"In the past, adversarial organizations have skipped trying to break Tor hidden services and instead attacked the software running at the server behind the dot onion address. The organization only provides the technology and has nothing to do with or has any control over what people choose to use it for.
Tor was quick to, rightfully, disassociate itself from anything hosted on the network. This prompted both the Tor Project and Mozilla to respond. Law enforcement agents made use of the previously undisclosed vulnerability to take gather information on machines accessing the hidden sites. The feds apparently used a flaw in Firefox 17, which is the current Extended Support Release and serves as the basis of the TOR Browser Bundle, to access the Tor network. Operations like these are hardly new, but this particular one had a few interesting and unique characteristics. The host was taken down by the US government who was targeting a child abuse network hosted by the provider and allegedly run by Eric Eoin Marques, the owner and operator of Freedom Hosting. Tor websites are notoriously difficult to search, owing in part to the lack of a centralized domain name system (DNS) on the Tor network, and the scarcity (and low reliability) of links on reputable websites indexing Tor sites and their reputations.Over the weekend, a large number of hidden service addresses, "websites" only accessible via the Tor network, went down after the shutdown of Freedom Hosting, one of the biggest providers of such services. Tor websites have neither domain names nor IP addresses and hence aren't usually indexed by conventional search engines. TorSearch is an internet search engine that indexes pages to help find content in websites located on the Tor network. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( November 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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