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Tor Market is now the longest-running English-language market for illegal drugs on the dark web. But its success and profile may contain the seeds of its own downfall.
One study found 80% of darknet traffic on Tor went to sites hosting unmoderated porn and child sex abuse material.
Before you download antivirus and ad-blocker apps, do your due diligence on what personal information they want to access. Here are some tips on what to look out for.
The case for all things Tor.
Without proper checks, police could have significantly expanded scope to search homes and computers around the world.
The Behind the Screen: Online Child Exploitation in Australia report provides an alarming snapshot of a growing crime.
The Tor Project is upgrading its protections for internet users’ privacy and anonymity. A scholar and volunteer member of the nonprofit effort explains what’s changing and why.
The deep and dark web can be a scary place, but modern open-source technologies funded by the Defense Department can help explore it.
Ransomware – which encrypts your files and offers to sell you the key – operates differently from other malicious software. Those differences turn out to give potential victims a fighting chance.
Developing tools to weed out would-be attackers from the world’s most-used privacy and anonymity system.
If a computer search would qualify for a warrant if its whereabouts were known, why should simply hiding its location make it legally unsearchable?
Cyber security is now a priority for the government, with $230 million committed to its new Cyber Security Strategy. But is it enough?
The battle between personal privacy and national security online continues.
Banning encryption won’t help, and probably isn’t possible anyway.
With attacks against Tor increasing, prototype anonymising software Vuvuzela takes a different approach.
University researchers broke Tor, briefly, to bring down Silk Road 2.0, and this matters.
There’s a dark side of the internet, where almost anything goes, or can be bought for the right price.
With each new revelation of the scope of the American National Security Agency’s spying, perceptions of the importance of privacy are hardening around the world. Systematic monitoring of the world’s communications…
The US National Security Agency and the UK’s GCHQ have upped the stakes in the battle for internet privacy by targeting users of Tor. Not only have the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden up until this…
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