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What is the Dark Web in Technical and Practical Terms?<\/b><\/h1>\n

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The emergence of networks within the network<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 2000s saw the emergence of a need for technologies to guarantee anonymity on the Internet. A few pioneers came up with the idea of creating a \u201cnetwork within the network\u201d.<\/p>\n

First, Ian Clark launched the initial version of Freenet, a fully distributed network to store information anonymously. In 2003, the developer zzz launched the first version of I2P (Internet Invisible Protocol), a decentralised network to enable anonymous communication. Then Tor was developed based on research carried out in the 1990s, with its first public version released in 2004.<\/p>\n

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Freenet, I2P and TOR: the three pillars of the dark web.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Figure 1 – https:\/\/freenetproject.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Figure 2- https:\/\/geti2p.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Figure 3- https:\/\/www.torproject.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”11px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]The dark web grew out of these three technologies, with anonymisation by design as the main technical difference from the regular web. These three technologies each offer different features.
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Freenet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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I2P<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Anonymous communication by design<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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The hidden Internet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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CHK: \/ SSK:<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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b32.i2p sites<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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.onion sites<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Deep web<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Anonymous access to the web<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Anonymous storage<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Friend-to-Friend<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Distributed<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Decentralised<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Qu\u2019elles soient cons\u00e9cutives \u00e0 des\u00a0attaques par ran\u00e7ongiciel ou \u00e0 de la n\u00e9gligence, mises en vente par des cybercriminels ou expos\u00e9es dans le cadre d\u2019op\u00e9rations informationnelles associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des revendications id\u00e9ologiques ou politiques, les divulgations de donn\u00e9es constituent une opportunit\u00e9 d\u2019agir pour les attaquants.\u00a0<\/em>\u00bb Panorama de la menace 2022 – ANSSI<\/p>\n

D\u2019apr\u00e8s le 8e<\/sup>\u00a0barom\u00e8tre du CESIN\u00a0de 2023, 74% des entreprises d\u00e9clarent le Phishing comme vecteur d\u2019entr\u00e9e principal pour les attaques subies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dans cet oc\u00e9an de donn\u00e9es du Web, il est primordiale de bien comprendre que c\u2019est bien l\u2019humain qui est en premi\u00e8res lignes et tous les salari\u00e9s doivent prendre conscience de l\u2019impact qu\u2019ils peuvent avoir sur l\u2019organisation avec les donn\u00e9es qu\u2019ils traitent quotidiennement.<\/p>\n

Il faut mettre en place les \u00e9quipes d\u2019analystes, de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et les outiller<\/strong> pour cartographier les donn\u00e9es de l\u2019entreprise qui circulent en dehors de l\u2019entreprise et comme pour tous les risques, planifier<\/strong> les actions \u00e0 mener en cas d\u2019attaques pour garantir la r\u00e9silience des services. Tout comme vous vous \u00e9quipez contre le risque incendie de d\u00e9tecteurs, de sprinklers et d\u2019extincteurs, vous avez des \u00e9quipes form\u00e9es pour qualifier l\u2019alerte lorsque le d\u00e9tecteur de fum\u00e9e se d\u00e9clenche. Ces \u00e9quipes transversales doivent faire fi des silos internes de l\u2019organisation pour la prot\u00e9ger, car en cyber tous les services peuvent donner les cl\u00e9s d\u2019une porte qui permettra \u00e0 un pirate de d\u00e9truire de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur l\u2019\u00e9difice<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Freenet: The strongest anonymity.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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It is very resilient, offering the greatest anonymity of the three. It stores information anonymously using a distributed network and distributed data storage. It led to the creation of a dark web comprising sites made exclusively of files. It also enables communication via forums or social networks. The fact that it is fully distributed makes it very resilient, but also slow.<\/p>\n

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How can you access the Freenet dark web?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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I2P : Anonymity with flexibility.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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It is very flexible and can anonymise other technologies such as the torrent download protocol. It allows users to use torrent-based download tools discreetly.<\/p>\n

Like Tor and Freenet, I2P has its own dark web made of micro websites hosted on your computer (ending in b32.i2p). It can only be accessed via the anonymous I2P network.<\/p>\n

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How can you access the I2P dark web?<\/a> ?<\/h3>\n

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Tor: The most used network.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Like I2P, Tor comprises several websites with names ending in .onion. It is the largest network in terms of content. Sites on the Tor network are formatted almost exactly like sites on the clear web, but its success stems from its ability to anonymise web access.<\/p>\n

Though Tor is by far the most widely used network on the dark web, each of these technologies has specific features that are useful:<\/p>\n