The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service by Runa Sandvik.
From the post:
Today we are announcing an experiment in secure communication, and launching an alternative way for people to access our site: we are making the nytimes.com website available as a Tor Onion Service.
The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around the world. Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website; or because they worry about local network monitoring; or because they care about online privacy; or simply because that is the method that they prefer.
The Times is dedicated to delivering quality, independent journalism, and our engineering team is committed to making sure that readers can access our journalism securely. This is why we are exploring ways to improve the experience of readers who use Tor to access our website.
One way we can help is to set up nytimes.com as an Onion Service — making our website accessible via a special, secure and hard-to-block VPN-like “tunnel” through the Tor network. The address for our Onion Service is:
https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/
This onion address is accessible only through the Tor network, using special software such as the Tor Browser. Such tools assure our readers that our website can be reached without monitors or blocks, and they provide additional guarantees that readers are connected securely to our website.
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The New York Times (NYT) “going dark,” benefits the Tor project several ways:
- Increases the legitimacy of Tor
- Increases the visibility of Tor
- Lead to more robust Tor relays
- More support for Tor development
- Spreading usage of Tor browsers
Time to press other publishers, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, the Daily Beast, The Hill, NPR, the LA Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Reuters, the Guardian, to name only a few, for Tor onion services.
Be forewarned, a login to the NYT destroys whatever anonymity you sought by accessing https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/.
You may be anonymous to your local government, but the NYT is subject to the whims and caprices of the US government. A login to the NYT site, even using Tor, puts your identity and reading habits at risk.