[tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"

[Mirimir]

On 11/15/2014 03:25 AM, Virgil Griffith wrote:
> If an expensive marketing company were trying to come up with a term to
> describe more anonymous networks such as .onion, even though "dark net"
> certainly fits, they would probably discourage it because of the reasons
> previously mentioned.
> 
> I don't like "deep web", and I think we can do better than "dark net".  I'll
> accept whatever the TOR leadership tells me to use.  Perhaps something with
> more neutral connotations, something less "veiled net", "incog net" / "
> icognet", or "shielded net".
> 
> -V

How about "ornet" and/or "orweb"?

> On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Katya Titov <kattitov at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
>> Paolo Cardullo:
>>> This was an interesting discussion.
>>>
>>> I was just thinking of starting a thread on why people use the
>>> appellative 'dark' as for 'dark net'. I found it quite disturbing and
>>> offensive, also in a racialised way.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I strongly disagree and I suggest to drop 'dark' from TOR services.
>>> Funny enough, only the day after the chief of London MET declared:
>>> 'internet has become a “dark and ungoverned” space populated by
>>> paedophiles, murderers and terrorists'. This also can be seen with a
>>> shade of racism.
>>
>> I opened a lengthy discussion about this in January:
>>
>>
>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-January/thread.html#31863
>>
>> No real outcome.
>>
>> The name is what it is, and I think it's stuck.
>>
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>> kat
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