[tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

[morristan]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:07:49 +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> I doubt that the Tor Project will ever acknowledge such support. Tor
> developers (or at least policy people) like to pretend that Tor is
> used for purposes that they consider morally right, and ignore the
> uses that are morally wrong [1].

Tor cannot market and state "#1 network of drug cartels worldwide". If 
so, the tor project people will find themselves arrested and the 
scapegoats for the US war on drugs. Canon does not market their cameras 
as "great for child pornography" even though the high-end Canon cameras 
are the #1 camera for child pornos. I suspect the flickr breakdown by 
camera model is just as valid for child pornos as anything else, 
https://secure.flickr.com/cameras/. As a curious side project, I am 
analyzing all of the EXIF info from child pornography to determine which 
cameras are popular. I suspect iphones and canon cameras are well 
represented.

> I actually intend to write a Tor server patch to be able to gather
> .onion access statistics on relays, once I am sufficiently bored, 
> just
> for the fun cognitive dissonance potential (expecting drugs and CP
> forums to top the list).

Please do and publish all of the data you collect. Do not publish just 
the data that matches your suppositions. Torgle and other .onion search 
engines should help you.