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Tor aims to conceal its users' identities and their online activity from surveillance and traffic analysis by separating identification and routing. It is an implementation of onion routing, which encrypts and then randomly bounces communications through a network of relays run by volunteers around the globe.
The Tor Project, Inc. was founded on December 22, 2006 [5] by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acted as the Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of the Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge ...
The dark web, also known as darknet websites, are accessible only through networks such as Tor ("The Onion Routing" project) that are created specifically for the dark web. [ 12][ 15] Tor browser and Tor-accessible sites are widely used among the darknet users and can be identified by the domain ".onion". [ 16]
Messaging. Briar (software) – uses onion services as address when message medium is internet [ 10] Cryptocat [ 11] (defunct) Keybase [ 12] Ricochet (software) – uses Tor network by default for message sending and receiving [ 13] TorChat (defunct)
DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. [ 2][ 13] Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. Self-funded by Weinberg until October 2011, DuckDuckGo was then "backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors ."
Tor (The onion router) is an anonymity network that also features a darknet – via its onion services. Tribler is an anonymous BitTorrent client with built in search engine, and non-web, worldwide publishing through channels. Urbit is a federated system of personal servers in a peer-to-peer overlay network. Zeronet is a DHT Web 2.0 hosting ...
OnionShare. OnionShare is an open source file sharing application using tor network to share files, available on most major platforms. It also lets users host websites and chat in a secure and anonymous manner. It uses peer-to-peer sharing over Tor network to preserve privacy and anonymity. [ 3][ 4][ 5][ 6]
The deep web, [ 1] invisible web, [ 2] or hidden web[ 3] are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engine programs. This is in contrast to the "surface web", which is accessible to anyone using the Internet. [ 4] Computer scientist Michael K. Bergman is credited with inventing the term in 2001 as a ...