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Ask HN: Where can I find archived dark web content?
I'm conducting a research project and specifically interested in archived hacker forum discussions of exploits.
- syntheticcorp 6y agoMaybe have a look in Gwern’s dark net market archives , they may have some hacker forums included. https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives https://www.gwern.net/DNM-archives
- halturing 6y agoThanks this is helpful. It's limited to 2013-2015 but links to the following U of Arizona study which references an archive of IRC channels between 09/2016 and 01/2018: https://www.gwern.net/docs/sr/2018-du.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/sr/2018-du.pdf
- aaron695 6y agoHackers only hang out on the Dark Web in movies. They are barely even on the Deep Web.
- halturing 6y agoSo I take it your view is that it would be very difficult - if not impossible - to ever archive most communications of blackhats regarding exploits?
- aaron695 6y agoThe opposite. I'm saying they are on the open web. Their sites are indexed by Google. But there is a Survivor bias. All the article you read are going to concentrate on easy to access material. So how much is deep web is hard to guess. But I haven't heard of much on the Dark Web.