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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by dejaime on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:19PM (#18505716)
That 30% is clearly a gross estimation, and certainly a wrong one with no data to back it up. Still, even though it is definitely counter productive to host on a widely known host, it still does not expose any users, and that is the main point, not really protecting the host.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by thomasdd on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:35PM (#18507697)
Here is the Data: https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/9yfwfb/my_personal_...

About 7000 .onion sites worked before, about 3100 after...

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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by dejaime on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:31AM (#18508073)
Exactly, all they have is some questionable data about onion links. Onion links is one way of using deep web, one of many.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by Drdrdrq on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:52PM (#18505984)
Genuinly curious: if you don't protect the host, how can you protect the users? Host has the power to change any content, including BTC addresses, text,...
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by dmurray on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:49PM (#18506968)
Not if the content is cryptographically signed by the author, so at least some content can be served safely. I'm not sure if it's possible to have a dynamically generated website that encrypts or signs all content without having the signing key accessible to the host, though.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by pathseeker on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:30PM (#18506262)
In this case: protecting the users == hiding their origin
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by jstanley on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:22PM (#18506221)
The hoster certainly has the power to scam people, but he doesn't have the power to deanonymise them.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by mirimir on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:30PM (#18507149)
He does, if he drops phone-home malware. As the FBI has done, at least twice.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by sandworm101 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:46AM (#18508123)
That in turn only works where the users havent taken additional steps beyond Tor. Tor was never meant to solve every problem.
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