More technical details from Tor’s Orbot site: The Tor Project describes Orbot as an app that allows mobile users to access the web, instant messaging and email without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider (ISP). To use Tor on Android to connect to Facebook, you’ll need the Orbot proxy app for Android devices. That summer intern got the ball rolling on Android support for Tor, and the project was subsequently picked up by a Facebook team. Since the 2014 introduction, the company’s been receiving requests for additional platform support. That change eliminated steps that required traffic to travel beyond the “cryptographic assurances” provided by the Tor network, Facebook said on Tuesday, and hence increased the security of Tor connections between PCs and Facebook.Ī “sizable” community has adopted the feature, Facebook said. The support for getting to Facebook via Tor on mobile Android devices adds on to similar support for PCs that Facebook created for Tor-enabled browsers in 2014.

Governments may be gnashing their teeth over encryption – we’re looking at you, New York, UK and China – but over the summer, one intern was crunching away at the code necessary to bring Facebook users the increasingly popular ability to connect securely and privately. Facebook has added what it’s calling “experimental support” for Android users to privately browse the world’s largest social network through the anonymity service Tor, the company said on Tuesday.

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