Activist Checklist's Tor onion service
Activist Checklist is available as a Tor onion service. Visiting this site through Tor hides what you are reading from your internet provider, the people running your network, and from us.
While you can visit the regular site using Tor Browser, using the onion service link below provides an extra layer of privacy.
For most people, visiting the regular ActivistChecklist.org site in a privacy-focused browser is plenty.
Our Tor onion address
http://actchkqornmbfjlsiepfm57lqlqsbpflih6kzomq73gfsz4cesuhujad.onion
How to use it
- Install Tor Browser on desktop or Onion Browser on iOS. On Android, use Tor Browser for Android.
- Open the browser and paste the address above into the URL bar.
- The site loads just like the regular version. Internal links keep you on the onion automatically.
If you visit our regular site (ActivistChecklist.org) inside Tor Browser, you will see a small purple onion icon in the address bar. Click it and Tor Browser will switch you over to the onion version.
What is Tor, and why might I want it?
Tor is a free privacy tool that hides what you do online from most of the people who would otherwise be watching. It's highly trusted by privacy experts around the world.
Without Tor, every site you visit gets logged in a few places. Your internet provider (Comcast, AT&T, T-Mobile, whoever) keeps a record of every site you load, and they have to hand those records over when law enforcement, ICE, or a federal agency legally requests them. Whoever runs the network you're on (your employer, your school, the coffee shop, your landlord's building Wi-Fi) can see the same thing. And the sites themselves see your real IP address, which reveals your approximate location and can be tracked across your web activity to identify you.
With Tor, your traffic bounces through three random volunteer-run computers somewhere in the world before it reaches the site you're going to. Your internet provider can tell you're using Tor, but not what you're reading. The site sees a Tor exit point in another country, not you. Your local Wi-Fi sees only an encrypted blob.
You can use Tor Browser to visit any site with full anonymity. (As long as you don't reveal your identity by providing information to a site or logging into a website attached to your real-world identity.)
What our onion address adds on top of that
When you read our regular site (ActivistChecklist.org) inside Tor Browser, you're already getting most of the protection above. Your traffic still has to leave Tor through an "exit node" (someone's computer running Tor) to reach our server, and that exit sees the connection (though not who you are).
Loading the onion address above keeps your traffic inside the Tor network the whole way, with no detour out through the regular internet. The address itself is the cryptographic proof that you're on our real site, not a phishing copy.
Verifying the address
The exact 56-character URL ending in .onion is what proves you are on the real site.
If you want an even strong gurantee that the onion link you see above hasn't been tampered with, you can verify it by comparing: a PGP-signed copy at here, signed with our public key.
Our public key is also available from Proton here and from keys.openpgp.org here.