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Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people? The study I linked had the proportion of hidden service visits to paedophile sites at around 80% of

Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people? The study I linked had the proportion of hidden service visits to paedophile sites at around 80% of the total. It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node.

Pooge 5y ago
> Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people? This is a good point, but more on that below. > It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node. No, because even according to the article they are not even confident in their results. From DDoS attacks to law enforcement visiting those websites, it is impossible to assess. > "We do not know the cause of the high hit count [to child abuse sites] and cannot say with any certainty that it corresponds with humans," Owen admitted in a response to the Tor Project shared with WIRED, adding that "caution is advised" when drawing conclusions about the study's results. Human rights activists around the globe are relying on such infrastructure to have a safer way to communicate with the outside world and denounce actions of their governments. They are by far not the people who would click on the most hidden services, so they will be under-represented on such studies. Sure encryption is used for unlawful behavior, but if you ban encryption and/or Tor, you will just hurt the people that need it the most while criminals will just find an alternative.
thetrip 5y ago
Are photos and videos like more large than text? Like 90%? This is Coriolanus http://shakespeare.mit.edu/coriolanus/full.html http://shakespeare.mit.edu/coriolanus/full.html 317.9 KiB (325,563 bytes). This is HB frontage https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hbz030122wellpieterhugo-01-1646081304.jpg https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images... 1.2 MiB (1,217,366 bytes). Yeah 77%.
thrill 5y ago
I think you asking the question wrong. It's "are the vast majority of people who are stabbed done so with a knife?".

Pooge 5y ago

> Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people? This is a good point, but more on that below. > It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node. No, because even according to the article they are not even confident in their results. From DDoS attacks to law enforcement visiting those websites, it is impossible to assess. > "We do not know the cause of the high hit count [to child abuse sites] and cannot say with any certainty that it corresponds with humans," Owen admitted in a response to the Tor Project shared with WIRED, adding that "caution is advised" when drawing conclusions about the study's results. Human rights activists around the globe are relying on such infrastructure to have a safer way to communicate with the outside world and denounce actions of their governments. They are by far not the people who would click on the most hidden services, so they will be under-represented on such studies. Sure encryption is used for unlawful behavior, but if you ban encryption and/or Tor, you will just hurt the people that need it the most while criminals will just find an alternative.

thetrip 5y ago

Are photos and videos like more large than text? Like 90%? This is Coriolanus http://shakespeare.mit.edu/coriolanus/full.html http://shakespeare.mit.edu/coriolanus/full.html 317.9 KiB (325,563 bytes). This is HB frontage https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hbz030122wellpieterhugo-01-1646081304.jpg https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images... 1.2 MiB (1,217,366 bytes). Yeah 77%.

thrill 5y ago

I think you asking the question wrong. It's "are the vast majority of people who are stabbed done so with a knife?".