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'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:30AM from the ok-but-is-it-better? dept.

rossgneumann writes A new anonymous online drug market has emerged, but instead of using the now infamous Tor network, it uses the lesser known "I2P" alternative. "Silk Road Reloaded" launched yesterday, and is only accessible by downloading the special I2P software, or by configuring your computer in a certain way to connect to I2P web pages, called 'eepsites', and which end in the suffix .i2p. The I2P project site is informative, as is the Wikipedia entry.

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Re:Infamous Tor Network? by IamTheRealMike · 2015-01-12 03:55 · Score: 5, Informative

Why don't you watch the talk and find out?
Actually I'll just summarise it for you. If you run a lot of Tor nodes you will eventually get picked to host a hidden service directory. Then you can measure lookups for the entries of hidden services to measure their popularity, and crawl them to find out what's on them.