Twenty percent of the Dark Net was taken offline last week, when a hacker compromised a server hosting some 10,000 websites on the Tor network. Tor, designed to hide the identities of its users, is widely used on the Dark Web, which serves as a hub for illegal online activities. Visitors to the affected pages were greeted with the message, “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you’ve been hacked.” The attacker reportedly took Freedom Hosting II offline because 50 percent of its sites contained child pornography.
The problem is that this is terribly bias. Do you know who else accesses the deepnet? College professors and students. Do you know WHY?? Because our country has taken internet censorship to such an extreme, that we can barely access any history more than three years back ESPECIALLY if it has to do with political affairs. There is a RAMPANT control over information access in this country by our government and so in order to access real or relevant history/data not accessible by our internet, we have to resort to these measures. It isn't just crooks who use it. Law abiding police officers, teachers, students, doctors, lawyers, and many many honorable professions utilize the access of the deep Web. Articles like this DO attempt to put a stop to the nasty and inhumane activity that goes on in the world and this is desperately needed to bring awareness for those who are victimized by these criminals, however you are forgetting to mention how valuable access to real information is to many people and increasing the demonization of the deep net is not helpful. Talk about the crooks and pedophiles, eliminate them and their websites PLEASE, but don't forget to mention how valuable it is to law abiding citizens who want free information. Thank you for your time.
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Anonymous Hacker Pulls Plug on Thousands of Dark Net Sites
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 7, 2017 11:15 AMTwenty percent of the Dark Net was taken offline last week, when a hacker compromised a server hosting some 10,000 websites on the Tor network. Tor, designed to hide the identities of its users, is widely used on the Dark Web, which serves as a hub for illegal online activities. Visitors to the affected pages were greeted with the message, “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you’ve been hacked.” The attacker reportedly took Freedom Hosting II offline because 50 percent of its sites contained child pornography.