Report: Dark web surprisingly small, with less than 30K sites

SC Magazine

Bradley Barth
April 8, 2016

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The dark web is actually much smaller than you think, and the percentage of websites residing there that provide illegal content and services is also over-exaggerated, according to a new report from Intelliagg and Darksum.

The report, “Deeplight: Shining a Light on the Dark Web,” claimed to be the first comprehensive, definitive mapping of the largest dark net, Tor, where hidden websites are not indexed by search engines and content cannot be accessed without specialized encrypted software. This mysterious online frontier, shrouded in secrecy, is surprisingly composed of only about 30,000 websites, each featuring Tor's .onion top-level domain suffix, …

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