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The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
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- dorianm 11y agoThe Sci-Hub Tor URL is https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion (source: https://vk.com/sci_hub?w=wall-36928352_5896 https://vk.com/sci_hub?w=wall-36928352_5896) Image: http://i.imgur.com/xZmDmPY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xZmDmPY.jpg
- lucastx 11y agoYou pasted a HTTPS address, but the server doesn't answer to HTTPS (it is somewhat redundant when you use onion services anyway). The correct one is http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/ http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
- captainmuon 11y agoIt's not redundant; if someone sets up a malicious exit node they can view all your traffic, unless it is encrypted e.g. by SSL. Of course for this kind of site that is not so important, but you shouldn't use any kind of site where you log in or enter sensitive information over Tor without HTTPS.
- duskwuff 11y agoTraffic to .onion URLs is terminated within the Tor network. It doesn't pass through exit nodes. HTTPS is actually a bit redundant for .onion URLs, as the hostname is a representation of the host's public key.
- torthrowappp 11y agoIt's fully redundant for .onion sites. Traffic destined for them never goes through exit nodes. It is only ever encrypted in a way that is readable only by the specific .onion destination.
- anc84 11y ago> the dark web, a part of the Internet often associated with drugs, weapons, and child porn. Indeed, due to journalists perpetuating that meme on and on again. Thanks for strengthening the bad image, Atlantic.
- mirimir 11y agoWell, "drugs, weapons, and child porn" are better clickbait than "resisting censorship and repression", no?
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agothanks, I was just about to quote the same paragraph. Totally ludicrous. Every time a misguided journalist writes about the "underground drug-web", which is shaped like the underneath of an iceberg, and 1000x larger than the "real" Internet, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a tear. /s Please make it stop.
- abricot 11y agoIt's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Every time a journalist writes that it is "often associated with" it gradually becomes more associated with it.
- soylentcola 11y agoWith the new X-Files season, I've had an excuse to watch some over the air TV for the first time in a while. Before and during the most recent episode there was a recurring teaser for the local evening news that went something like "the hidden Dark Nets that cyber criminals are using and why they're so difficult to shut down!" The accompanying graphics were things like dark hooded figures in silhouette and images of credit cards being scanned on something resembling a flatbed scanner. The whole thing was a real reminded of why I never watch network news unless there's something very local and "breaking" that's going on in my city.
- dawnbreez 11y agoTo be fair, they do have a thriving market for PayPal accounts and money laundering. DEAR NSA: THE FACT THAT I RESEARCHED THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU GET TO KICK MY DOOR DOWN NOW. THANK YOU.
- deathwarmedover 11y agoReally surprised this article makes no mention of Aaron Swartz and his battle with JSTOR.
- MKolchin 11y agoI use it almost everyday, it's even more convenient to search an article in Google Scholar and then download a paper thorough Sci-Hub, than to use Scopus.com or Web of Knowledge's search engine.
- Touche 11y agoDo you get good results? I just tried it out and it most of the articles didn't work. I'm hoping it's just because of a traffic spike.
- MKolchin 11y agoDo you search by article name or DOI or link? I prefer DOI, because, I guess, it easier for the engine to find a paper. In 95% cases I find a needed paper by DOI.
- 0x4a42 11y agoWhat DOI means?
- Kristine1975 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier A digital object identifier (DOI) is a serial code used to uniquely identify objects. The DOI system is particularly used for electronic documents such as journal articles.
- crazzzyraccoon 11y agoWhy are the academics forced to publish their papers through these paywalls? Hosting a PDF on the university website seems cheeper than going through these publishers. Are these university imposed rules? Are they forced to go through these publishers if they want their paper peer reviewed and published in journals?
- earl_gray 11y agoThis was my immediate question. If the "faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all for free", and then are forced to "buy back the fruits of [their] labour at outrageous prices", why do academic institutions even bother paying money to these companies? If the refereeing is being done for free, naively it surprises me that universities haven't just set up an independent organisation to do peer reviewing.
- friendzis 11y agoTo put it short: Academic "weight" works much like google - the more citations paper has, the higher it is ranked. Of course a citation from local university journal (probably every university has at least one) is worth much, much less than a citation from Nature. It is calculated from Impact Factor, that is in turn calculated from number of citations. Sort of a closed loop. This would not be too much of a problem if not for funding. You see, funding, that is necessary for anything non-trivial, is usually awarded according to researcher's reputation - something again based on impact, citations, etc.
- Estragon 11y agoHas anyone successfully found something useful which they couldn't find elsewhere using this tool? I tried it on a few things yesterday and was disappointed.
- gwern 11y agoI would say easily a third the time I need a paper, I'll have to get it through Libgen, and especially if a paper is new or published through Elsevier or Nature. (If you've read through my comments and noticed me posting Dropbox links to fulltext PDFs - Libgen in action.) It's also good for older papers pre-2000 where it's unlikely the author has put up a copy or someone else has hosted it, and finally, it's good for getting finalized copies of papers as published since preprints often change quite a bit (economics papers in particular seem to spend years hanging around going through many versions which can change conclusions dramatically).
- pinewurst 11y agoYes, I can read IEEE Annals of the History of Computer papers with it! Subscriptions are extremely expensive plus I despise the IEEE enough for previous conduct that I'd rather not pay them.
- yk 11y agoSomehow I believe that thing could have an awesome forum. (But alas, it does not have one.)
- kefka 11y agoI find the way TOR is used lacking. I really would like to have .Onion resolution across my whole system (in my case, I extensively use Linux). So, Here's a way to do just that: I use a significant amount of HiddenServices to communicate back and forth with my machines. My eventual goal was to be able to process data from different geographical areas and have them inserted into MQTT via Node-Red. Until now, it was all or nothing with regards to proxy settings. I have figured that out. For those that want to integrate seamless .onion usage across the whole of Node-Red (and every other Linux program), follow this. get the following packages (Ubuntu, Debian) sudo apt-get install tor iptables dnsmasq dnsutils Add the following to the /etc/tor/torrc file VirtualAddrNetworkIPv4 10.192.0.0/10 AutomapHostsOnResolve 1 TransPort 9040 DNSPort 53 DNSListenAddress 127.0.0.2 Restart TOR sudo service tor restart Edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add the following: listen-address=127.0.0.1 resolv-file=/etc/realresolv.conf server=/onion/127.0.0.2 Make a new file, called /etc/realresolv.conf . Add this in the file: nameserver 107.170.95.180 nameserver 8.8.8.8 Restart DNSmasq: sudo service dnsmasq restart Run the IPtables firewall update for redirection sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d 10.192.0.0/10 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9040 Also, this script must be run at every boot, so add this in /etc/rc.local, ABOVE the "exit 0" /sbin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d 10.192.0.0/10 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9040 Once you do those things, your whole Linux sustem will be able to resolve .onion addresses seamlessly, yet leaving alone canonical address schemes. this means that you can talk with a MQTT-out on an .onion, or control remote servers via exec node and SSH. And since you don't have to poke holes through firewalls, networking between Hidden Nodes with Node-Red sitting on top makes IoT sensor capture from remote areas (Work, home, car, hackerspace) very easy. Of course, this does not discuss how to actually add a new hidden service You should think very hard before enabling a service: Make sure there is good authentication on them along with the newest updates. There is no determining origination on these kinds of attacks. cite: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/how-to-access-the-darknet-tor-network-4175553338/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/h... , Have confirmed directions work flawlessly on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, and 15.10 (various flavors of Ubuntu, XUbuntu, KUbuntu)
- RachelF 11y agoThank you, an interesting approach.