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Dark web and RouterOS

4-part mini-series: how a router ends up on the access market, how to notice it, how to recognize a compromise, and how to defend it (series tag: only the author adds it): all dojo articles on this topic.

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The dark web isn’t one place: Tor, the other networks, and how onion works

«Dark web» isn't one place: there are at least four separate anonymity networks — Tor, I2P, Lokinet, Freenet — and Tor is the vast majority. This sheet lines up how it really works: three-hop onion routing, .onion addresses that are public keys, the stealth layer (the «deep dark web» you can't browse without an invite) and an honest threat model. It closes with onionwatch, the tool to observe it, defensively.

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