"It's representative, but definitely not exhaustive," added Haase. And some can be hidden, even from computer scientists who've contracted with the U.S. onion domains don't go to a webpage, but to file or chat servers. The map should provide a comprehensive view of the dark web, even if it doesn't give the entire picture.
"Two sites can be 'similar' in terms of HTML structure but contain totally different content." "The layout algorithm tries to put sites that are similar to each other close together on the map and tries to move dissimilar sites out of the way, which causes groups of similar pages to move towards each other and form into clusters," Haase explained to Forbes over encrypted chat. That similarity is based on the structure of the website's code. They're bunched together thanks to a "similarity algorithm" that assigns each page a score between 0.0 and 1.0. Users will note the clusters of different sites.
Haase then manually redacted any screenshots that appeared to contain illegal content, going by U.S. About 6,600 sites responded, whilst the other 53,000 either timed out or returned errors. He wrote a script that downloaded the home page for each and took a screenshot. Haas started with a list of 60,000 Tor addresses, also known as onions because of their. As Forbes has previously reported, the aim of MEMEX was to create simple search engines for the dark web and had proven useful for cops investigating human trafficking.īut the digital cartography was entirely self-funded, explained Mark Haase, computer scientist at Hyperion Gray and the man behind the map. The map was partly based on an experiment carried out with the MEMEX project at Darpa, the research arm of the Pentagon. "I should add that I use Tor daily for many reasons, and hidden services shouldn't be taken as the core of what the Tor project is and does." Caceres also donates to the Tor Project. While we didn't put out this research to take a side on the debate about hidden services, it's not something that can be ignored either - there's a lot of shitty stuff out there. "But the data clearly indicates that this is at the very least a double-edged sword.
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