virtues of middlemen

[anon ymous]

On 12/29/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> The Tor network so far is largely seen only as an anonymizing
> layer, to access the "real" Internet.
>
> However, it is fully capable of becoming a real Darknet,
> provided hidden services achieve a critical mass, and there
> will be a search engine indexing the lot, preferrably a
> distributed one.

"Will be"?
There is a whole network of yacy-servers and at least 2 non-yacy
search-engines already. There are wikis, blogs, file-upload-sites,
hosting, irc-servers, ... today.