Twitter makes another puzzling security decision, and its most vulnerable users could pay the price

Date:
Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:50:45 +0000

Description:
Twitters security and privacy-focused Tor onion is down, and it may never
come back again.

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Exactly one year ago, Twitter announced a Tor onion service designed to maintain security and prevent tracking, allowing citizens in countries where the social media platform is banned to continue using it.

Naturally, Russia was in mind at the time of the announcement, which remains restricted to this day. With it being illegal for news outlets to report anything other than the official, government narrative on the war in Russia, Twitter has become an important source of objectivity in the country.

However, Twitters so-called onion is currently down, leaving users in
affected countries currently without access due to national web blocks and susceptible to other filters and attacks. Twitter Tor onion

Just two days short of its first birthday, it seems that Twitter has allowed the certificate for its onion to expire.

There has been no official word by Twitter on the matter, and since CEO Elon Musk killed off the company's communications department, it has been notoriously difficult to even get in touch with the platform. Read more

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The onion site is no longer available seemingly with no plans to renew. The Tor Project has reached out to Twitter to look into bringing the onion
version of the social media platform back online," the Tor Project said to
The Verge .

Security engineer Alec Muffett who made the launch announcement on behalf of Twitter last year explained that the people who built it at least all those [he] interacted with are all gone.

With the network officially banning third-party clients like Tweetbot and countless other controversial moves, some believe that Twitters onion may be over and out for good this time. Here are the best business VPN tools



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