Deep_Web. Tor Project: Anonymity Online. How to access onion sites? - Deep Dot Web. Welcome to the Underground. Yes, Federal Agents Can Identify Anonymous Tor Users, Because Most People Don't Know How To Be Anonymous. For many, many years now, we keep hearing law enforcement whine about the "threats" of anonymity and how people would be able to get away with all sorts of criminal activity if they weren't given the ability to track, monitor and tap pretty much every communications technology that has come along.
A decade ago the fear was that free and open WiFi was going to be a major boon to criminals who could use it "with no trace. " As we pointed out, however, nothing about using an anonymous connection like that means you won't get caught, because criminals have to do a lot of things, many of which will expose them in other ways, without having to tap and track every technological interaction. What's known as good old-fashioned detective work can often track down criminals who used tools to be anonymous -- and for years, we've pointed out many, many, many examples of this.
But officials are becoming more confident that Tor's shield of anonymity isn't impenetrable. This is a good thing. So you thought Tor was bad enough. Check out Tor’s Hidden Web Services. « WebCase WebLog. Recently and article appeared at NPR titled “Senators Target Internet Narcotics Trafficking Website Silk Road”.
I only bothered to hit the link because I saw it mentioned on the website Anit-forensics.com. The short article complained of drugs blatantly sold on the Internet and something needed to be done about it and Congress is going to solve that one for us. Although selling drugs on the Internet is nothing new, the place on the Internet “openly” selling drugs was on the Tor network through the use of Tor’s “Hidden Services” function. The “Silk Road” is an online market open for the sale of goods and named after the ancient road used to bring goods from the orient to the west. For the power user of the Tor network Hidden Services is probably nothing new.
Hidden services were introduced to the Tor network in 2004. To get to these hidden services you must be using the Tor Network and have your browser enable to use Tor. Welcome to .onion. Why we need Tor now more than ever. By Jillian C.
York on September 28th, 2014 Since Edward Snowden leaked documents demonstrating the breadth of the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance last year, the global conversation around Internet freedom has shifted from censorship to surveillance. Where once the focus was on China’s Great Firewall or Iran’s vision of a “halal Internet,” now eyes are trained on the use of FinFisher for targeted surveillance or the NSA’s global dragnet. But censorship and surveillance go hand in hand. Just as censorship restricts individuals from accessing information and communicating freely, surveillance also chills speech, causing fear amongst a populace and hindering innovation, communications, and progress. Fortunately, there is one tool that addresses both problems: Tor. Initially developed by the U.S. “Without Tor, I couldn’t do my job.” It isn’t just individuals in repressive environments that value Tor, however.
But what about the risks? Jillian C. Tors Hidden Services. PGP tutorial for N00BZ.