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Darknet market sites offer all types of illegal goods and services (drugs, false papers, counterfeits, data, money laundering). On these sites, users are very sensitive to their anonymity and security. <br>
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5 Good Reasons To Spend Your Summer On The Darknet The darknet has a bad reputation. Even if you are not a pedonazi, there are plenty of good reasons to go for a ride this summer. Neither censorship nor registration, spend vacations in complete freedom. 1. Cheaper than plane, train or even carpooling A darknet is a more or less private network within the Internet. It is accessed by installing software: Tor, I2P or Freenet to name only the most famous. All this software is free, therefore free. When you know that a Paris - Marseille return ticket can reach 130 €, frankly, there's no picture. It also helps prevent sunburn. To go on the darknet, you have to be behind a PC and that's still a big advantage over the beach. When you are on the darknet, you are at home, quiet, preferably in a dark room so as not to have reflections on the screen. No sun so no sunburn. Come on, don't thank me. 2. Do not go out on the Internet, it's a bit like the naturist beaches of Cap d'Agde, you can see everything. When you surf the web, your access provider technically has access to all the data that passes unencrypted: the sites you visit, your searches on google, the comments you post, the passwords on certain sites, etc. Most darknets use strong encryption algorithms, so you can hide your privacy from your ISP. When you use a darknet, you go through several computers around the world. For Tor for example, you go through three computers before arriving at your final destination. The first may be in France, the second in Panama
and the third in Australia. Going through multiple computers (also called “nodes”) helps ensure your anonymity online. With Freenet, you download files in encrypted peer 2 peer on computers located all over the world. 3. Access everything, everywhere, all the time Have you ever been refused access to a restaurant or a party? With darknet it will never happen again. The very principle of a darknet is to make all types of content accessible to everyone. They are extremely effective tools against censorship. Tor provides access to blocked sites on the Internet. I2P, freenet and Tor provide the ability to host sites or files directly in their respective networks, making them virtually unblockable. On the darknet, you won't be disturbed by neighbors. Internet is worse than the beaches of the French Riviera. There are an estimated five billion Internet users in the world. Tor, by far the most widely used darknet, has around two million daily users. Suffice to say that in terms of attendance, the darknet, it looks more like a beach in Brittany in November than in Ibiza in August. 4. Fuck it off with your pals If you go on the darknet this summer, you can tell your pals you've come back from a place where there are pedophiles, drug dealers, terrorists and even pedonazis. They'll think you spent the summer in Pakistan, Afghanistan, 3rd Reich Germany, or Belgium. A darknet network, due to its decentralized architecture, cannot be controlled. No control, no censorship: on a darknet you publish what you want; pictures of cute cats or something a little less cute. Some media a little on the lookout for sensationalism have carved a dirty reputation for
darknets by highlighting the sour sides. But if on the darknets there are indeed sites selling drugs or weapons, there are also sites dedicated to politics, anonymity, NGO sites and a whole bunch of content that is censored for political reasons in many countries (China, Vietnam, Iran, Saudi Arabia, non-exhaustive list). On the darknet, we can meet stars, well above all one: Edward Snowden. For those who have spent the past two years in a basement, back to the facts: Edward Snowden is a former employee of a computer company working for the NSA who has forwarded to reporters over 20,000 documents revealing the scale of online surveillance by the US. To communicate these documents without getting caught Edward used (among other things) the Tor darknet. On a darknet, connections are encrypted and anonymized. Rather handy when you have the FBI in the Basque country. Snowden is not the only one to use the darknet to communicate: journalists, NGOs, human rights defenders also use darknets to protect their identity, networks, contacts or sources. 5. Piss off Cazeneuve When you go through a darknet, your internet connection is anonymized. Nobody knows who you are, much like the early days of the Internet. That, our Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, he doesn't like too much. It prevents him from monitoring your surfing with his black boxes to know if you are radicalizing yourself on the Internet by consulting terrorist sites. This is evidenced by his work to promote the infamous intelligence law or his interventions in the National Assembly. As recently as a few months ago Bernard told us this:
My intelligence services were able, through information exchanges, to know that terrorists were carrying out encrypted communications on the darknet giving precise information on their intention to commit terrorist acts. Just for info Bernard, to communicate in an encrypted (we don't say “encrypted”) and anonymous way, we don't necessarily need to go through the darknet to get dark web links. Next time, before you say bullshit, you ask me. And if you want a hand to go to the darknet, don't hesitate, it's a gift!