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If anyone's not aware of what dark.fail and darknetlive are: They index the onion addresses of hidden services, mostly dark net markets (à la Silk Road). These
by opheliate 5y ago
If anyone's not aware of what dark.fail and darknetlive are: They index the onion addresses of hidden services, mostly dark net markets (à la Silk Road). These are useful as the onion URLs can be difficult to discover/memorise, and best security practices when using them involve using a clean OS each time you connect, so bookmarking is not always trivial. dark.fail especially has built up a reputation for keeping correct and up-to-date links, so many people just trust that the links listed there are correct without checking. A compromise of such an index could allow scammers to easily phish customers of these markets, or law enforcement to harvest customer details.
Edit: Looking further into this, Darknetlive is apparently already serving phishing links according to a signed statement from its operators. I would imagine quite a few people will be caught out by this.