From the course: Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: How Thinking Like a Spy Hunter Can Protect You from Cyberattacks
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What is the dark web?
From the course: Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime: How Thinking Like a Spy Hunter Can Protect You from Cyberattacks
What is the dark web?
- The Dark Web's origin began in the world of espionage. In 1995, three researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Lab designed a way for American spies to communicate anonymously over the internet. They called this spy craft Onion Routing. Onion Routing is a way to protect internet traffic by routing it through multiple servers and encrypting it at every step. Like peeling away layers of an onion, each layer of encryption hides the origin and destination of a message. This allowed spies to communicate without revealing their identity or location. Even if the internet traffic was being monitored, the idea was groundbreaking and the system became the foundation of the modern day TOR network. When you connect to a website using TOR, your data passes through three different nodes: a guard, middle, and exit node. Your unique internet protocol address is hidden at the guard node and the message is encrypted through every step. The guard node might be in one country, but the middle and exit…
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