The Dark Web Has Shrunk By 85% (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday March 7, 2017 @10:00PM from the size-doesn't-matter dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The number of Dark web services has gone down significantly following the Freedom Hosting II hack that took place at the start of February, and only consists of around 4,400 services, according to a recently published OnionScan report. Previous research published in April 2016 by threat intelligence firm Deep Light had the total number of Dark Web services at around 30,000. Comparing the two numbers, the report shows a decrease of over 85% in the overall size of Dark Web in the last year alone. According to the recent OnionScan statistics, the Dark Web is laughably small, with around 4,000 HTTP websites, 250 TLS (HTTPS) endpoints, 100 SMTP services, and only 10 FTP nodes.

4 of 107 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Has the dark web shrunk 85%? by GuB-42 · 2017-03-07 22:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

Or has it became 85% darker?
1. Re:Has the dark web shrunk 85%? by JoeMerchant · 2017-03-08 03:38 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Calling TOR the Dark Web is like calling a movie you can stream on Netflix "obscure, exclusive, and little known."
  The real Dark Web is the stuff you don't know that you don't know about. Packets passing through the backbone that nobody but the sender and receiver understand.
...and all of them are run by FBI by hlavac · 2017-03-07 22:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

There is no dark web these are probably all honeypots :)
Moved over to i2p by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-07 23:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

Moved over to i2p. .onion is so, so, so, 2009.