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Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:22:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote:
> >In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated to
> >London. I can't imagine why.
>
> How can a .onion geolocate anywhere? Arent they supposed to be entirely in
> cyberspace and hidden?
>
You are assuming a hidden (double) onion service.
Facebook uses a single onion service.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/260-rend-single-onion.txt
aloha,
Paul
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