darknet
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- overlay network
- Part of
- Internet
- Image
- Deep web, dark web, and darknet as segments of the Internet.png
- Has use
- Internet filter
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- Commons category
- Darknet
- hashtag
- Darknet
- used by
- underground culture
- different from
- Dark web
- inception
- 1970-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Anonymity networks
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Terminology
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A darknet or dark net is an overlay network within the Internet that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, and often uses a unique customized communication protocol. Two typical darknet types are social networks (usually used for file hosting with a peer-to-peer connection), and anonymity proxy networks such as Tor via an anonymized series of connections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “darknet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.