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A Tor Project grandee sought to correct some misconceptions about the anonymizing network during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas on Friday.
Roger Dingledine, one of the three founders of the Tor Project, castigated journos for mischaracterizing the pro-privacy system as a bolthole exclusively used by drug dealers and pedophiles to hide from the authorities.
In fact, he said, only three per cent of Tor users connect to hidden services, suggesting the vast majority of folks on the network are using it to anonymously browse public websites for completely legit purposes. In other words, netizens – from journalists to activists to normal peeps – use Tor to mask their identities from website owners, and it's not just underworld villains.
Dingledine even went as far as saying the dark web – a landscape of websites concealed within networks like Tor – is so insignificant, it can be discounted.
Only 3%, but what a 3% it is, eh?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 31 2017, @08:01PM
the links are obfuscated so it would be difficult to automate visiting them, but are trivial for humans to resolve:
http soylentnews org
h__p://soylentnews.org
Text in bitmap images. I even found one on Last.fm.
There are vast quantities of all three of these. Often they use a "link protection service" to hide the referring page.
Most of it is available for download on oron.com and the like. Most such downloads require a paid account. The uploader gets a portion of that money - so you can get paid real money if you make kiddieporn available on the open web.
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