On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:19 PM Yuri <[1]yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:

     On 07/06/2016 12:32, grarpamp wrote:
     >
     [2]https://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-maps-show-what-the-dark-w
     eb-looks-like
     >
     > What does the dark web actually look like? Well, new research maps
     out
     > the relationships between a load of Tor hidden services, and shows
     > that many dark web sites, rather than being isolated entities, are
     > perhaps more intimately intertwined than commonly thought.
     The article says "this lack of diversity in hosting infrastructure
     is
     concerning—it places the future of a large proportion of Onion
     Services
     in the hands of a limited number of groups". The future web might
     even
     have no hosting, because the new technologies like ZeroNet don't
     require
     hosting at all. I personally believe that distributed architecture
     is
     superior to centralized architecture, and is a way to go.

   Agree with the need for decentralized architectures, though ZeroNet is
   only part of the way there. It's fine for small, static sites, blogs,
   and small chat rooms, but the mail and ID services are each controlled
   by one individual, and all their data are flooded to all users. We
   really need a platform on which to build decentralized apps, more like
   Freenet or Gnunet.
   As for centralization in Tor, it wasn't clear to me from the article
   that the related sites were actually legit as opposed to, say, clones.
   Since they found sites that only linked among themselves, they must
   have just been mass scanning onion addresses. But what we really care
   about are the sites a lot of people actually use. For such a purpose,
   finding and ranking the sites by spidering from a few well-known seed
   sites would be more useful than enumerating all the hidden sites. They
   talked about a bunch of sites being hosted by the same hosting
   provider, but given that they had identical SSH host keys I'd guess
   they were all actually the same machine, since it would be criminally
   negligent for a hosting provider to use the same key across all its
   machines.

References

   1. mailto:yuri@rawbw.com
   2. https://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-maps-show-what-the-dark-web-looks-like