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The dark web...

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I have read that a big part of the dark web.. are just company intranets and private websites for their internal workings.

the bad stuff.. are out there.. but it is only a small corner of the dark web. right?
 
Hmm I don't know... But very interesting when I heard about it some time ago.

So wondering how much other people know about it since it seems to have it's own market place.

I wonder..... if some one was let's say oh I dunno... Looking for a new heart or 2.... aaaand... they were clueless as to know where to find a human heart for extra body parts... do you think this would be for sale on the dark web?

I always wanted a new kidney! :D
 
Slug said:
I wouldn't bank on it. The TOR browser, for example, originated in the US Naval Research Lab and was further developed/refined by DARPA in the 1990s. ;)
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I've read about this from various sources and there's not much to dispute about it, after all it's something that's documented history. But I contend that development in the Tor environment has been pretty active since it's beginnings and it's not the same as it once was. It's under a BSD license so it's not like closed source proprietary code, the source code can be examined and vetted to check for things like back doors. I'm not saying there aren't any but if our military or government did have the ability to just tap into a Tor network whenever they found it necessary at this point they would have.

Protest movements overseas rely heavily on Tor to maintain communication with each other and to let the rest of the world get news that some governments would rather keep private. More extreme governments often execute citizens in physical confrontations, but there haven't been any mass seizures and executions of online whistle-blowers -- If those governments did have some kind of 'secret' backdoor in Tor networks it doesn't seem likely they would ignore that ability. Here in America we our judicial system and law enforcement view conservative protests like the Tea Party movement to simply be gatherings of free speech while progressive movements like Occupy Wallstreet are subversive, terrorist activity. While there were countless arrests by law enforcement in physical confrontations in the streets, there were no mass seizures by those communicating online via secure connections. If you saw the Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, when director Laura Poitras was gathering information to make her movie and was communicating with Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, one of the secure ways they exchanged info was via Tor. Seeing as there were and are several departments in Washington D.C., including the White House, that have a deep, deep hatred for Snowden, if Tor does have back doors in it, why don't they ever use them?
 
Possibly they don't do anything that would give away the existence of back doors for 3-letter government agencies. Because if they did, the Bad Guys would communicate other ways,

But...that's just my paranoid side rambling...
 
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