Eighty Percent of Web Traffic on the "Deepweb" 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% of Deepweb Traffic was Landing at Websites Providing Content Containing Some Sort of Sexual Abuse of Children.
To Conduct the Study, Researchers Placed 40 Computers onto Tor's Network as Relay Machines (the Anonymizing Service Relies on Volunteer's Computers Moving Encrypted Traffic Around). The Team then Used Web-Crawling Software to Categorize the (Approximately) 45,000 Services that were Using Tor's Hidden Services (which is Distinct from the Tor Anonymizing Network that Stops Websites from Tracking your Identity) at the Time. Data from their Relays Provided the Insight into Where Traffic was Going, after Discounting Automated "Botnet" Activity (usually Relating to Malware, Viruses and so on). This Data was Presented at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg, Germany and you Can Watch the Presentation itself in the Video below. To further Illustrate How Out of Whack the Numbers are, it's Estimated that, the Number of Sites -- like Silkroad -- Selling Contraband, Constitute about a Quarter of All Hidden Services. Child Abuse Sites ? Just 2%.
This Imbalance Could be Tough Love for those Who Defend Services like Tor for its Legitimate Uses (Privacy and Security). Though there are Unsurprisingly Suggestions that, the Data is Open to Interpretation and that Web Use / Behavior Patterns Need to be Factored in (Daily Visits over Monthly Purchases, etc.). Also, it's Possible that, the Traffic to such Sites, Might Not Always Result from an Actual "Consumer". Law Enforcement will be Investigating such Websites and there's the Possibility Some of the Traffic is a Noble Attempt to Knock them Offline through Denial of Service (though it's Not Clear if this would Have been Ignored by the Study's Botnet Profiles). There's also an Argument that Some Services are Short Lived on the Deepweb so, the Study May just be Revealing that Abusive Sites are More Persistent.
Info Sources:
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-relate-pedophilia-study-finds
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/31/dark-web-traffic-child-abuse-sites
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/some-thoughts-hidden-services
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-80-percent-percent-1-2-percent-abusive
https://ghowen.me/darknet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oTEoLB-ses
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