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The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access. [1]

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ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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All Things Vice

All Things Vice is a blog run by Australian journalist Eileen Ormsby about news in the dark web.

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Anonymous (group)

Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist group that is widely known for its various DDOS cyber attacks against several governments, government institutions & government agencies, corporations, and the Church of Scientology.

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Artist collective

An artist collective is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management, towards shared aims.

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Assassination market

An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they "guess" the date accurately.

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Backdoor (computing)

A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer system, a product, or an embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment, e.g. as part of a cryptosystem, an algorithm, a chipset, or a "homunculus computer" (such as that as found in Intel's AMT technology).

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin (₿) is the world's first cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Botnet

A botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots.

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Carding (fraud)

Carding is a term describing the trafficking of credit card, bank account and other personal information online as well as related fraud services.

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Child pornography

Child pornography is pornography that exploits children for sexual stimulation.

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Cicada 3301

Cicada 3301 is a nickname given to an organization that on three occasions has posted a set of puzzles to possibly recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public.

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Clearnet (networking)

Clearnet is a term typically referring to the unencrypted, or non-darknet, non-Tor internet.

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Computer security

Cybersecurity, computer security or IT security is the protection of computer systems from theft of or damage to their hardware, software or electronic data, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

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Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.

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Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank, is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress.

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Contract killing

Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Crime forum

A crime forum is a generic term for an internet forum specialising in computer crime and Internet fraud activities such as hacking or spamming.

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Crush fetish

A crush fetish is a fetish and a paraphilia in which one is sexually aroused when someone crushes objects, food, and sometimes small animals (frequently insects) with their body, usually under their foot, or when crushed oneself.

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Cryptocurrency exchange

Cryptocurrency exchange, Crypto exchange or digital currency exchange (DCE) is a businesses that allow customers to trade cryptocurrencies or digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money, or different digital currencies.

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Cryptocurrency tumbler

Cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service is a service offered to mix potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source.

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Dark0de

dark0de a.k.a. Darkode, is a cybercrime forum and black marketplace described by Europol as "the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum to date".

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Darknet

A darknet (or dark net) is a portion of routed, allocated IP space not running any services.

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Darknet market

A darknet market or cryptomarket is a commercial website on the web that operates via darknets such as Tor or I2P.

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Deep web

The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search engines for any reason.

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Deep Web (film)

Deep Web is a 2015 documentary film directed by Alex Winter, chronicling events surrounding Silk Road, bitcoin and politics of the dark web.

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DeepDotWeb

DeepDotWeb is a news site dedicated to events in and surrounding the dark web featuring in-depth interviews and reviews about darknet markets, Tor hidden services, legal actions, privacy, bitcoin and related news.

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Demos (UK think tank)

Demos is a think tank based in the United Kingdom with a cross-party political viewpoint.

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Doxing

Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents) or doxxing is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifiable information (especially personally identifiable information) about an individual or organization.

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E-commerce

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet.

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ESSEC Business School

ESSEC Business School is an international higher education institution located in France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense in the Paris area), Singapore and Morocco.

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Exploit (computer security)

An exploit (from the English verb to exploit, meaning "to use something to one’s own advantage") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized).

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Extortion

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fluoxetine

Fluoxetine, also known by trade names Prozac and Sarafem, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.

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Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Freenet

Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication.

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Friend-to-friend

A friend-to-friend (or F2F) computer network is a type of peer-to-peer network in which users only make direct connections with people they know.

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Ghost Security

Ghost Security, also known as GhostSec, is a self-described "vigilante" group that was formed to attack ISIS websites that promote Islamic extremism.

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Government Communications Headquarters

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.

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Grams (search)

Grams was a search engine for Tor based darknet markets launched in April 2014, and closed in December 2017.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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I2P

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer that allows for censorship-resistant, peer to peer communication.

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Indie game

An independent video game, or an indie game, is a video game that is often created without the financial support of a publisher, although some games funded by a publisher are still considered "indie".

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Interpersonal relationship

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.

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Interpol

The International Criminal Police Organization (Organisation internationale de police criminelle; ICPO-INTERPOL), more commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates international police cooperation.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

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Jamie Bartlett (journalist)

Jamie Bartlett is an author and tech blogger for The Spectator and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos in conjunction with The University of Sussex.

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Joint Operations Cell

Joint Operations Cell is a unit of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British intelligence agency, and the National Crime Agency (NCA), a United Kingdom national law enforcement agency.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Law enforcement

Law enforcement is any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society.

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List of Schedule I drugs (US)

This is the list of Schedule I drugs as defined by the United States Controlled Substances Act.

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List of Tor hidden services

This is an alphabetized list of notable.onion hidden services accessible through the Tor anonymity network.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.

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Mazafaka (hacker group)

Mazafaka is a financial motivated hacker group.

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Mirror website

Mirror websites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.

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National Crime Agency

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom.

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News agency

A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters.

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November 2015 Paris attacks

The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that occurred on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.

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Onion routing

Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network.

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Operation Onymous

Operation Onymous was an international law enforcement operation targeting darknet markets and other hidden services operating on the Tor network.

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Overlay network

An overlay network is a computer network that is built on top of another network.

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Pastebin

A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content hosting service where users can store plain text, e.g. to source code snippets for code review via Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like cheques and money orders.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Phishing

Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

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ProPublica

ProPublica is an American nonprofit organization based in New York City.

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Rawti Shax

Rawti Shax or Didi Nwe (ڕەوتی شاخ) ("new course" or "towards the mountain") is a Kurdish dark web-based offshoot of the Kurdish jihadist group Ansar al-Islam.

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Recorded Future

Recorded Future is an internet technology company founded in 2009, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, and Gothenburg, Sweden, specializing in real-time threat intelligence.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Revenge porn

Revenge porn or revenge pornography is the distribution of sexually explicit images or video of individuals without their consent.

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Riffle (anonymity network)

Riffle is an anonymity network developed at MIT, that employs a verifiable shuffle and is said to be ten times faster than an onion-based network.

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Roger Dingledine

Roger Dingledine is an MIT-educated American computer scientist known for having co-founded Tor Project.

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Ross Ulbricht

Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American former drug trafficker and darknet market operator, best known for creating and running the Silk Road website from 2011 until his arrest in 2013.

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Sad Satan

Sad Satan is a PC game built with the Terror Engine, first reported on the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner on June 15, 2015.

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Search engine indexing

Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who seeks to breach defenses and exploit weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Silk Road (marketplace)

Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs.

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Snuff film

A snuff film, or snuff movie, is "a movie in a purported genre of movies in which a person is actually murdered or commits suicide".

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Hidden Wiki

The Hidden Wiki is the name of several censorship-resistant wikis operating as Tor hidden services that anyone can anonymously edit after registering on the site.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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TheRealDeal

TheRealDeal was a darknet website and a part of the cyber-arms industry reported to be selling code and zero-day software exploits.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Tor (anonymity network)

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication.

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Trojan horse (computing)

In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna.

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University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth is a public university in the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

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University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England.

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Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Web directory

A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites.

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Web search engine

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

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Whistleblower

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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XDedic

xDedic is a Russian language crime forum and marketplace.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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.onion

.onion is a special-use top level domain suffix designating an anonymous hidden service reachable via the Tor network.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web

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