[tor-talk] Warning: 37 new booby trapped onion sites

[Nurmi, Juha]

I found over 200 more fake onions and filtered them. I don't like that
someone sabotages the onion ecosystem.

-Juha


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Juha Nurmi <juha.nurmi at ahmia.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > If somebody hosts a dark website, that doesn't have a verifiable
> external way
> > to lookup their URL, then the only way you can verify them is to talk
> with a
> > bunch of other people, web-of-trust style. Which also has a bunch of
> ways it
> > can be undermined.
> >
>
> That's true. You have to trust the source(s) of the URL.
>
> > In any event, Juha, in your list, how do you know which ones are real and
> > fake?
> >
>
> I compared my real ahmia (msydqstlz2kzerdg.onion) to the fake one. I
> scanned them and detected the difference. The fake ahmia changes URLs to
> point to fake services.
>
> BTW, the attacker removed the fake version of Ahmia! It seems that the
> attacker didn't like my active countermeasures.
>
> Peace,
> Juha
>