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Briar (software) – uses onion services as address when message medium is internet [11] Cryptocat [12] (defunct) Keybase [13] Ricochet (software) – uses Tor network by default for message sending and receiving [14] TorChat (defunct)
The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion pseudo-top-level domain which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. [1] Its main page provided a community-maintained link directory to other hidden services, including links claiming to offer money laundering, contract killing, cyber-attacks for hire, contraband chemicals, and bomb making.
.onion is a special-use top-level domain name designating an anonymous onion service, which was formerly known as a "hidden service", [1] reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the Internet DNS root, but with the appropriate proxy software installed, Internet programs such as web browsers can access sites with .onion addresses by ...
These so-called "onion" services can help publishers evade country-specific web censorship, while also delivering their content to people who simply use the Tor Network to surf in private.
TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. [ 1 ] The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tell who is ...
In the 2005 film Hard Candy, Elliot Page plays a teenage vigilante seeking revenge on a sexual predator. But as revealed in his new memoir Pageboy, the then-17-year-old actor was subjected to ...
Tor2web acts as a specialized proxy or middleman between hidden services and users, making them visible to people who are not connected to Tor. To do so, a user takes the URL of a hidden service and replaces .onion with .onion.to. Like Tor, Tor2web operates using servers run voluntarily by an open community of individuals and organizations.
The operation started after Dutch law enforcement compromised a hidden service called Pedoboard, and found it was physically located at a Nebraska web hosting company. [1] [2] The ensuing FBI investigation found that an employee, Aaron McGrath, was operating two child pornography sites at his work and one at his home.