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Very interesting. If the dark web becomes popular though, won't the same people try to regulate it? They could make .onion link illegal for ISPs to load and k
by nkkollaw 8y ago
Very interesting.
If the dark web becomes popular though, won't the same people try to regulate it?
They could make .onion link illegal for ISPs to load and kill it overnight.
- TomMarius 8y agoIsn't one of the main points of Tor that other than by knowing that an IP is an exit node, no one is able to tell you're using it? And .onion resolution is entirely client side, no?
- majewsky 8y agoThe ISP can see your traffic going towards entry nodes if I'm not mistaken.
- tgragnato 8y agoTLDR: You can use pluggable transports. It's super difficult to build a low latency mix-net that covertly works inside an adversarial network. In addition to the current models over which onion/garlic routing are based upon you would (at least) need to add to the core of your software traffic obfuscation, a series of covert channels, NAT bypass, ... Tor and other mix networks simplify the problem assuming that there's a portion of the Internet that is free and introducing censorship circumvention mechanisms. Of course, the assumption is increasingly untrue.
- mimimi31 8y agoThat's actually already been proposed in Germany. The parliamentary state secretary of the interior ministry just last month said: "People who use the darknet usually are up to no good. This simple realization should be reflected in our legal system." and "I understand why the darknet can be useful in autocratic systems. But in a free and open democracy, in my opinion, there is no legitimate use."
- johnzim 8y agoThe irony is quite delicious.
- a1369209993 8y agoReally? Tastes bitter and a tad coppery to me.
- bitL 8y agoI use Tor + VPN just to read Reddit these days :D
- mirimir 8y agoISPs never see .onion URLs. They just see encrypted traffic to and among Tor relays. But yes, they could block that. In this case, it helps if the evil US military actually does use Tor :)