Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoHow does a person surf the Dark Web? Or is it just porn, and other stuff? Or anything worth reading? I think it would be kind of hard to use the dark web.message-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up127
arrow-up127message-squareHow does a person surf the Dark Web? Or is it just porn, and other stuff? Or anything worth reading? I think it would be kind of hard to use the dark web.Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoOk can you further break it down? I have know idea what a TOR is, I think its a torrent. Or a Talis Live thing?
minus-squareNurse_Robot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-23 months agoTOR stands for The Onion Router. It’s a web browser
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoTOR is a secure VPN service that doesn’t necessarily exit to the regular Internet; TOR Browser is a Firefox-based web browser with the TOR VPN client built in.
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoNothing to do with torrents at all. https://www.torproject.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
Ok can you further break it down? I have know idea what a TOR is, I think its a torrent. Or a Talis Live thing?
TOR stands for The Onion Router. It’s a web browser
TOR is a secure VPN service that doesn’t necessarily exit to the regular Internet; TOR Browser is a Firefox-based web browser with the TOR VPN client built in.
Nothing to do with torrents at all.
https://www.torproject.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)