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Illustrazione per Il dark web non è uno solo: Tor, le altre reti, e come funziona l'onion
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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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Illustrazione per onionwatch: ho costruito un motore di ricerca del dark web (e non ci ho trovato quello che pensavo)Lab

onionwatch: I built a dark web search engine (and didn’t find what I thought I would)

I thought the dark web was the exploit shelf. Then I built an engine to look inside it and found a dump of stolen data, refilled by double-extortion ransomware. Here's onionwatch: why I built it, what I found, and how it's built.