March 2019 – Dark matters

Research

What is the darknet?

By Angus Bancroft 7 March 2019 28 September 2020

A darknet is any system that isolates and obfuscates internet traffic through a combination of hardware and software. Facebook has some features of a darknet. It does separate itself from the web and obfuscates users from each other depending on a combination of user-controlled and system controlled settings. Ultimately users …

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