Discovering the Dark Web
For all the amazing technological innovations in the anonymity and privacy space, there is always a constant threat that has no effective technological patch - human error.
Whether it is operational security leaks or software misconfiguration - most often attacks on anonymity don't come from breaking the underlying systems, but from ourselves.
OnionScan has two primary goals:
- We want to help operators of hidden services find and fix operational security issues with their services. We want to help them detect misconfigurations and we want to inspire a new generation of anonymity engineering projects to help make the world a more private place.
- Secondly we want to help researchers and investigators monitor and track Dark Web sites. In fact we want to make this as easy as possible. Not because we agree with the goals and motives of every investigation force out there - most often we don't. But by making these kinds of investigations easy, we hope to create a powerful incentive for new anonymity technology (see goal #1)
OnionScan Reports
![OnionScan Report: Freedom Hosting II, A New Map and a New Direction.](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2017/03/Screenshot---030117---08-52-25-1.png)
![OnionScan Report: Reconstructing the Finances of Darknet Markets through Reputation Systems](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2017/01/total_reviews_by_month_hansa-1.png)
![OnionScan Report: This One Weird Trick Can Reveal Information from 25% of the Dark Web](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/10/onionscan-transitive.png)
![OnionScan Report: September 2016 - Uptime, Downtime and Freedom Hosting II](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/10/onionscan-transitive.png)
![OnionScan Report: August 2016 - Revisiting CARONTE; Analytics, Bitcoins and Correlations](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/09/darkweb.png)
![OnionScan Report: July 2016 - HTTPS Somewhere Sometimes](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/08/cert-cover.png)
![OnionScan Report June 2016 - Snapshots of the Dark Web](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/07/onionscan-transitive-4.png)
![OnionScan Report: May 2016 - Technologies used by Onion Services](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/07/onionscan-transitive-13.png)
![OnionScan Report: April 2016 - The Tor Network: Security and Crime](https://mascherari.press/content/images/2016/07/onionscan-transitive-12.png)
Supporters & Contributors
The hosting of this site and all OnionScan Infrastructure is generously supported by our patrons. If you would like to support OnionScan research and development you can do so at Patreon - Backers get access to exclusive reports and pre-releases of research. We would like to say a big thank you to:- Zaki Manian
- Dan Ballard
- CJ
- Lennie Budgell
- Joshua Opolko
- Dave Warren
- MOVRCX X64 EDITION
- Mikey
- gnujedi
- Jack Grigg
- All backers who have chosen to support anonymously
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