
Then a rationale on why we will stop maintaining FreshOnion TorScraper will be presented before concluding with my thoughts on the Darknet.ĭrugs, Guns, fake documents, etc. This blog post is all about my journey in analyzing Darknet data: what I found, how surprised I was and what I believe is going on. Is it possible to find more than that? With this analysis, it is possible to have a glimpse of what the Darknet is made of. Most people probably have the same general idea about it: It is full of illegal things like drugs, weapons, fake documents, and hitmen. Every time I did, it was always that same question: What is the Darknet made of?


Once the project was dockerized, I started analyzing the collected data and it goes without saying that it was the most interesting part of this project.īefore starting my analysis, I tried to put myself in the place of a person that has never gone on the Darknet or that has minimal knowledge about it, and I questioned myself about it. With this upgrade, it makes the tool easier to use by everyone. Due to a few issues, the entirety of the project was dockerized to simplify the installation procedure (~4-8 lines instead of 4 pages of documentation) and to automate the whole scraping process. The GoSecure Torscraper was developed about 1 year ago.

This is the continuity of my first blog post How I Indexed the Darknet and Pastebin During My First University Internship.
