[Cryptography] Are Tor hidden services really hidden?

[grarpamp]

> On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Underestimating ... seems to be a habit of these people.
> there are more markets on the list of 'failed/scam' sites than are operating

Drugs usually do that to you. Also keep in mind that there are no confirmed
on the record cases to date of a Tor 'break/weakness' having been used to
find a user. It appears to be only user error.

> One lesson from the Users Get Routed paper

This is one of the three recent and related papers to read, the curious
can find them linked on the Tor blog. They don't really involve crypto,
just network analysis.