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Playpen was a darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015. [1] [2] The website operated through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was arrested by the FBI.
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]
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A network telescope (also known as a packet telescope, [1] darknet, Internet motion sensor or black hole) [2] [3] [4] is an Internet system that allows one to observe different large-scale events taking place on the Internet. The basic idea is to observe traffic targeting the dark (unused) address-space of the network.
Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet [5]) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship.
Tor2web preserves the anonymity of content publishers but is not itself an anonymity tool and does not offer any protection to users beyond relaying data using HTTP Secure (HTTPS). [5] Since version 2.0, a privacy and security warning is added to the header of each web page it fetches, encouraging readers to use the Tor Browser to obtain anonymity.
Evolution was a darknet market operating on the Tor network. The site was founded by an individual known as 'Verto' who also founded the now defunct Tor Carding Forum . [ 4 ] Evolution was active between 14 January 2014 and mid-March 2015.
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.