To comprehend this number, you have to understand that hidden services are not necessarily public websites meant to be advertised and seen by all.
After all, if you dive into the Dark Net and go to some of the major directories such as the Hidden Wiki, only a few thousand websites are likely to be listed for public consumption. Facebook has a hidden service and many mainstream websites have considered following suit.Įven so, the 30,000 number might strike even some regular users as surprisingly high. Other hidden services are used to promote censored writing or to enable anonymous chat services. Silk Road, the multimillion dollar anonymous black market that was shut down in 2013, is the most famous hidden service of all time. The newly launched Tor search engine called Onion.city-probably the finest Tor search engine in existence-is indexing about 350,000 pages, and it’s only been around for less than a week.ĭespite hidden services accounting for around 3.4 percent of Tor’s traffic, they’ve made up the vast majority of the media conversation surrounding Tor. Once you dive into the specific hidden services themselves, their depth becomes immediately apparent.
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