Tor and Darknet: World of Anonymity

TOR first began as a provider for the Naval Research Laboratory to help protect communication with the government.  It it used now among everyone in order the protect their privacy from rigorous marketers and identity theft.  Millions of people's information are being sold to other marketers every day.  I can see that such as in my email comparing it to the things I have searched.  Private data is kept from being public to others to keep you safe.  It even hides your IP address whereas just your IP alone can give away your location especially when it comes to children and teenagers who aren't aware of this when browsing the web.  Tor itself keeps websites from ever tracking you while browsing to instant messaging with others.

As you can see in the title of TOR is an onion which represents "Onion Routing" that relates to the layers of encryption where data is broken down and encrypted multiple times through a cycle from revealing information of the user to whatever destination it's sent to in the end. I researched that even the NSA believes that Tor is "still the King of high secure, low latency Internet anonymity."  That's pretty much a big deal there to something that is free among all users and especially for the the government  to make a statement like that.

It works by separating information sent out of a user and its routing.  Then the onion routing comes into play as it encrypts and then it jumps around through the network randomly.  It routers the encryption in a "multi-layered manner" to ensure anonymity in the network between relays.  I know this much that internet service providers dislike the use of Tor because they cannot see what the user is downloading etc.  Someone I know, I got a letter from the provider that they knew they were using a program to block them from knowing their internet activity.  That didn't stop them though from continuing use of it.

Darknet is known as the "Deep Web" where it is so much harder access as it's very anonymous. The address you use isn't the same as on a regular browser. It supposedly consist over 200,000 websites listed "down there" and is extremely hard to find.  You must connect to the Tor network in order to use it where you can host a website without revealing your location.  On the Darknet, you don't have the real address of the server with the data encrypted.

There is a lot of very interesting things in Darknet with typical news, blogs, forums, speaking your mind freely, etc.  Then there is the bad illegal side such as with drugs, sex, weapon dealers, credit-card scammers, and other illicit activity. Sadly, there are people who use it for sick reasons such as with child porn. Just because Tor network provides so much security and keeps you anonymous it doesn't keep you from the basic everyday problems on the internet like being hacked, identity theft, or viruses.  It just seems it's the place to do more evil than good to many.