"Militants and extremists don't seem to find the Tor hidden services infrastructure very useful. The study found a "near-absence" of Islamic extremist sites on Tor. The sites included marketplaces for drugs, fire arms and weapons, and explicit, illegal pornography. Users in countries with strict censorship laws, like China or Iran, can use it to access mainstream sites - like Facebook - securely. Rid and Moore found that the vast majority of material on Tor was not just illegal in places like China or Iran, but in more liberal jurisdictions too. Tor offers anonymous browsing to people across the world. Notably, they did not look at the traffic patterns on Tor. "Other studies put that figure even higher, but we applied a very conservative classification." "More than 50 per cent of what's hosted there is illegal and illegitimate," said Rid. It found 5,205 live websites, and managed to classify the content of 2,723 of those.Īfter categorising the content, Rid and Moore found 1,547 of the sites contained illicit and illegal material.
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