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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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SINGAPORE - The Dark Web is no longer being used by just hackers and drug peddlers. It is increasingly drawing in people from other walks of life - even in Singapore.
In September, a 47-year-old man here was sentenced to five year's jail, for plotting to murder his former lover's boyfriend by hiring a hitman on the Dark Web.
