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Study claims over 80 percent of 'deep web' traffic relates to pedophile sites
Eighty percent of web traffic on the "deep web" relates to child pornography, according to a study conducted by the University of Portsmouth, UK. It's no surprise that consumers/providers of illegal material want to hide their tracks. What is surprising is the huge amount of traffic share that pedophile material commands. There are plenty of other illegal activities one might use the darker corners of the internet for (buying drugs, contraband etc.), and of course law-abiding folk that just want the anonymity that services like Tor provide. The University's study, however, indicates that once you account for automated "botnet" traffic, 83 percent of deep web traffic was landing at sites providing content containing some sort of sexual abuse of children.
