Ahmia is a clearnet search engine for Tor's hidden services created by Jacob Parra
| URL | ahmia juhanurmihxlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2epvl5ankdibsot4csyd.onion  (Accessing link help) |
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Overview
editDeveloped during the 2014 Google Summer of Code with support from the Tor Project, the open source[1] search engine was initially built in Django and PostgreSQL. It indexes .onion URLs from the Tor network, excluding those containing a robots.txt file.[2] The search engine also filters out secret files of the Afghanistan war along with activities such as drug trafficking and arms trafficking.[3]
The service partners with GlobaLeaks's submissions and Tor2web statistics for hidden service discovery[4] and as of July 2015 has indexed about 5000 sites.[5] Ahmia is also affiliated with Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Rights, an organization that promotes transparency and freedom-enabling technologies.[6]
In July 2015 the site published a list of hundreds of fraudulent clones of web pages (including such sites as DuckDuckGo, as well a dark web page).[7][8] According to Nurmi, "someone runs a fake site on a similar address to the original one and tries to fool people with that" with the intent of scamming people (e.g. gathering bitcoin money by spoofing bitcoin addresses).[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Greif, Björn (14 July 2015). "Gefälschte .onion-Websites spähen Tor-Nutzer aus" (in German). ZDNet. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ^ "Google Can't Search the Deep Web, So How Do Deep Web Search Engines Work?: Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^ Messier, Ric (2017-07-14). Network Forensics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119329183.
- ^ "About us". Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Leyden, John (7 Jul 2015). "Heart of Darkness: Mass of clone scam sites appear". The Register. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "The new search engines shining a light on the Deep Web". The Kernel. 2014-09-28. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^ MacGregor, Alice (1 July 2015). "Hundreds of Dark Web mirror sites 'booby-trapping' Tor users". Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Marwan, Peter (14 July 2015). "Anonymität von TOR-Nutzern durch Fake-Websites gefährdet" (in German). ITespresso. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ^ Weissman, Cale Guthrie (July 2, 2015). "Someone is creating fake websites on the dark web to try to lure in and hack people". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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