Twitter has become the latest tech giant to launch a dedicated Tor onion service, days after it was blocked in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. The launch will allow users in Russia to bypass the government’s internet blocks that are stifling the flow of information across the country.
Alec Muffett, a cybersecurity researcher with a long history of working with the Tor network, was behind the project, the launch of which was announced on Tuesday. Twitter’s new Tor service is based on a version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit (EOTK), a tool that Muffett designed to help website owners add a .onion URL for their site’s domain in a matter of minutes, that has been customized to meet Twitter’s “extraordinary production requirements.”
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