On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 05:06 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:44:11PM +1000, Katya Titov wrote: > > So are there any useful stats on the size of the dark web? > > Check out http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#oakland2013-trawling > for some statistics about the number of hidden services as of about > a year ago. It's not all that precise (and the fact that they could > collect these stats represents several bugs: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-need-some-love ) > but it's pretty darn clear that it's not "vast reaches of the Internet" > -- more like on the order of 1000 hidden services, many of which aren't > all that popular. > > (Not that popularity is a good judge of the value of a hidden service; > see example #1 on https://blog.torproject.org/blog/using-tor-good ) And considering the existence of systems like Torchat where every user has their own hidden service used only for private communication, it's plausible that a large part of the hidden services, maybe even a majority, have nothing to do with the web at all. --ll
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