And other research indicates one in four British drug users has accessed hidden websites.
Tor's executive director Roger Dingledine also stressed that hidden services websites only account for 2% of total traffic using Tor's anonymising technology: a warning not to confuse websites hiding themselves with individual internet users using Tor to surf the web anonymously.
Rather than hiding censored websites behind a generic 403 error – "the server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it" – these websites would return 451 – "Unavailable For Legal Reasons".
Tracking tools are hidden on websites and run mainly in the background in order to create unique profiles for users, which are often sold to advertising or targeting companies.
The first is Tor, software that bounces data around the world untraceably, thereby making it possible to hide where a website's servers are.
To prepare myself for the trash of TMZ, I spend some time investigating the places celebrities used to hide, before the website exploded over America, its cameras worming into every hospital, car park and toilet stall.
The diesel farmers themselves tend to hide behind obscure websites containing little information.
The main dump is hosted on a Tor "hidden service" – a website which can only be accessed through the anonymous browser.
Since I referred it for audit, the slogan has been hidden from the website and there's no navigation to it.
You see, the plugin accesses and runs a file hidden on a website called utils.cdneurope.com.
