Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

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.

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

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Post by privdev » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 8:11 PM UTC

Lost 100$ to phishing site back in the day when testing blockchain analysis on my AlphaBay deposits, I deposited into a phisher's wallet and ended up watching that on the blockchain instead with no withdraw ability. I should have PGP verified link. This DarkDotFail guy is honest for now but time will tell. Tor is wild west with PGP the only way to really know anyone is who they claim.

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

#8

Post by jamil7 » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 9:08 AM UTC

privdev wrote: post #7

Lost 100$ to phishing site back in the day when testing blockchain analysis on my AlphaBay deposits, I deposited into a phisher's wallet and ended up watching that on the blockchain instead with no withdraw ability. I should have PGP verified link. This DarkDotFail guy is honest for now but time will tell. Tor is wild west with PGP the only way to really know anyone is who they claim.

I don't disagree but isn't this always the case with PGP?

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

#9

Post by Leace » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP.

What does it mean? I'm not seeing any PGP clearsigned text in there...

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

#10

Post by yessenia1 » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

Leace wrote: post #9

> 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 :/