Into the Shadows - A Layman's Guide to Dark Web Sites
When it comes to the internet, there is the surface web and then there is the dark web. The latter is a part of the internet that is inaccessible to web crawlers and search engines and consists of sites dedicated to illegal content, activities and goods. The dark web sites is also where many of the most gruesome and horrific examples of humanity?s darker side surface, such as websites that feature videos of abuse of children, animals and war prisoners. The dark web sites is accessible by using the Tor network, a software package developed in the 1990s by researchers at the United States Naval Research Laboratory and later released under an open source license as part of the Tor project. The software works to obscure users? online activity by routing their computer traffic through multiple relay nodes? around the world. When used with Tor and other privacy extensions, it is possible to stay almost completely anonymous while browsing the internet. This has made the dark web sites attrac...