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Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

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Re: Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

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> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. What does it mean? I'm not seeing any PGP clearsigned text in there...

He verifies before adding & has good track record doing so honestly, but yeah it would be better if he posted all of them openly. Most .onion sites host their public key at /pgp.txt, some host mirrors at /mirrors.txt . Empire Market for example has a /safe URL which signs the current URL to prove it is official. Most users don't do it though and trust this site to do it for them instead :/

Sounds like something a plugin for the Tor browser could easily do.

Re: Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

#15

Tor admins and cyber researchers rely heavily on this site to disseminate links in the wake of DeepDotWeb’s takedown. DDoS attackers seem to love it too as some sites change their .onion URLs ~hourly. Interesting how all sides of a battle can find a simple verified link so useful.

> some sites change their .onion URLs ~hourly.

Not sure why you would do this?

Do you have an example?

Re: Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

#17

Is an illegal* site online? If I built this service I’d just log all the IPs from the requests and just hand them to the FBI.

The BBC just announced the launch of their Tor site. Clearly Tor sites and illegal sites are not equivalent. Unless, perhaps, you live in China.

Re: Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

#18

Is an illegal* site online? If I built this service I’d just log all the IPs from the requests and just hand them to the FBI.

Why would you violate your users' privacy just because of the network they are using? Many activists use sites listed here, including ProtonMail, Keybase, DuckDuckGo.

If you're so happy to help USA law enforcement without a subpoena it's a very good thing you didn't build Facebook or Twitter.

Re: Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

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Is an illegal* site online? If I built this service I’d just log all the IPs from the requests and just hand them to the FBI.

Why would you violate your users' privacy just because of the network they are using? Many activists use sites listed here, including ProtonMail, Keybase, DuckDuckGo. If you're so happy to help USA law enforcement without a subpoena it's a very good thing you didn't build Facebook or Twitter.

Because the people who built Facebook or Twitter don’t do that, right? Let’s be serious.
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