Re: [tor-talk] Warning: 37 new booby trapped onion sites

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/3/16, lukep <lukep@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi - the question as to which is the "real" onion address and which is the
> "fake" one is a matter of interpretation. Normally there's a "real" onion
> first and then some copy-cats later - then you can compare the copy-cats to
> the original and decide that they are fakes. But what if you don't find out
> about the "real" onion if you've already found the copy-cat first and put
> that in your list? Or what if the "real" owner decides that they want to
> change onion address, would you mark that as a "fake" ?
>
> It's not cut-and-dry

Already told people long ago that if you posess all the supposed real
onions you can time them to find the real one every time.
If they are not proxies but clones, then you only can use first pub date
and other user facing / social things.
It is not reasonable for an onion index to dedicate unpaid resources
to textually, visually, usage and otherwise determining and accepting
liability which of 10000 sites was published first or is current / real.
And you should consider trust level in any who you might pay for
such things.
There are crypto ways to make certain assertions but that isn't
popular done because it's a pain to do so, trust and fees lack, users
are tech clueless to verify, where social means of assertion and
observation are relatively equivalent and effective.
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