Quote from: googleyed1 on April 22, 2013, 08:06 am2. OP says in page 1 that he accessed SR outside of Tor? Not possible.Actually there is a website called tor2web. If you add ".to" to any hidden service URL you'll see that it's possible to access them via clearnet.Unfortunately a whole lot of newbs are using this service due to ignorance or foolishness.Literally anybody monitoring packets traveling to the tor2web service could pick up your username and password. SSL is about as secure as a government wants it to be (not that tor2web is even pretending to have a proper certificate), the protocol is not to be trusted, partly due to it's nature, and partly thanks to the horror stories we continually are hearing over the last few years.I actually think tor2web is a pretty awesome project and it should keep going. I also think people who aren't technologically adept are going to get eaten alive in the future, one way or the other, and this is yet another example of it. I don't like it, it's just that I also can't see a way for somebody this naive to survive in any kind of situation that requires some tech aptitude.