Dark Web Sites Decrease by 85%

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?

darkwebnews.com/dark-web/hidden-services-decreased/

The dark web has shrunk by approximately 85%.

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.

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004
textfiles.com/directory.html
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

> white onion>red onion
Prove me wrong oh wait you cant

What is wrong with you?

I remember hearing the number of hidden services had ballooned like a year ago and no one was sure why

huh? i'm gay?

yes. you're gay.

wanna be gay together?

Tor was unstable. And obviously monitored heavily by police/fbi/cia/whatever

Tor was compromised by feds for quite some time. We use something else now.

no, i have standards.

we? what do you use?

Here's a (you)

probably because google has started indexing them

CRYPTO RARE

nice Saving Silverman reference

So do all 59 of you know each other or what?

If they know about it, they're not very good dark net sites.

They all have sex with each other. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004

I saw "dark web" while scrolling down page 1 and figured OP was bitching about Worldstar.

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.

Disgusting.

Wasn't Pitcarin one of the islands we wanted to colonize way back when?

No, it's the tiny rock that the mutineers from the HMS Bounty wound up on.

You're thinking Tuvalu, but the more I think about it, it might have been.

We wanted tuvalu and declared war on them

>oh no some bullshit retarded website with nothing of value in it disappeared. the deep web is finished.
great news

I remember the Tuvalu threads, but I also remember Pitcarin being discussed.

Also fuck Tuvalu and the TIDF

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.

Fake or not just today I was thinking about you.

what the fuck hahaha

What ever became of this?

Tidf posted here last week they ripped on a bong and said there war didnt do shit

>anyway
I mean after Freedom Hosting got shut down the first time. I wonder if the Library of Trantor is still up?

I think we got bored with it.

I think about you all the time monaco
Ily :3

I think we got bored and moved on. I have a feeling we're due for another round of island colonization threads soon.

Considering we all post here daily....yes.

War never changes.

Was Library of Trantor a modern version of this? Sounds interesting.

textfiles.com/directory.html

we should preemptively start using tor for political discussion

only a matter of time before sites like this are taken down

that would just divide us.

It says 49 on wiki lmao

Probably some botnet again.

It was mainly focused on novels IIRC

Oh, I use filemare for that. Thought I was missing out on something.

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.

How many children have you raped on your island?

BREADFRUIT NIGGER!

>he doesn't know that ogres have LAYERS

he's probably talking about i2p or freenet

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.

Local mesh nets, obviously. Look for your invite never

Looks fun user, I wish I were as cool as you.