[tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

With Weather Eye Open wweo at Safe-mail.net
Fri Aug 10 14:26:11 UTC 2012


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> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:00:39 +0300
> From: Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su>
> 
> Yes, if gathering .onion access statistics were possible, I would load
> each .onion address in a top-50 list and see what it contains, or
> search for the address if access requires authentication. The reason
> is that I am curious and don't have an agenda to protect, unlike Tor
> project policy people. Why do you pretend that it's difficult to do?

It's not pretending that it's difficult to do.  It is, in fact, difficult to do just by the nature of how Tor functions.  Even if you were logging everything that came out of an exit node that you control, you wouldn't be able to get good stats from that.  You'd need a significant sampling of other Tor exit nodes to do the same thing.  It's a bit hard to accept that you don't have an agenda to protect when you come in here asserting one of the most demonizing talking points against Tor with nothing hard to back up your claims other than "some guy on reddit said so."


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