The Tor anonymity network allows users to protect their privacy and circumvent censorship restrictions but also shields those distributing child abuse content, selling or buying illicit drugs, or sharing malware online. Using data collected from Tor entry nodes, we provide an estimation of the proportion of Tor network users that likely employ the network in putatively good or bad ways. Overall, on an average country/day, ∼6.7% of Tor network users connect to Onion/Hidden Services that are disproportionately used for illicit purposes. We also show that the likely balance of beneficial and malicious use of Tor is unevenly spread globally and systematically varies based upon a country’s political conditions. In particular, using Freedom House’s coding and terminological classifications, the proportion of often illicit Onion/Hidden Services use is more prevalent (∼7.8%) in “free” countries than in either “partially free” (∼6.7%) or “not free” regimes (∼4.8%).

Tor匿名网络使用户可以保护自己的隐私并绕过审查限制，但也可以屏蔽那些散布虐待儿童内容，买卖毒品或在线共享恶意软件的用户。使用从Tor入口节点收集的数据，我们估计可能以假定的好坏方式使用网络的Tor网络用户的比例。总体而言，在平均每天的国家/地区中，约有6.7％的Tor网络用户连接到过多用于非法目的的洋葱/隐藏服务。我们还表明，Tor的有益和恶意使用之间的可能平衡在全球范围内分布不均，并且会根据一个国家的政治状况而系统地变化。特别是使用Freedom House的编码和术语分类，