On 06/25/2014 03:56 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: > Basically, I keep a track of site numbers year-on-year, site > availability from 3rd party monitoring and read comments on forums > and chat. From what I can gather, most of these sites were suspected > of being honeypots due to their tendency to remove anything > rape/violence related. That is, they appeared sanitised in some way. > Then all of sudden, they started disappearing. Some were connected > with major busts of hosting providers, others without any indication > what happened.
I believe that most of the hidden-service sites that you allude to were on Freedom Hosting. Also, recall that the Freedom Hosting operation involved the deanonymization of many site operators and visitors. As a result, many other sites were likely compromised in cascade. > Whilst it may be good in some sense, it states that Tor is failing in > its primary task of promoting freedom through anonymity. In fact, it > would seem that Tor is having the opposite effect, silencing everyone > through fear. Certainly, some of this comes down to poor security > practices, but that cannot explain the scale of what has happened. > > So, the question remains, what is wrong with the Anonymity and > Security of Tor? The software is compromised in some fashion and we > need to understand this. You conflate "Tor" with hidden services. Hosting hidden services securely is indeed a nontrivial endeavor. But that doesn't speak to the anonymity that Tor provides for its users. > Regards, > > Mark McCarron <SNIP> -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
