12/27/2022 0 Comments Whole internet icebergThat’s when browsers such as TOR became popular: they allowed surfers to browse in all anonymity. People protesting against an absolutist regime were looking for means to communicate with the outside world without getting caught by the regime. Ironically, criminal activities were not the original purpose when the first ‘dark’ pages were created. The very popular TOR browser builds on this imagery: it is an abbreviation of The Onion Router. Why onion? Because the actual message and the location of a message sender is hidden behind several layers of encryption, which makes it hard to intercept and decrypt it for outsiders. onion, which can be considered the dark web equivalent of our. The dark web is nowadays closely linked to activities that don’t want to see the light of day: arms dealing, counterfeit, child pornography. the underwater part of an iceberg, indeed. We call this invisible part the ‘deep web’, with part of it being the ’dark web’. Underneath is an invisible part, which forms the majority of the internet sites worldwide. What we can see is only a minor part of the total internet. Have you ever thought of the internet as an iceberg? There are some good reasons to do so. By Olivier Bertrand, Presales Engineer at Trend Micro.
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