"Therein lays an ancient truism of security: obscurity doesn't help," security researcher Alec Muffett, who has developed Tor-focused projects, told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message.Īnd ultimately, the list dispels the most pervasive dark web myth of them all: that if you keep visiting enough cryptic links, you're going to find some untold secret. "Compiling a list of onion services is pointless because most are online 12 hours of the day for a week and then disappear," Traudt continued, adding that trying to make longer lists is going to end up containing more junk, and not more interesting content.Īnother point is it does highlight that, even though the list is enormous, hidden services are discoverable. But with that being said, there are a few takeaways. They aren't wrong," Traudt told Motherboard in an email. "People may think it is a stupid, pointless website. Indeed, Traudt said he put it together in an afternoon last weekend. Of course, readers probably shouldn't take this list all that seriously. Motherboard did not confirm how many of those are currently online. In all, the list includes 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176, or one septillion, two hundred eight sextillion, nine hundred twenty-five quintillion, eight hundred nineteen quadrillion, six hundred fourteen trillion, six hundred twenty-nine billion, one hundred seventy-four million, seven hundred six thousand, and one hundred seventy-six hidden service addresses.
Just to be clear, the site doesn't only list onion addresses that actually correspond to a currently up and running service, but also those that don't-at least at the moment-lead to a functioning site.īut obviously the vast, vast majority of addresses on the site do just look like a random series of letters and numbers and don't have any content behind them.
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