Roger Dingledine: > 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 )
Thanks Roger, and Moritz too. I've put together an article and placed it on the Tor Trac/Wiki: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HowBigIsTheDarkWeb It's a start, and I'll keep searching for more relevant information. I have no idea how to make it appear on the front page, but then maybe it should wait to see whether or not it is up to standards first. -- kat -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
