It's normal to fear the unknown. Especially when its name is "dark" and the few things you have heard about it, is that criminals hang out there. How can it be anywhere nice people will go?
Let me offer up a scenario where it is both beneficial and legitimate: a victim of domestic abuse has to leave town because their life, or at least safety, is at risk. When the victim uses normal email to communicate with friends or other family members, the sending computer's IP address is embedded in the header (see www.ip2location.com/free/email-tracer ). If the abuser obtains access to one of these emails, the victim's location is revealed. Using the "dark web" or TOR (the Onion Router) can help hide the real location of the sender and protect against giving away their location. Other legal and legitimate use cases are described in more detail at www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en. In fact, TOR was created by the US Navy to protect the location of American spies in hostile locations. It is still used by whistleblowers to report wrongdoing by powerful entities (see "Whistleblower Strategies" elsewhere on this site). If you have need of privacy (security) and want to talk about it, feel free to contact me through the Contact page to set up a meet. If either of us doesn't think it will work after at most a half hour, no trouble - we should call it and there should be no obligation on either side. Comments are closed.
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