On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 02:50:53AM -0800, Virgil Griffith wrote: > Right now I perceive consensus in accepting the term "onion services" > as a synonym for "hidden services", and when it's specifically a > website, also suggesting the more specific term, "onion site".
For reasons I stated (separating the service the network provides of doing the hiding from the service available via hidden access), I prefer "onion site" as a general term even for non-websites despite other drawbacks thereof. Beside pejorative connotations, another conceptual confusion frequently made in the media and important to counter is that these sites/services/whatever are part of the Tor network. Yes I know they also confuse "The Web" with "The Internet" but its even more useful for us to keep those separate. Calling them "onion sites" rather than "onion services" helps with that in my opinion. aloha, Paul -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
