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The Dark Web as You Know It Is a Myth https://www.wired.com/2015/06/dark-web-know-myth/
What we call the dark web is tiny. In short, the number of people visiting the dark web is a fraction of overall Tor users, the majority of whom are likely just using it to protect their regular browsing habits.
Of course, there is a technological space called the dark web, where the servers of websites are hidden behind a veil of cryptography, and users also enjoy strong anonymity protections. But that space is nothing like the fairy tale that has been concocted around it; that of a colossal ocean of digital stores selling exclusive products, where criminals are free from prosecution. That characterization is not true.
The NSA is trying to crack Tor. The State Department is helping pay for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/05/the-nsa-is-trying-to-crack-tor-the-state-department-is-helping-pay-for-it/
While the NSA is working around the clock to undermine Tor's anonymity, other branches of the federal government are helping fund that same service.
Tor is a service that lets people surf the Internet anonymously.
Everything you need to know about the NSA and Tor in one FAQ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nsa-and-tor-in-one-faq/
What's Tor? Tor originally stood for The Onion Router. It's a worldwide network of servers designed to help users browse the Web anonymously, along with software to access the network.
The open-source software was developed 11 years ago with funding from the U.S. military, but no single person or organization controls the network as a whole.
That sounds really complicated. Can ordinary users use it?
To make the system easier to use, the Tor project provides the Tor Browser Bundle. That's a version of the Firefox Web browser that's been pre-configured to send all of its traffic through the Tor network. So to anonymize your traffic, all you do is download the Tor version of Firefox and use it like you would an ordinary Web browser. No special configuration or technical knowledge is required.
How Tor and Signal can maintain the fight for freedom in Trump’s America https://www.cyberscoop.com/tor-signal-funding-donald-trump-steve-bannon-encryption/
Tor was developed by the U.S. Navy beginning in the 1990s and has since, as an independent nonprofit, received more than 90 percent of its funding from American government sources including organizations under the BBG. Tor has quietly played a role in several crucial historical moments during the new century — WikiLeaks was founded with documents intercepted over Tor, Edward Snowden used Tor to leak classified NSA documents to the press, global journalists increasingly rely on Tor to communicate with sources — and the technology aids dissidents and activists around the world.
WikiLeaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor https://www.wired.com/2010/06/wikileaks-documents/
In mid-October, the Tor Project had an opportunity to interview Edward Snowden https://blog.torproject.org/blog/what-tor-supporter-looks-edward-snowden
ES: Without Tor, the streets of the Internet become like the streets of a very heavily surveilled city. There are surveillance cameras everywhere, and if the adversary simply takes enough time, they can follow the tapes back and see everything you've done.
With Tor, we have private spaces and private lives, where we can choose who we want to associate with and how, without the fear of what that is going to look like if it is abused.
What the Tor network allows is what's called a mixed routing experience where, due to a voluntary cooperation of peers around the Internet – around the world, across borders, across jurisdictions – you get individuals who are able to share traffic in ways that don't require them to be able to read the content of it. So you don't have to trust every participant of the Tor network to know who you are and what you're looking for.
End Of The Silk Road: FBI Says It's Busted The Web's Biggest Anonymous Drug Black Market https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/02/end-of-the-silk-road-fbi-busts-the-webs-biggest-anonymous-drug-black-market/
The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf
Here's more on the history of that document:
Can digital rights management technology stop the unauthorized spread of copyrighted content?
Ten years ago this month, four engineers argued that it can't, forever changing how the world thinks about piracy. Their paper, “The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution” was presented at a security conference in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2002.
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