On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:17:45 -0700 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
Ummm, no :) There are still many extreme .onion sites. Mainly "hard candy". A quick scan yielded eight that were up when I checked:
Well, I'd say most of your links show that the content is hardly extreme. Four versions of the **censored** hidden wiki, a couple of discussion boards with barely any content as far as I can tell, one of the 'hacking' forum has 0 posts in all categories, another apparently requires an email address (...), and sites trying to sell ordinary porn for bitcoins, so more than likely outright scams. And there are a couple of sites that seem to link to 'ilegal' content on....clearnet! So although the boards are a 'hidden' service their content isn't actually hosted on tor. Rather suspicious I'd say. So I'll stick to my general view : tor has an extensive record of failure, and if the govt wants a honeypot, then some sites have to last for a while to provide the illusion that 'tor works'.