Announcing the feature, Facebook engineer Alec Muffett said that "Facebook's onion address provides a way to access Facebook through Tor without losing the cryptographic protections provided by the Tor cloud.
Anunțând această caracteristică, Alec Muffett a spus că "extensia .onion a Facebook oferă o modalitate de a accesa Facebook prin Tor fără a pierde protecțiile criptografice furnizate de Tor prin cloud.