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Volunteers urged to build bridges while Tor contests blockade

The Tor Project is going to court in Russia to appeal a recent decision to block its main website, torproject.org.

Court-mandated restrictions on its website have been accompanied by wider attempts to censor access to the Tor network across Russia.

Default bridges available in Tor Browser arent working in some places in Russia and this along with the blocking of the torproject.net website has resulted in a sharp decline in anonymized traffic in the country.

Russia previously had 300,000 daily Tor users, representing around 15% of all users on the anonymity network. But this has declined sharply to fewer than 200,000 daily users since late November 2021.

On December 6, 2021, the Tor Project was notified that the domain torproject.org would be blocked in Russia based on a formal decision of the Russian Saratov District Court of 2017, in accordance with Article 15.1 of the Law on Information in Russia.

The court decision was based on generalized claims that the Tor Projects anonymizing browser facilitated access to extremist materials.

Tor contested these claims arguing that its privacy-protecting browser is an important tool for journalists, activists, human rights defenders, and marginalized people to protect themselves online.

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The Tor Project has teamed up with RosKomSvoboda, a Russian digital rights organization, to file an appeal in Saratov District Court that challenges the block on torproject.org.

The ban was made without allowing the Tor Project to contest the case in addition to violating the constitutional right to freely provide, receive and disseminate information and protect privacy of Russians, the appellants argue.

The first hearing in the case is due to take place on February 7.

Isabela Bagueros, executive director of the Tor Project, commented: With the help of attorneys from RosKomSvoboda, Darbinyan Sarkis, and Abashina Ekaterina, we are appealing the court decision and we hope to revert this situation and help create a precedent in Russia for digital rights.

The Russian government recently installed new censorship mechanisms on different internet providers.

This new censorship system is called TSPU, and it was used to throttle Twitters traffic in 2021. This is an ongoing process and it isnt deployed in the entire country, according to the Tor Project.

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Tor Browser is bundled with different circumvention methods:

Bagueros told The Daily Swig: In ISPs that have TSPU devices installed, Tor users will need to use a bridge to bypass the Tor network block.

At the moment, this device is blocking some known bridges that they have discovered, but Snowflake, meek-azure, and bridges from the Tor Telegram bot will work for them to connect to Tor.

While the case is under consideration, the Tor Project and its allies are taking practical steps to facilitate access to its anonymization network through the Tor Browser.

In order to help counter censorship against the Tor network, more than 1,000 new Tor bridges have been added to the network by volunteer bridge operators since December 2021, as explained in a recent blog post by the Tor Project.

In addition, users in Russia unable to access the main torproject.net website can still access the same set of resources by accessing a mirror website, tor.eff.org, set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Blocking the main website impedes people from downloading the Tor Browser, Bagueros explained. However, we believe that the bigger contribution to the reduced Tor usage in Russia is due to blocking the Tor network itself.

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> Niessa asked about privacy, not anonymity. Do you even know the difference Iron Heart?

Dude, Tor provides anonymity, but it also provides privacy. Privacy is a subset of anonymity, Firefox lacks certain qualities that would be required for anonymity (like shared IP addresses of nodes). I know the difference, seems like you dont realize how the two relate to each other.

> full state partitioning (networking partitioning and Total Cookie Protection) is more than the equivalent of Tor Browsers FPI

*Yawn* Its not that much better, *[editor: removed].

Also, cookies What year is it? Even Google doesnt care about that anymore, hence FLoC.

> HTTPS-Only Mode is more than the equivalent of HTTPS-Everywheres EASE

And? Every single browser has that these days, including most Chromium-based browsers.

> have you even read it Iron Heart?

No. Give me a good reason to read a website created by hobbyists who have never written a single line of code, listening to other people who are full of themselves but have also never written a single line of code!? Are these guys software engineers, do they know what they are talking about? I doubt it.

Also, just like 97% of the overall internet population, I dont want / need / like Firefox, why should I read a guide discussing it, stating things I already know and already wasnt impressed by?

> Tor Browser is no more private than Firefox with two setting changes

LOL, clueless. Read up on the subject, suffice to say that you are wrong.

> site Isolation: rollout is already at 100% for windows/mac

Wow, Chromium had this since 2018, three years ago. Welcome to the party with your immature implementation that can also be enabled in Tor btw.

> further security features in RLBox

Wow, yet another thing Chromium has had for years.

> lets not forget latency and other usability issues with Tor Browser

OK? OP asked for the most private browser, and despite slight usability issues of Tor, its not Firefox.

> you can add uBlock Origin

Yeah, have fun getting your chosen adblock lists fingerprinted no wonder Tor advises against installing it, contrary to the clueless hobbyists you listen to. Its definitely so much better than system- / network-wide blockers. Oh wait, it isnt.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

The Russian Investigative Committee is looking into the work of popular rappers Oxxxymiron and Noize MC after receiving a complaint about their lyrics. As it turns out, the basis for the probe was a satirical LiveJournal post by a left-wing opposition activist, who immediately acknowledged that he wrote it as a joke. With a pre-trial check already underway, Russian investigators now have ten days to decide whether or not to initiate a criminal case. Will they get the joke and drop the probe? Meduza asks experts to weigh in.

Russian Supreme Court upholds presidential decree on classifying NKVD employment records (Yeltsins 1995 orders will stand, thwarting historian Sergey Prudovskys research efforts)

Presidential Human Rights Council chairman asks Moscow mayor to look into upsetting subway signs written in Uzbek and Tajik (Some Muscovites see the signs as evidence that migrants arent integrating into Russian society, says Valery Fadeyev. The ubiquity of English-language text throughout the capital apparently does not trigger people, however.)

Russian Supreme Court sends murder conviction of Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis for appellate review, following ECHR decision in February (The two were convicted of killing lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009. Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov has vowed to help uphold the conviction, which the ECHR says was the result of an unfair trial.)

Lawmakers adopt legislation expanding police powers (Officers will get more search-and-seizure authority, but the State Duma stopped short of formalizing something akin to qualified immunity. Officers will now be permitted to withhold their name and rank if they feel it might endanger them or impede their work. The legislation sanctions practices that are already commonplace, says Mediazona.)

TikTok vlogger sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for attacking FSB squad car during January protests against Navalnys arrest (Konstantin Lakeyev has been in jail since the start of the year)

Federal Investigative Committee director chides generals for allowing Russias acquittal rate to rise though its still less than 1 percent (Alexander Bastrykin expressed concerns about jury trials and instructed staff to work with prosecutors to challenge unjudicial rulings. In 2020, Russian courts acquitted 2,256 people 0.36 percent of all verdicts.)

In 2021, Russias Communist Party managed to become a headache again for the Kremlin, reemerging as a genuine threat to the countrys ruling political party. The Communists staged protests, nominated unruly candidates for the State Duma, and opposed the governments unpopular introduction of COVID-19 vaccine passports. In return, the partys members have found themselves under felony investigation and at the center of attack pieces in the pro-government media. Meduza special correspondent Andrey Pertsev examines how the Kremlin and Russias security apparatus have targeted the Communist Party, and he explores what we know about President Putins thoughts on the campaign.

A methane blast at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in Siberias Kemerovo region killed 51 people on November 25. It was the deadliest mining accident Russia had seen since 2010. The explosion sent toxic smoke through the mines ventilation system, suffocating miners and rescue workers who came to their aid. But as miners at the Listvyazhnaya told Meduza, the mines methane levels had been critical for about two weeks beforehand, ever since a rock collapse completely crushed a ventilation shaft. The Listvyazhnayas management, however, opted against shutting down operations. According to the miners Meduza spoke to, their bosses were afraid they wouldnt fulfill the production plan.

Former Arkhangelsk mayor wants to rename the city Putingrad (Alexander Donskoi says the change would lift peoples spirits and possibly draw more federal funding)

Krasnodar Krai district council boots out Yabloko deputy, following governors demands (Alexander Korovainy lost the seat for supposed corruption, but colleagues say he doesnt even own a car and gets around town on a bicycle. Before entering politics, he taught history. Korovainy lost his job in 2017 for attending a pro-Navalny demonstration.)

Research shows that Yandex search results return highest share of conspiracy-promoting content (four scholars found that Yandex was less likely than Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo to return hyperlinks to scientific sources debunking conspiracy theories)

(Opinion) Andrei Soldatov says Russia blocking the Tor browser shifts the balance between technically advanced democracies and technically backward authoritarian regimes (the technology itself, political from the beginning with its U.S. military origins, has been blurry thanks to its criminal uses and susceptibility to DPI filtration)

(Opinion) Alexey Kovalev says the Kremlins mismanagement of the pandemic and premature triumphalism have cost lives and complicated the states vital work (vaccine skepticism is rampant, thanks in part to Russias own misfired state propaganda, and a lack of leadership from Putin has undermined federal efforts)

Three-quarters of Russians oppose QR-code vaccine passport requirements for accessing public transport (only 54 percent of respondents opposed mandatory vaccination against COVID-19, however)

U.S. Justice Department will explore possible regulatory modifications to FARA (The agency is soliciting public comments on how the U.S. government administers and enforces disclosure and labeling requirements for foreign agents. The Kremlin claims that Russias foreign agent laws mirror American regulations.)

Nobel laureate and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief tells U.S. democracy summit that all nations, America included, should ditch foreign agent laws (Dmitry Muratov points out that the Kremlin cites FARA in the United States when justifying Russias foreign agent policies)

(Opinion) Russian deployments, force posture, and possible intentions along the border with Ukraine (writing for the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, analyst Andrew Bowen summarizes in just three pages! the leading speculation about what Russias military is doing you-know-where)

Germanys new leadership would consider halting Nord Stream 2, if Russia expands invasion of Ukraine (Chancellor Olaf Scholz is broadly supportive of the infrastructure project, but hes reportedly flexible about responding to a broader war in Ukraine)

Biden signals wish to convene meetings between NATO allies and Russia to discuss Moscows grievances with the pact (eastern states are reportedly spooked that any talk of compromise with Moscow means Washington will abandon them to Russian aggression)

(Opinion) International Crisis Group briefing breaks down Russian military buildup near Ukraine and proposes mutual de-escalatory measures (The researchers endorse Washingtons approach to signal the repercussions of escalation by Moscow, acknowledging Europes broken security system and the limits of deterrence alone. This necessitates deals with Russia to prevent military buildups, using Minsk II, warts and all, as a basis.)

(Opinion) Samuel Greene and Graeme Robertson say invading Ukraine wouldnt help Putin (They argue that Putins overriding interest is in maintaining and cultivating his own power, he relies on popular support, his ability to shape public opinion has limits, and he minimizes the costs at home of any adventures abroad. In other words, Putin wont pursue goals of conquest that cost him power domestically. With an invasion of Ukraine unlikely, albeit possible, the West should strap in for a long period of confrontation and relearn strategic patience.)

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JOSH Duggar is living in a massive Arkansas mansion during his child pornography home confinement after he stayed in his dads warehouse with his wife, Anna, and their young children.

The 33-year-old was arrested and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography in April.

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Jim Bob and Michelles troubled son is currently on home confinement and is living with third party custodians LaCount and Maria Reber who are longtime friends of the patriarch.

The Sun can exclusively reveal Josh is residing in a massive mansion in Elkins, Arkansas with the Reber family.

According to Arkansas property records obtained by The Sun, LaCount, 49, and Maria, 53, bought nine acres of land in 2005 for $68,000.

In 2007, the couple built a one-story house on one-acre of the property.

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The abode features four bedrooms and three bathrooms.

The exterior of the home has brick and slab, and the interior has tile and carpeting throughout.

The house also boasts a fireplace and porch.

Josh will have privacy with the Reber family, as a long gravel driveway leads from the main road to the home.

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The home is an upgrade from his previous living conditions, as he resided on the Duggar family compound in a renovated warehouse with his wife and children.

Anna recently welcomed their seventh child together.

The warehouse was featured on Counting On as a wedding dress pop-up shop for John Davids wife Abbie.

The photos from the episode match all of the photos of Annas Instagram inside the home.

LaCount is an MRI tech with the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

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He previously volunteered as a chaplain at the Washington County Jail, where Duggar remained for a week.

Maria is a homemaker, and shares a son and daughter with her husband.

Their daughter, Hannah, 22, teaches piano lessons from the family home.

LaCount and Maria are church friends of Jim Bob and Michelle.

They admitted at the hearing that they did not know Josh well.

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At Joshs detention hearing, parole officer Diem Nguyen said Maria had reservations of Josh living with her family.

Diem explained: "Her concern was she was a woman and Josh was a man and that she felt, she didnt know how she felt about being alone with him for a long period of time.

The officer then explained how minors come in and out of the home for piano lessons, but that they are always supervised by an adult.

The family also owns firearms, which caused concern for the judge.

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Josh would stay in an add-on bedroom in the home. The Internet is password protected.

The parole officer said: "Based on his job and hes a pastor, volunteers, they could be suitable third party custodians. However, the minors coming into the home and the pistols cause the probation office some concern.

When Joshs lawyer spoke, he said they would provide a suitable residence.

She agreed, however, to remove the firearms from the home and not have the lessons there as well.

On Hannahs piano Instagram page, she told a follower on Friday: Currently, Im doing lessons via Zoom or FaceTime.

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According to conditions of release obtained by The Sun, he is restricted to the residence of LaCount and MariaReber at all times except for employment, education, religious services, medical or mental health treatment, attorney visits, court-ordered obligations, court hearings or other activities approved by a parole officer.

Travel is restricted to Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division unless given approval from the U.S. Probation Office. That includes Benton, Washington and Madison counties.

The Arkansas judge ordered Josh to wear a GPS ankle monitor.

Other terms include maintaining employment, no possession of firearms, no excessive alcohol use, no possession of pornography and more.

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Josh has unlimited access to his children with his wife Anna, 33, as long as she is present.

He is unable to have contact with other minors, including his siblings, nieces and nephews.

Thejudge said of her decision to releaseJim Bob and Michelles oldest son: "The court views these charges as very serious. It is a concern to have an agent testify that the file download found on a computer is some of the worst child abuse pornography in 1,000 cases, that concerns the court.

"The victims of your crime, if you committed it, concern the court. Children are involuntary victims of pornography. Theyre subject to human trafficking. This weighs against your release into the community.

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She said the molestation scandal that was made public concerns her, because of the age of the victims and the children in the videos and photos.

The judge added: "I am concerned images and ages are very close to the ages of your children and nephews and nieces and siblings' children.I don't know if you're a danger.

Special Agent Gerald Faulkner from Homeland Security was the first to take the stand at the hearing, as he was questioned by the prosecutor.

He said: In May of 2019, [an Arkansas police officer] identified a computer participating in the known sharing of photos and videos of child pornography.

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He claimed Josh had one two-minute video that contained graphic images.

Also found were 65 images of an underage female consistent with child pornography.

The victims were ages 5 to 10.

It was also allegedJosh accessed the dark webin order to get a hold of the images.

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Joshadmitted he had a TOR browser on his computer, which gave him access to the dark web anonymously.

The Homeland Security special agent explained how the child pornography could be found on the dark web.

The special agent said downloads from a specific file were made which were "in the top five of the worst that I've ever had to examine.

The specific file has been known to include children as young as 18 months old.He did not say if Josh downloaded the photos involving an 18-month-old.

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The Sun previously broke Josh wasarrested for the federal charges in Washington County.

The arrest is related to the 2019 Homeland Security raid on Josh'snow-closed used car dealership in Springdale, Arkansas.

In November 2019, Homeland Security conducted an ongoing federal investigation at the lot.

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According to the indictment, Joshknowingly received child pornographybetween or about May 14, 2019 and on or about May 16, 2019.

For the second count, Josh knowingly possessed material that contained images of child pornography, including images of minors under the age of 12.

According the Department of Justice, Josh allegedly used the internet to download child sexual abuse material. Duggar allegedly possessed this material, some of which depicts the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, in May 2019.

If convicted, he could receive 20 years in prison with fines up to $250,000 for each count.

Joshpleaded not guilty to the chargesat his arraignment.

His trial began on December 1, while Anna has stood by his side by attending each hearing.

Josh's other family members, including sisters Jessa and Joy-Anna and brother-in-laws Austin Forsyth and Derick Dillard, have also been spotted at the courthouse.

A number of shocking allegations have been made throughout the hearings.

The former reality star's ex-girlfriend's mother, Bobye, testified in court on Monday and made disturbing claims aboutpast accusations that he once molested several young girls, according to an onsite reporter for The Sun.

Bobye told the jury that she visited the Duggar's home when Josh was 15, and at that time he confessed to touching a 5-year-old girl inappropriately.

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call RAINN (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network) at 800-656-HOPE (4673).

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The Deep Web and Dark Web both sound intimidating, but that doesnt mean theyre the same thing. While theyre related, knowing the difference can keep you safe from dangerous places on the internet and make you a hit at parties.

Before we get to the distinction between deep and dark, another common conflation has to be cleared up first. We tend to use internet and web interchangeably, but they are very different.

The internet is the network infrastructure we use to communicate globally. That includes the network card in your computer, your router, the fiber line from your house, undersea cables, and all the other bits and bobs that shoot electrical (or optical) impulses all over the planet. You can also include Internet Protocol as a defining feature of the internet. Its the language of the internet and describes exactly how information is encoded and routed over the internet.

The World Wide Web is a service that runs on internet infrastructure. Specifically, its the network of websites hosted on web servers, connected to the internet. The internet plays host to many other services, such as streaming video, FTP (file transfer protocol), email, etc.

The concept of the internet as a network that can host many different types of network applications is important to grasp if you want to understand the difference between deep, dark, and surface webs.

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The surface web is the public face of the internet. When you go to a companys website, youre visiting the surface web. Definitions may vary a little, but the surface web is essentially all of the websites and resources connected to the internet that can be freely discovered and visited. The Google search engine, for example, crawls the web looking for websites that are open for anyone to visit. When you visit our website here at How-To-Geek, youre on the surface web!

The deep web then, is all of the stuff connected to the internet but hidden away behind some form of security. When you log into your webmail service, youre on the deep web. All the stuff you can see unless you log into Facebook? Thats the deep web too.

Rather than being some scary part of the internet. the deep web is the meat and bones of our daily internet experience. Its the basement of the amusement park where all the real work happens so that you can have a good time.

Unsurprisingly then, most of the web is the deep web. At this point, theres usually an analogy involving icebergs and how most of their bulk is under the water.

This brings us to the dark web. The dark web is a part of the deep web, but only a very tiny part of it. These are websites and servers that have been deliberately hidden. The people running the site dont want anyone to know who they are and they certainly dont want just anyone visiting their sites.

This anonymity can be achieved in various ways, but most of the sites on the dark web are onion sites. They can only be accessed using Tor Browser, which gives users access to the Tor network. The Tor network was created to allow completely anonymous (with some additional precautions ) communication over the internet. When a user and a website send data to each other over Tor, the data packets are randomly routed through a massive network of volunteer computers. Each of these nodes only knows where the packet just came from and where its going next, as each layer of an encryption onion is stripped from the packet contents. Its only when the packet reaches the final destination that the last layer of encryption is removed and the intended recipient gets the original data.

While the dark web isnt illegal in most countries.its quickly been adopted by criminals to shuffle illegal content and communication around the world. In combination with the rise of cryptocurrencies, the dark web has enabled billions of dollars in illegal trade.

There are plenty of legitimate websites on the dark web too, but in general, most users should avoid it since it comes with serious cybersecurity risks and any site could be compromised tomorrow, even if it isnt today.

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How to Access the Dark Web Complete Guide?

The dark web can be considered as Area-51 of the internet. Not everyone knows about its existence. It is dangerous, full of controversies, and requires special efforts to locate and enter into it.

It is a black market for criminals that gather there away from the eyes of the law to conduct various dirty businesses. While generally, it is a bad place, it can also become a good place to visit on very rare occasions.

One of the ways to access the dark web is by using a Tor browser. One of the main reasons for using the dark web is to obtain anonymity. Unfortunately, with just the Tor browser, that is not possible.

It means that without a proper security and privacy tool such as a virtual private network, your internet service provider may see what you are doing over the internet.

Not just any virtual private network would do the job for you. Youd specifically need one of the most secure and fastest VPN providers in the world to quickly and securely navigate alleys of the dark web.

Lets take a look at the steps for accessing the dark web.

Step 1: Subscribe to a reliable virtual private network.

Make sure that the VPN provider you select for this job offers robust security and encryption features such as military-grade AES-256-Bit encryption and internet kill switch.

Step 2: Download and install the VPN application on your device.

Top-tier VPN providers offer compatible VPN applications for various devices and operating systems. You can install your desired application from the official VPN provider website.

Step 3: Log in to the application and connect to a VPN server.

Using the login details provided by the VPN provider, log into the VPN application and then connect to the closest VPN server from your actual location to get the fastest connection speeds.

Step 4: Download Tor

Download Tor from their official website download center. Currently, they offer applications for Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux.

Step 5: Install Tor

Launch the downloaded installation file. It will ask you for your preferred installation language. Pick on and complete the whole installation process.

Step 6: Connect/Configure Tor

Once Tor is fully installed, you will be presented with two options, i.e., to Connect or Configure. If you are using a restricted network such as an office, hospital, school, bank, library, or any other place, then Tor will confirm if it is censored in that location.

On the other hand, if you are not present in any restricted network environment, you can simply click on Connect and start using the Tor browser.

Now that you know how to access the dark web, we thought to share some beneficial resources with you.

Even though we have said that these resources are beneficial, it still doesnt mean that you lower your guard down. Accessing these resources without VPN protection makes you vulnerable to various online threats such as hackers, crackers, trojans, malware, and god knows what else.

However, if you are equipped with the necessary precautions, then you may enjoy some of the positive benefits the dark web has to offer, such as:

Here are some common safety precautions to adapt when you browse through the dark web.

Use antivirus software. It will add a layer of protection for safeguarding your device from various online threats. Make sure to update your software frequently.

If you have to use an email address on the dark web, make sure to use a fake email address. Do not use your legitimate email address on any forums, chat rooms, or discussion groups on the dark web.

Make sure not to use anything that can reveal your identity. For example, strictly avoid using your actual name, phone number, or even your photograph.

If you are purchasing something on the dark web, use cryptocurrency as it is completely anonymous. Do not provide your financial details on the dark web at any cost.

If your device has GPS or location service features, then make sure to disable them before visiting the dark web. These geographical features can reveal your actual location to anyone on the internet.

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Dark web monitoring seems to be a hot buzzword in discussions about cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) and how it helps cybersecurity strategy and operations. Indeed, dark web monitoring enables a better understanding of an attackers perspective and following their activities on dark web forums can have a great impact on cybersecurity readiness andposture.

Accurate and timely knowledge of attackers locations, tools and plans helps analysts anticipate and mitigate targeted threats, reduce risk and enhance security resilience. So why isnt dark web monitoring enough? The answer lies in both coverage and context.

When we talk about visibility beyond the organization, one needs to make sure the different layers of the web are covered. Adversaries are everywhere, and vital information can be discovered in any layer of the web. In addition, dark web monitoring alone provides threat intelligence that is siloed and out of context. In order to make informed and accuratedecisions, a CTI plan has to be both targeted, based on an organizations needs and comprehensive, with extensive source coverage to support diverse use cases.

The internet as we know it is actually the open web, or the surface web. This is the top, exposed, public layer where organizations rarely look for CTI. The other layers are the deep web and the dark web, on which some sites are accessed through the Tor browser. Monitoring the deep/dark web is the most common source of CTI. However, to ensure complete visibility beyond the organization and optimal coverage for gathering CTI, all layers of the web should be monitored. Monitoring the dark web alone leaves an organization pretty much, well, in the dark.

The Shadow Brokers is a great example of why it is important to monitor more than just the dark web. In 2016, the Shadow Brokers published several hacking tools, including many zero-day exploits, from the Equation Group, which is considered to be tied to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The exploits and vulnerabilities mostly targeted enterprise firewalls, antivirus software and Microsoft products. The initial publication of the leak was through the groups Twitter account on August 13, 2016, and the references and instructions for obtaining and decrypting the tools and exploits were published on GitHub and Pastebin, both publicly accessible.

The WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 was also first revealed on Twitter, as were different reports on the attack.Coverage of all layers of the web is necessary, yet even with expanded monitoring of additional layers of the web, an organizations external threat intelligence picture remains incomplete and one-dimensional. There are additional threat intelligence sources to cover in order to get a complete threat intelligence view that is optimized for the needs of anorganization. These include:

The surface web for security bulletins, vulnerability DBs, IoC feeds, CERTs notifications, etc. The deep web for its hacking forums, bot markets, malware testing and black markets. The private web for closed circles, calls for action, technical discussions and target lists. The dark web for ransomware sites, exploits, zero-days, illegal trade in critical assets and sensitive data leaks. Social networks for scam reporting platforms and data sharing sites. Messaging apps for closed groups and hacktivists communication channels.

Existing cybersecurity intelligence repositories, alerts and threat feeds, finished intelligence and reports are all sources for contextual analysis and corroboration.

Validating findings with technology partner sources who use other tools and may have unique input, can shed more light on the validation or importance of findings.

When defending against cyberthreats, everything is time-sensitive and broad visibility is key, yet extensive coverage can be a double-edged sword. Gathering data from a wide array of sources will most likely result in too much data to analyze, false positives, inaccuracies, missing vital information and exhausted analysts.

Raw data only becomes valuable once it is analyzed, prioritized and turned into context-based, actionable intelligence suited to the organizations needs, assets, industry, geolocation and more.

From collection through analysis to actionable insights, a customer-centric approach ensures the entire CTI operation is designed to fit an organizations needs. Targeted CTI is defined from the start by taking a customer-centric approach to ensure resources are used optimally and the threats to an organization are revealed in a timely and accurate manner.

To ensure that collection efforts are targeted even when coverage is wide, an organization needs to define the data inputs including critical online assets, C-level executives, organizational details, IT systems and, when relevant, operational technology (OT) systems.

The more data inputs, the less noise an organizations data gathering will create. It is necessary to add a use case relevancy layer to ensure that data is not only gathered and analyzed based on inputs but also according to an organizations business needs and the potential impact specific cyberthreats have on business operations.

These will include topics such as: Fraud detection Data leaks Breach indications Vulnerability prioritization Threat actor profiling External attack surface management Digital risk protection Phishing detection Supply chain monitoring Insider threat

Security organizations focus on collecting and analyzing information to provide assessments and alerts on national and domestic threats from various malicious groups. The more accurate and targeted the intelligence, the better and faster managers can make decisions, reducing the risk to civilians and governmental personnel.

Intelligence organizations usually rely on information from a variety of sources and intelligence approaches, including: Open source intelligence (OSINT), which is information about the suspects gathered from public sources. Signals intelligence (SIGINT), which is gathered from suspects transmissions made through electronic systems. Human intelligence (HUMINT), which is intelligence gathered by and from people.

Managers can make the right decisions based on a complete intelligence outlook, due to the combination of these approaches and an analysis of the information obtained from these multiple sources within the context of the situation.

The same methodology should be applied to CTI operations. Fusing targeted data outputs from online sources, human intelligence and technology partnerships, analyzed within the context of the given situation will deliver insights that enable analysts to respond to threats in a timely manner and strengthen overall security resilience.

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You have to work on this through the routeras options diet plan, as some items immediately restore previous setup after a forced reboot2. verify that you really have a dynamic internet protocol address

If youre not the individual type, you can check if the Internet Service Provider makes use of a static or vibrant internet protocol address. For those who have a static internet protocol address, unfortuitously, you simply cant do much to change your IP address.

a vibrant IP address, conversely, is altered. Merely reconnecting on the websites will most likely work. After that you can check your internet protocol address to find out if this has altered.

To reconnect, merely restart your own router. You might have to do this through the routeras options menu, as some brands immediately restore earlier http://www.besthookupwebsites.org/escort/macon/ setup after a forced reboot. Sometimes, reconnecting does not work instantly, and you also may need to waiting in a single day before your Internet Service Provider assigns you another ip. In this situation, you are able to catch a film on Netflix, get some sleep, and look again the very next day.

As described above, the Omegle website logs their internet protocol address to identify you, so connecting via an alternate system will right away resolve the issue. Simply because Omegle doesnt have the means to diagnose you as a?youa? and will best diagnose the IP address you use.

You can easily hook up from another private venue, like a friendas quarters, or a general public spot like a restaurant providing you with Wi-Fi access. In practice, this will benat the best solution; your donat want to have going on every time you want to make use of Omegle. Picking a coffee shop or a library for video speaking is actuallynat recommended either; when youare using community Wi-Fi, yourare placing your online protection in danger.

Donat really want to go out? Since every network keeps exclusive internet protocol address, the IP for your cellular system changes than the IP for your house Wi-Fi.

Which means that you can easily connect your computer to your phoneas spot to modify your ip and unblock Omegle. Having said that, there are problems to this approach.

First of all, the text speeds will tend to be a great deal tough, just like youall end up being tethering down a 3G, 4G, or 5G cellular network connection. These channels should never be as quickly as the ordinary house Wi-Fi network. Next, websites like Omegle move plenty of facts to maintain the movie chats particularly. Youare likely to chew up through a lot more information than you usually would.

Note: should you decideave never ever connected your computer your spot, youall want to enter the password. Youall see this in setup > Personal Hotspot.

Utilizing a VPN link try, definitely, easy and simple and the majority of dependable treatment for unban Omegle. You may get a unique IP address in minutes, and it also operates each and every time. Your donat need to rely on in an alternative venue to be able to chat, therefore donat must experience sluggish mobile phone facts.

Using the correct applications, internet protocol address contact could easily be changed. For the reason that a VPN encrypts all your valuable information traffic and directs it through an external host before it continues to its location. In this manner, you are taking in the internet protocol address of outside VPN servers; your genuine IP address will continue to be hidden on the external world.

As soon as your actual ip has become hidden, you can access Omegle again, as Omegle does not know who you are. The web site sees a special internet protocol address thereby thinks youare a new user.

However, not every VPN provider is good to utilize with Omegle. There are a number of needs you could desire to take into account

100 % free VPNs, eg, often have restrictions with regards to relationship increase, site visitors volume, and confidentiality. For ideal results, we advice using a paid, reliable VPN company for better security and no performance or data caps.

We purposefully didnt include the Tor browser or a proxy server within proposed options. Positive, both will conceal your IP address thereby do the trick. But the Tor browser paths your data through a variety of hosts; this may substantially impede their surfing skills, making it insufficient to use with Omegle.

a proxy server, having said that, donat encrypt your data and canat restrict third parties from being able to access it. Consequently, we just recommend proxy hosts for low-stake work or even to briefly bypass a firewall or geoblock, for instance.

Here are some characteristics you intend to take into consideration whenever choosing a VPN.

Examine a few VPNs in order to find the perfect VPN available, youll be able to check out all of our assessment web page. If you have stress determining, we recommend NordVPN because it satisfy all standards the following.

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Tor (formerly an acronym for The Onion Router) is often touted as a way to browse the web anonymously. From human rights activists evading oppressive governments to drug dealers selling through online marketplaces, Tor is a popular way to gain significantly more anonymity than you would normally have online. At the same time, Tor isnt perfect, so it can provide a false sense of security if used incorrectly.

In this article, well look at what Tor is and isnt. Then, well take a look at how it works, how it compares to VPN services, and how to stay safe. Youll learn all about Tor and be ready to use it with confidence, knowing that you wont make any beginner mistakes that would compromise your anonymity.

Using the Tor Browser is similar to using any other web browser. Although the process of starting up the browser differs slightly from Chrome or Firefox (Tor must configure a connection to the Tor network before the browser can start), actually browsing the web with Tor is pretty intuitive.

The main difference is that when you browse the web with Tor, your real IP address and other system information is obscured from the websites and services you're visiting. Additionally, it also hides what you're doing from your Internet Service Provider.

The primary uses of Tor are the following:

Using Tor offers a number of privacy and anonymity protections over directly connecting to a website. That said, it also presents some challenges.

The concepts underpinning Tor namely, onion routing were developed by the United States government in the 1990s. It was originally designed to protect the communications of US intelligence agencies across the Internet. The original code for Tor was released under a free and open-source software license by the United States Naval Research Laboratory, allowing other people and organizations to contribute to the project.

Since 2006, a nonprofit called The Tor Project has been responsible for maintaining Tor and the Tor Browser. Financial support comes from corporations like Google, organizations such as Human Rights Watch, and many others.

There are two things people may mean when they say Tor: the networking system and the Tor Browser.

To anonymize Internet usage, Tor routes traffic through multiple randomly-chosen relay servers before accessing the destination website. There are over 7,000 of these servers, which mostly belong to volunteers. The request is encrypted multiple times, so the relay servers only know the previous relay and the next relay, but not the request contents or the full circuit. The network request finally exits the Tor network at an exit node. From the websites perspective, you are browsing directly from the exit node.

Tor hidden services, which will be covered below, are accessed in a slightly different way from standard websites they use .onion domain names and are inaccessible from the regular web.

To actually use Tor to anonymize your communications, you run the Tor Browser on your computer. The Tor Browser is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox that connects to the internet via the Tor network. In addition to the functionality necessary to use Tor, the Tor Browser also bundles a number of extensions that help users maintain their privacy. For example, the NoScript extension is bundled with Tor out of the box, meaning that users have to manually approve individual JavaScript files before they can runhelping to protect against fingerprinting and browser security exploits.

Although Tor is frequently used by privacy-conscious people and those looking to avoid surveillance, it isnt perfect. Simple mistakes can make hours of meticulous privacy protection useless, so it pays to be especially careful when browsing with Tor. Here are some things you should look out for:

Even though Tor encrypts data between the users computer and servers in the Tor network and within the Tor network, it does not encrypt the final part of the connection between the exit node and the destination server. As a result, it is possible for a government or internet service provider to eavesdrop on traffic between the exit node and destination servers. Since the full list of Tor exit nodes is publicly available, any unencrypted traffic leaving exit nodes is likely to be monitored closely.

Another security concern is when the entry relay and exit relay both exist on the same Internet autonomous system (AS) like if the same network operator owns both IP addresses. If this is the case, it is possible for that network operator to use timing-based statistical techniques to determine that a particular network request originated from a particular computer. This technique is difficult to execute, so its usually only possible for governments to pull off. Additionally, it can be expensive, so it is not usually a concern except for high-value targets.

Other signals may also be used to fingerprint users. If you happen to be browsing a compromised website using Tor with JavaScript enabled (or the website youre browsing uses compromised third-party JavaScript), its possible for the attacker to determine who you are based on your mouse movements. Most people move their mouse in a distinct way which can be used to correlate a Tor browsing session with a regular, non-Tor browsing session.

As with regular web browsing, it is always possible to have your web browser compromised as a result of a security bug. While modern browsers, including the Firefox-based Tor Browser, include very good exploit protection, the kinds of adversaries that target Tor users also stockpile browser exploits that browser vendors are completely unaware of (known as zero-day bugs).

Although most security considerations for Tor are only applicable to the most paranoid users, its still a good idea to follow some safety guidelines. Anyone using Tor is automatically enough of a surveillance target that protecting your security is important.

Tor hidden services, onion services, or Tor websites are websites that are only accessible from within the Tor network. All hidden service domain names end in .onion and consist of a very long of seemingly-random characters. Collectively, Tor hidden services are sometimes referred to as the dark web.

These websites are not indexed by and won't appear on search engines like Google. Instead, a number of user-created directories of hidden services allow you to find the sites youre looking for.

The term dark web generally evokes a mental image of criminals selling illegal services through sketchy Tor-based marketplaces. Although much of the news surrounding Tor and Tor hidden services makes it seem as though using them is like walking down a dark alley at night, there are plenty of perfectly legitimate uses for hidden services as well.

Sites like Facebook, DuckDuckGo, and The New York Times run versions of their sites with .onion addresses for journalists and activists living under oppressive regimes.

Some extremely privacy-conscious individuals make their blogs or websites exclusively accessible through Tor hidden services so that their real-life identity cannot be determined.

The US government has steadily improved its technologies for catching and prosecuting criminals who use Tor for illegal purposes. As mentioned above, Tor is vulnerable to timing attacks and other types of advanced compromises that require government-like resources. For that reason, a government with sufficient resources can deanonymize some Tor requests if they control the right internet service providers (which is almost always true of the American government).

While using Tor itself is perfectly legal, there is plenty of illegal activity involving Tor, so be sure to watch out when visiting hidden services so that you dont accidentally end up on a sketchy .onion site. If you decide to access the Dark or the Deep web, do it in a safe way.

Virtual private network (VPN) services are frequently marketed as a way to improve privacy or gain anonymity. In reality, VPN services can be hit-and-miss when it comes to privacy. Some are certainly better at protecting data than Tor, whereas others will compromise your privacy more than not using one at all.

VPNs are point-to-point tunnels. Network traffic travels in an encrypted tunnel from the users computer all the way to the VPN providers network and is forwarded onto the destination server. In that sense, they are similar to Tor.

The most problematic aspect of VPN service marketing is the no-logging policy." Most VPN providers advertise that they do not log how their services are used, so users can feel confident using the service with no legal ramifications. However, there are few ways this claim can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. So if you do end up choosing a VPN for privacy, it's best to go with one that has had its no-logs policy tested in the wild due to some police investigation, or at least one that has had the infrastructure audited by a trustworthy, independent third-party.

The biggest advantages of VPNs over Tor include much better connection speeds for downloading videos and other large files. Also, with a VPN, you can choose the server your data is routed through, or at least the country in which that server is located. Finally, it is far easier to use a VPN systemwide than it is to use Tor outside of Tor Browser.

Whether youre using Tor or a VPN service, be careful not to leak your actual IP address through browser plugins or by logging into an account that would nullify your anonymity.

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Yes. In most of the world, using Tor is perfectly legal. However, there are plenty of illegal activities that can be facilitated with Tor hidden services, so Tor usage may be seen as suspicious by many governments or internet service providers.

Tor Browser, the recommended way to use Tor, uses DuckDuckGo by default. That said, you can use any other search engine you choosebut note that DuckDuckGo uses the least tracking of any major search engine.

Yes. While Tor obscures your IP (so long as you dont accidentally reveal itsee the next section) and Tor Browser includes a variety of anonymizing features that make tracking harder, you still have to be very careful to avoid leaking information that could be used to track you. Dont log into accounts that you use with other browsers or do anything else that would make your browsing session personally identifiable.

Yes, assuming that you dont accidentally leak it. Websites you visit while using Tor will see the IP address of the Tor exit node you are using, not your actual IP. However, browser plugins and torrenting applications can easily leak your actual IP address if you arent careful. Additionally, there are a number of other ways to track users aside from IP addresses. Be sure not to reveal your identity in any other way, like signing into an account you use from another connection. Tor Browser includes a variety of tracking prevention features that help prevent unique browser and device characteristics from being used to fingerprint you across the web. No matter what, vigilance is always necessary to protect your anonymity.

Not reliably. The Chinese governments Great Firewall prevents connections to much of the outside world, including practically all parts of the Tor network. Using Tor in China is significantly more complicated than in most other parts of the world; it generally requires tunneling traffic to another country and then using Tor over that connection. If you already have a VPN that works for getting access to websites that are blocked in mainland China, you may be able to use Tor through that VPN, which can improve your privacy significantly.

If you want to protect your privacy and anonymity as much as possible while browsing the web, Tor and the Tor Browser may be a good choice. Tor is a widely used and well-studied way to avoid surveillance and censorship from internet service providers and government agencies. It also offers access to .onion hidden services, which are used for avoiding oppressive regimes (and, occasionally, less-noble activities as well).

To use Tor effectively, you must be mindful of a variety of security and privacy concerns, as laid out earlier in this article. Depending on your threat model which potential threats you want to protect against you may need to take aggressive measures to keep your browsing anonymous, some of which can make browsing inconvenient.

Virtual private network (VPN) services are marketed similarly to Tor. However, while they offer significantly higher speeds, their protection against surveillance depends on the specific service provider.

In conclusion, Tor is a powerful tool that must be wielded smartly. It can allow you to avoid all kinds of digital oppressionjust like journalists and human rights activists do around the world every day. If used incorrectly, it will only provide a false sense of security. By understanding and following the recommendations made in this article, youll be ready to make use of Tor correctly and in an effective manner.

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The Tor browser, arguably the best privacy-protective internet browser available for most people, is running low on bridge servers. The decline in servers affects the browsers ability to combat censorship and provide a gateway to the open internet in places where governments and other entities tightly control access to information.

In a blog update published this week, the nonprofit Tor Project, the organization that maintains and develops the Tor software, said it currently had approximately 1,200 bridge servers, or bridges, of which 900 support the obfs4 obfuscation protocol. Bridges are private servers that provide access to users living in places where the Tor network is blocked. Tor provides users with anonymity by relaying connections to a server multiple times and, in some cases, through multiple countries.

Nonetheless, it should be noted that Tor isnt just used by people who cant access the internet in their country. Its also used by people who want to hide their IP address or who dont want their browsing activities tracked.

The Tor Project said the number of bridges, which are run by volunteers, has been decreasing since the beginning of the year.

Its not enough to have many bridges: eventually, all of them could find themselves in block lists, the nonprofit said in its blog post. We therefore need a constant trickle of new bridges that arent blocked anywhere yet.

According to the Tor Projects metrics, since mid-August to now, the top 5 countries with users connecting via bridges include (in order of users) Russia, with an average of 12,480 daily users; the U.S., with an average of 10,726 daily users; Iran, with an average of 3,738 daily users; Germany, with an average of 2,322 users; and Belarus, with an average of 1,453 users.

To address the decline in bridge servers, the Tor Project is launching a campaign to bring 200 obfs4 bridges online by the end of the year. It has rolled out modest reward kits, which consist of Tor hoodies, T-shirts, and stickers, for volunteers that run bridge servers for at least a year. (Remember, this is a nonprofit). The projects campaign will end on Jan. 7, 2022.

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