On 2/4/15, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Darknet is hardly dark, or no more than Tor anonymizes, ...
true; perhaps best quantified as: "no ISP asshattery". but fails like all earth human technology in face of capable attacker with significant resources. [ specifically, onion overlay avoids TCP RST, DNS redir, local network ARP poisoning, IPv4/IPv6 BGP route jacking, transport privacy and authenticity** attacks (rewrite proxy) ] ** key management, someone has to do it. and it is always cumbersome... but that is nary a sliver in the sky of surface exposed, in typical "rich web service" context, full of javascript and media handlers and plug-ins, oh my! tell us John, do your server logs show mostly complete or incomplete downloads of Cfour? :P