Have there been any important political secrets divulged on Tor thus far? I once found some Mormon sealing ceremonies but given that Tor is supposed to be a safe haven for whistleblowing journalists have any big scoops come out from its use?
This was the revelation that was brought to light by a published OnionScan report after the web hosting giant Freedom Hosting II (FHII) was taken offline in an apparent breach earlier this year.
The site was taken down by vigilante group of hacktivists after it was discovered that the web hosting service was home to explicit child abuse and pornography websites.
Known to serve an estimated 15 to 20% of all of the dark web sites, no one expected the impact of its closure to be as extensive as it is now.
Anonymity and privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis confirmed that the dark web has indeed been cut down significantly following the takedown of the web hosting giant.
A scan with the investigation tool OnionScan proved that she was right.
According to research that was conducted by Deep Light, a reputable threat intelligence firm, the ballpark number of dark web services in April 2016 stood at approximately 30,000.
Of the 30,000 dark web sites that were probed with OnionScan, a scanning tool which Lewis helped develop, only 4,400 sites were shown to be currently active.
I saw "dark web" while scrolling down page 1 and figured OP was bitching about Worldstar.
Adrian Parker
Dark Web is literally only CP and drugs. Only illegal shit. It's to be expected that it would die the second there are even slight concerns about its security. Nobody's gonna risk it.
Sebastian Brooks
Disgusting.
Wasn't Pitcarin one of the islands we wanted to colonize way back when?
Evan Wilson
No, it's the tiny rock that the mutineers from the HMS Bounty wound up on.
Dominic Fisher
You're thinking Tuvalu, but the more I think about it, it might have been.
Nolan Allen
We wanted tuvalu and declared war on them
Camden Thomas
>oh no some bullshit retarded website with nothing of value in it disappeared. the deep web is finished. great news
Lucas Harris
I remember the Tuvalu threads, but I also remember Pitcarin being discussed.
Also fuck Tuvalu and the TIDF
Evan Roberts
There used to be spoopy shit there, mostly tinfoil tier, but still entertaining. I think most of the people who there for CP and drugs moved to other services anyway.
Ayden Taylor
Fake or not just today I was thinking about you.
Liam Lewis
what the fuck hahaha
Aaron Myers
What ever became of this?
Joseph Myers
Tidf posted here last week they ripped on a bong and said there war didnt do shit
Samuel James
>anyway I mean after Freedom Hosting got shut down the first time. I wonder if the Library of Trantor is still up?
Jayden Brooks
I think we got bored with it.
Anthony Allen
I think about you all the time monaco Ily :3
Camden Morgan
I think we got bored and moved on. I have a feeling we're due for another round of island colonization threads soon.
William Jones
Considering we all post here daily....yes.
Noah Russell
War never changes.
Sebastian Collins
Was Library of Trantor a modern version of this? Sounds interesting.
we should preemptively start using tor for political discussion
only a matter of time before sites like this are taken down
Blake Torres
that would just divide us.
Evan Brown
It says 49 on wiki lmao
Robert Sanders
Probably some botnet again.
Aaron Turner
It was mainly focused on novels IIRC
Luis Lopez
Oh, I use filemare for that. Thought I was missing out on something.
Henry Mitchell
There used to be a lot of stuff like you linked in onionland, you just had to look. Now there's like ten different versions of the hidden wiki and all the links are dead. It's kind of sad, some of the lights are still on but no one's home.
Oliver Carter
How many children have you raped on your island?
Jaxson Diaz
BREADFRUIT NIGGER!
David Campbell
>he doesn't know that ogres have LAYERS
Grayson Reyes
he's probably talking about i2p or freenet
Gabriel Fisher
The amount of sites hasn't decreased. People are just now learning how to properly configure their robot.txt files to hide from web crawlers.
Luis Kelly
Local mesh nets, obviously. Look for your invite never