Well, and there’s surveillance from the client’s side, meaning connecting to the network will be unsafe for your social rating. If you accidentally connect to the network for even a second, you’re done.
Well, and there’s surveillance from the client’s side, meaning connecting to the network will be unsafe for your social rating. If you accidentally connect to the network for even a second, you’re done.
yeah, I was about to comment tor onionsites
The Onion is the most closely watched part of the network by authorities
sorry, are you reffering to “The Onion” news or onoinsites?
i think the hard-to-guess (ie you have to know the domain to find the site, you can’t just search for it or guess the domain) and anonymous nature of onoinsites means that authorities don’t really care about legal or mostly legal (ie not giant illegal goods marketplaces) as the effort to de-anonymise them is not worth it.
if my assumptions are wrong then please correct me.
The onion network was made by the secret service and the military of the US, and all its servers. It is still used by those for intern communication and also controlled its traffic. More than 2000 sites raided by the authorities every year, show that it has few to do with security to use it, precisely because it is used by all kind of criminal activity. This is why eg, drugbarons nowadays prefer to use P2P comunication or simply pencil and paper. As aid, the future isn’t the Onion, it’s i2p or other decentralized networks.
don’t eepsites have a lot of the issues that onionsites have as well?
if a party were to acquire a large portion of routers, eepsites could be deanonymised as well, couldn’t they? the only difference i see is that i2p is not as popular as tor and therefore not a target of agencies (yet).
also i think most tor nodes nowadays are run by volunteers (of course you could argue that they are agencies in hiding)
they also can’t control the network because the software is not designed to be controled (which we can confirm ourselves as it is open source)
2000 sites every year? i wasn’t able to find anything on that
from the markets and people that were deanonymised that i heard of, the crack in anonymity was always the person leaking their identity through some other means like using the same email for irl and dark web stuff or the feds applying social engeneering, not a fault of the tor network