[tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 02:32:19 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> wrote:
> The obvious problem with this (((this, right here, is the productive
> contribution to discussion this email has: it points out the problem
> with your proposed methodologies))) is that it presumes that these top
> 50 .onion domains comprise the majority of .onion traffic through your
> node. I suspect this is not the case.
>
> If I'm right, and most of the .onion traffic through any given node is
> over the "long tail", it won't be possible to get anything useful
> without an automated classifier.

It's odd that this thread started with a discussion of some sketchy research
which worked by running an automated spider moving enormous amounts of
traffic.

So the very thing that inspired the conversation ruins the proposed methodology.

Tisk tisk.


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