On October 1st 2013 in Glen Park library, a branch of the San Francisco Public Library; an FBI agent presented Ross Ulbricht a warrant for his arrest, Ulbricht was the founder and the operator of the notorious, and highly illegal Silk Road Market, operating deep within the internet, which is not accessible by standard search engines, nor is indexed by these search engines. The arrest have sparked a nationwide interest, and introduced a variety of new terms, unknown to most computer users, the new expressions are deep web, dark web, Tor Network, and many others. (Weiser, 2015). Nonetheless, the first attempt to create an anonymous web was attempted not by criminals of the information age, but it was launched by the United States Naval
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Clarke designed Freenet; which he completed as a graduation requirement in the summer of 1999. "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System" (Clarke, Sandberg, Wiley, Hong, 2001) have become one of the most cited computer science articles in 2002. Freenet offers two modes of protection; the dark net mode in which it connects only to friends, and an open net-mode in which it connects to any other Freenet user. When the user switches to pure dark net operation, Freenet becomes very difficult to detect from the outside. On 11 February 2015, Freenet received the SUMA-Award for “Protection against total surveillance”. (SUMA, 2015). The year 2003 have brought the initial release of Invisible Internet Project (I2P), uses include anonymous web surfing, chatting, blogging, and file transfers, the software is free, and open source. All communication is end-to-end encrypted, in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message, and even the end points, or "destinations" are essentially a pair of encrypted public keys, so that neither sender nor recipient of a message need to reveal their IP address to the other side or to third-party …show more content…
Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to vulnerable Internet users such as political activists fearing surveillance and arrest, ordinary web users seeking to bypass censorship. (Gurnow, 2013). The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has called Tor "the king of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity". (Ball, Schneier, Greenwald, 2013).
In March 2011, The Tor Project received the Free Software Foundation's 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The citation read, "Using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity. Its network has proved essential in dissident movements in both Iran and more recently Egypt." (Sullivan,
Clarke designed Freenet; which he completed as a graduation requirement in the summer of 1999. "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System" (Clarke, Sandberg, Wiley, Hong, 2001) have become one of the most cited computer science articles in 2002. Freenet offers two modes of protection; the dark net mode in which it connects only to friends, and an open net-mode in which it connects to any other Freenet user. When the user switches to pure dark net operation, Freenet becomes very difficult to detect from the outside. On 11 February 2015, Freenet received the SUMA-Award for “Protection against total surveillance”. (SUMA, 2015). The year 2003 have brought the initial release of Invisible Internet Project (I2P), uses include anonymous web surfing, chatting, blogging, and file transfers, the software is free, and open source. All communication is end-to-end encrypted, in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message, and even the end points, or "destinations" are essentially a pair of encrypted public keys, so that neither sender nor recipient of a message need to reveal their IP address to the other side or to third-party …show more content…
Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to vulnerable Internet users such as political activists fearing surveillance and arrest, ordinary web users seeking to bypass censorship. (Gurnow, 2013). The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has called Tor "the king of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity". (Ball, Schneier, Greenwald, 2013).
In March 2011, The Tor Project received the Free Software Foundation's 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The citation read, "Using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity. Its network has proved essential in dissident movements in both Iran and more recently Egypt." (Sullivan,