[tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

[CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA]

On 2016-02-19 01:40, Jeremy Rand wrote:
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> On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy
>>> <admin at nsuchy.top> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember
>>>> the name. But new addresses are generated for each client. On
>>>> Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM Alexandre Guillioud <
>>>> guillioud.alexandre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd
>>>>> on
>>>> software
>>>>> to maintain a HS pool. During dev, and at one point, i was
>>>>> emitting thousands of registration a day.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2016-02-18 16:51 GMT+01:00 Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Here is the exact link:
>>>>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>>> it jumped from 40000 to 60000 in the past day or two.
>> 
>> That chat program you are referring to would be ricochet IM
>> 
> 
> Well, there was something called TorChat which fits that description,
> but TorChat hasn't gotten any security updates or maintenance in
> years, so Ricochet is pretty clearly preferable.
> 
> Cheers,
> - -Jeremy Rand
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I also know latest version of Bitcoin Core has capability of 
automatically creating .onion host, maybe the testing of that could have 
been result in spike as well? Though I am leaning more towards botnet or 
malware being the likely reason behind jump in hidden services.

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