Surveillance Society

  • Introduction to Digital Technologies

    Why The Darknet is Not that “Dark”?

         The Darknet tends to be known as a space for irregulated criminal activity such as drug distribution, child pornography and trafficking. In the last few years, it became one of the main topics in the cyber security sector as well as in mass media. Various news media portray Darknet as an environment of the natural flourishing of the criminal activities, which often include usage of one of the main browsers Tor (Mirea et al., 2018). But what is the Darknet? The Darknet is a collection of thousands of websites that use anonymity tools such as Tor and I2P to hide their IP address (Greenberg, 2014). The Darknet is…