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Twitter already has access from Tor, the browser of the Dark Web

Twitter launched a version of its site as a service Tor Onion (browser of the dark web that we will explain later) with which users can access this social network from countries where it has been blocked, such as Russia.

It is a tool that would protect the privacy of users and allow them to circumvent censorship.

There are other organizations, such as Facebook, that also have a version that can be accessed from Tor. This is an option to protect connections and traffic paths. As of this Tuesday, Twitter joins the platforms that offer this alternative, according to engineer Alec Muffett, on Twitter.

The director explained that this tool grants “greater privacy, integrity and reliability” users to communicate with each other.

This news comes a few days after Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, blocked access to social media Facebook and Twitter within Russian territory.

The new service in tor network will allow users to get around the lockdown and still use the platform to communicate. More services may adopt this solution.

what is Tor

Tor’s name stands for The Onion Router. The objective of this project is to create a distributed communications network superimposed on the conventional internet. TOR is the best known darknet from Internet. But first you have to understand what the darknet is and how it differs from the clearnet, deep web and dark web.

On the internet there are several layers or paths to explore that are classified according to their level of accessibility. On one side is the clear net, which is the best known internet and is accessed through classic search engines such as Google. This makes up only 10% of what is on the network. It is estimated that there is 90% or more that is not accessible through the usual search engines. All that makes up the deep web.

Inside of deep web there are files, password-protected pages, form pages, non-HTML content (ie textual content in multimedia files, with extensions zip, exe, etc.), content with Captcha, emails stored on the provider’s servers. As you can see, there are thousands of reasons why content may not be indexed.

Now, within the deep web, there is a small portion known as the dark web.. That is to say that the deep web contains the dark web but they are not synonymous. The dark web is intentionally hidden from the usual search engines: they have masked IP addresses.

The dark web exists in darknetswhich are networks that overlay the public web and which can be accessed through specific programs such as Freenet, ZeroNet or Tor, which is the most popular. Although the dark web can be a space for the development of criminal activities, that anonymity is also used as a refuge for political dissidents or people persecuted by repressive regimes.

How to use Tor

You have to go to the page Thor, and click on the icon of the corresponding operating system. Then the destination folder is selected, the package is installed and then the browser runs. Next you will see a window indicating that the user can connect and the connection is configured by pressing the Connect button.

The system integrates the DuckDuckGo search engine that is prepared to find .onion pages, the domain of the websites of this darknet. It is also possible to download Tor to Android. You download it from Google Play, press connect and in a few seconds you will be connected to this network.

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