Tor security advisory: someone deanonymized hidden services (early 2014)

Sounds like Tor needs more donations:

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate

I think they already said a while ago that "hidden services" are not a well researched feature of the Tor network, and the Tor Project is generally strapped for cash as it is.

"Someone" is now arresting dozens of dark web black market operators too.

You mean Europol?

Conversation from 3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107193

I am doing about 2 terabytes of relay traffic monthly on some cheap 15€/month server that serves my various other projects. It's fun and feels good. Takes minutes to set up. Join us! :)

Same here & have done this for years. I never come anywhere close to using the resources, myself, that even these cheap accounts provide. It feels good to donate the remainder to a noble cause. The Tor folks once sent me a lovely T-shirt for my contributions. Or Somebody did, maybe it was the No Such Agency's way of tagging me.