Tor Hidden Services Discovery and Analysis: A Literature Survey

Bian, Jingjing; Cao, Chunjie; Wang, Longjuan; Ye, Jun; Zhao, Yan; Tang, Chaosheng

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1757/1/012162

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“…Others are shut down by denial-of-service attacks (Faubert et al, 2021). 2 The dark web refers to an anonymous communication channel that makes it extremely difficult to identify the location of web servers, as well as the location of the visitors of those websites (Bian et al, 2021). 3 These forums are Avengers, Dread, Envoy, Hidden Answers, The Hub, New Zealand, Reddit, and Torum.…”

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“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web

Décary‐Hétu,

Faubert,

Chopin

et al. 2023

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research summaryCrackdowns are law enforcement strategies based on the principles of deterrence theory, which stipulates that offenders are rational actors who will refrain from crime if perceived risks are higher than perceived benefits. Studies have shown that the effects of police street drug crackdowns are mostly short termed and followed by considerable displacement. In the early 2010s, an important part of illicit drug trades moved online to cryptomarkets, and law enforcement agencies have responded by engaging in online drug crackdowns. In this study, we focus on the perceptions of dark web users in order to determine, from a qualitative “data‐driven” perspective, whether police online crackdowns may have a cyber‐deterrent effect by analyzing 1796 forum posts. Our results show that these events trigger psychological and practical consequences that participants claim to have a conditional, although minor, deterrent effect. In the majority of cases, dark web users claimed to engage in several forms of spatial and tactical displacement.Policy implicationsOur study suggests that police crackdowns on the dark web have limited, short‐term effectiveness in curbing illicit activities. It proposes that innovative policing approaches such as problem‐oriented policing and “pulling levers/focused deterrence” strategies, which involve identifying key actors and engaging with them, be potentially extended to the dark web. While this approach is promising, it emphasizes the need for further research to assess its efficacy in the online realm, as it is a largely uncharted territory for law enforcement.

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“…22The dark web refers to an anonymous communication channel that makes it extremely difficult to identify the location of web servers, as well as the location of the visitors of those websites (Bian et al., 2021). …”

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“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web

Décary‐Hétu,

Faubert,

Chopin

et al. 2023

Criminology & Public Policy

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“…This service uses an Onion Routing technique to serve the encryption and anonymity for data packet that need to be send to the destination by bounce the data packet to several servers in another country, which located inside the Tor relay. According to Bian et al (2021), based on their analysis, Tor service provide a good foundation for Tor hidden services content analysis. In terms of the algorithm, some researchers have proposed new algorithm such as Local Distance Neighbor (LDN) to improve the performance of Tor.…”

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Enhancing Security and Privacy in Local Area Network (LAN) with TORVPN Using Raspberry Pi as Access Point: A Design and Implementation

Osman

Sedek

Othman

et al. 2021

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Network security is designed to protect the integrity, confidentiality and accessibility of computer networks and data using both software and hardware technologies. Every person, including organization requires a degree of network security solutions in place to protect it from the ever-growing landscape of cyber threats in the wild today. This paper aims to design and implement TorVPN as an access point using Raspberry Pi in enhancing security and privacy in Local Area Network (LAN). This access point was implemented by using the combination of The Onion Router (Tor) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services. Then, the graphical user interface application was developed to assist and facilitate the user to access the network securely without having the difficulties to configure and install any software. To determine the effectiveness of the proposed work, there were two experiments involved in this study. Firstly, the confidentiality test which to verify its privacy in keeping the information securely. Secondly, the performance test of the Internet connectivity in terms of ping, download and upload speed. The encourage results was expected as the confidentiality tested on the TorVPN access point network has shown the positive outcome by securing client’s Internet data packet. While, the Internet connectivity is not stable enough, when the client’s IP address changed in the network. Hence, the combination VPN and Tor service using Raspberry Pi as an access point inside the LAN is suitable and secure the information in the network, but do not suggest for user who wants a good Internet connectivity.

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