Re: Dark Web: Tor and Onion

On 9/17/25 5:43 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> When you think of the dark web, you might think of hackers, the
> Silk Road, and other illegal services that operate covertly and
> mysteriously. However, the essence of the dark web for anonymous
> communication is useful for more than just illicit behavior.
> The technologies that surround the dark web are used by
> journalists, people who need access to censored news sites, the
> U.S. military, and even people who just want to avoid annoying
> targeted ads. It may also surprise you that the infrastructure
> used to browse and communicate anonymously on the dark web is
> not so different than that of the internet we know now...
> 
> https://itp.nyu.edu/networks/explanations/demystifying-the-dark-web-an-introduction-to-tor-and-onion-routing/
> 

I've always wondered why the media seem to like to vilify things like 
Tor. I guess it gets more views if they try to spin it into some dark 
evil network, when in reality 99% of traffic on it is pretty innocuous.