G.M.H. and his co-founder, University of Utah communications professor Robert W. Gehl, met on the dark-web social network Galaxy. The two avid readers (G.M.H.’s pseudonym is inspired by 19th century ...

Yesterday, a rumor surfaced on deep web blog DeepDotWeb that Comcast was going to start blocking users of Tor, an anonymous web browser. Comcast Vice President Jason Livingood immediately and ...

At long last, the Tor Project is releasing an official web browser for Android users. The new Android app is available now as an alpha release in Google’s Play Store and on the experimental releases ...

According to security firm iovation, a full 30.2% of transactions conducted from Tor in August were fraudulent. This compared with an overall fraud rate of 1% for all online transactions during the ...

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“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

MIT researchers have developed digital attacks which can unmask Tor services in the Deep Web with a high degree of accuracy. As reported by Net Security, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

There are plenty of solid, legitimate reasons to want to surf the web anonymously. Maybe you’d like an additional level of protection against snoopy advertisers. Or, perhaps, you’d prefer to make it ...

The Tor web browser, which has about 2 million users who are anonymized with a combination of encryption and rerouting all traffic multiple times, may not be so anonymous after all. That's according ...

Some users of the anonymous web browser Tor have reported that Comcast has threatened to cut off their internet service unless they stop using the legal software. Comcast completely denies their ...