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When 'dark' is not all evil
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Tor was developed by the US Navy to protect government communications. It is now widely used to access the Dark Web.
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The Dark Web is not all about drugs, porn, stolen identities and data. It also plays host to an enormous amount of legal content from research papers to some major newspapers and even social media sites such as Facebook.
People use these parallel sites on the Dark Web primarily because their governments have blocked access to them or because they want to stay anonymous and conceal their physical location and usage from surveillance or traffic analysis.
