Still, some might push him: even if it’s a small part of its use, if the crimes are heinous enough (trafficking in drugs, child porn or worse), does it matter? There’s a cost for any great good, he said. “It’s nonsense that there are 99 other internets you can’t access.” “But onion services basically don’t exist,” said Dingledine, speaking at the Philly Tech Week Dev Talks this month. It’s these hidden, or “onion,” services that have come to define for many in law enforcement the broader use of “onion services” that gave rise to the Tor Project, including its name ( The Onion Router, get it?). MIT-trained and “sometimes” based in the region, Dingledine says there’s really no practical use for the phrase “dark web.” The phrase is usually meant to describe some untraceable online black market (think the Silk Road), thanks to Tor-style software.īut, Dingledine says that, at any given time, no more than one to three percent of the Tor network load comes from so-called “hidden services,” those that use the public internet but require special software to access. “Somebody needs to flip the darn iceberg.” “Every time the media does a story about the dark web, they show the picture of the iceberg” to imply sinister elements make up most of web traffic hidden beneath the water line, Dingledine said. He’s the ponytailed and prominent cofounder of the Tor Project, the nonprofit behind the eponymous widespread anonymous communications software. And, he adds, stop paying attention when someone uses that damn iceberg metaphor. Stop talking about the dark web, if only for Roger Dingledine’s sake.
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