Inside The Underweb: Home To Stolen Credit Cards, Pedophiles, Hitmen, Drug Dealers--And Free Speech | Fast Company

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When the German Foreign Office hosted a human rights conference several months ago, one of the invited guest organizations was the Tor Project . The Tor Project runs a secure, anonymous network and distributes free software used by dissidents and free speech activists worldwide. Activists in countries like Syria and Ethiopia use Tor regularly. The Tor Project, in fact, receives funding from the United States State Department for that very purpose. There's a catch, however. The same secure communications Tor offers have attracted spies, criminals, and pedophiles alongside political dissidents. Tor's network, referred to as the "underweb " in popular discussion, is a strange entity. It exists beneath the sanitized experiences of Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It exists way down deep, in a walled-off web threaded with secure communication routes and populated with political di...

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