Defending Tor - gateway to the dark web

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Defending Tor - gateway to the dark web

Interview with Roger Dingledine

He is the co-creator of Tor, the most popular software available for gaining access to the part of the internet unreachable using a conventional browser - including what is often referred to as the dark or underground web.

To some, Tor is a menace: a (largely) impenetrable system that enables some of the most depraved crimes to take place on the internet.

To others, it is a lifeline, the only way to safely access the online services that most of us take for granted.
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he criticised misinformed journalists for sensationalising the size and scale of the dark web.

“I think a lot of it comes down to incentive mismatches,” he tells me, "where journalists have to create more controversy and get something so that everybody will want to read their article.

“The story is privacy is under threat around the world, and that’s been the story for a while - so they need a new story.”