The end of Tor: new age for anonymity network and for the deep web
First, what is the "anonymity network" -know also as "the deep web", "the dark web" or even "the hidden web"- but governments calls it the criminals network?
It's apart of the world wide web and it's contents isn't indexed by the standard search engine so its the opposite surface of the web.
The technologies of this network are based on peer-to-peer connection and data-encryption and it's about hiding the identity of the net users to get the freedom in browsing and posting on the web and getting ride of governments control over the cyber world.
But fast illegal a activities had taken over the entire network such as drug dealing ,weapon selling ,hitmans networks for killing.
What they use to get in ? here comes The TOR project.
According to wikipedia:
Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is derived from an acronym for the original software project name "The Onion Router". Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms".Tor's use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored.Recently agencies and researches was trying to penetrate the Tor-network,and various weaknesses and vulnerabilities were found and exploited by the NSA and other agencies to trace the dark web users and getting their identities.
The Tor-network had become more and more weak,until a new project developed researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" could present a new anonymity scheme that provides strong security guarantees and uses bandwidth much more efficiently than its predecessors: Riffle will be the next Project