xxx]

Well, my account "blocked" means that they asked me an official 
DOCUMENT! As Photoshop is a good friend, no problem, but...

Something else we tested on FB: They quite often ask people to "upload a 
photo" (of them), until what the account is blocked. We noticed that:

If we send a picture picked up on FB profiles (other persons so, even 
from other countries etc), it is always declined and the account IS 
locked for good.

If we send the same picture but with modifications (photoshop again), it 
is generally accepted and the account is unlocked.

It seems, so, that FB is comparing the submitted photo with the photos 
that have already been uploaded. MD5 has or more probably something more 
sophisticated...

Considering this and the FB reputation about privacy violations, I even 
suspect that they are making lists of people using TOR! In short, better 
connect from a public place with a spoofed MAC address ;)



On 15/6/2017 22:16, Alec Muffett wrote:
> On 15 June 2017 at 20:03, xxx <torlist4 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
>> I really wonder what is facebook doing with tor!
>> They offer an entry page at https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/
>> Every time I tried to signup, thay block the process until I submit a
>> phone number to get a "confirmation sms"!
>> Moreover, trying to enter a FB account opened "normally" (without proxy),
>> no way! They even blocked my account immediately :)
>> What is the interest offering to use TOR?!
> 
> 
> I wrote this to explain why, ages ago; short version -- it's not about
> anonymity:
> 
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237/
> 
> Also, possibly you got "blocked" but I suspect that it's more likely that
> you got "checkpointed"; for people who may be interested:
> 
> - if there's a box asking you to answer some questions because something
> apparently weird is going on, IT'S NOT A BLOCK.
> - A "block" is when the site tells you "go away and never come back"
> without recourse.
> - If it's just asking you questions / to jump through hoops, it's trying to
> protect your account in case you got hacked.
> - Eventually it will learn.
> - The funniest story was the time that Runa Sandvik got checkpointed
> because Runa tried logging in one day *without* using Tor / the FB Onion:
> https://twitter.com/runasand/status/728001665018802176
> - More at https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/757678012812894208
> 
>      - alec
>