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Anonymous 2025/05/14(Wed)18:42:16 No.143585 +

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The Failed Darknet That Was Doomed From The Start

A darknet is an encrypted or hidden network or area within the internet that requires special software or techniques in order to access. While they are usually created with the intention of offering free speech, circumventing content bans, and protecting journalists and whistleblowers, they attract every kind of criminal and malicious actor due to their location concealing and anonymization capabilities. They are also wealth-building attractions, as they open up new vectors of earning money online, and enable other people who generally have difficulty earning money, such as minors and felons, to have more financial opportunities without government oversight.

The overwhelming majority of people who get busted as a result of engaging in illegal activities on darknets are the result of user error; they made mistakes or had faulty OPSEC which led to their arrests. It is rarely the anonymizing software which protects them that fails. But sometimes, it does indeed happen.

While Tor and i2p have stood the test of time as being secure and anonymous networks as they have had minimal de-anonymizing exploits, the same cannot be said for all darknets. Particularily Freenet (now known as Hyphanet), which has many flaws and experienced a plethora of exploits that can deanonymize users. There are very good reasons as to why Freenet was never a big name in darknet culture and in the realm of online drug trafficking.

Freenet was created in the year 2000 with the intention of providing a peer-to-peer free speech and file sharing platform that is both anonymous and resistant to censorship. Much like other anonymity-centered networks, all user traffic through Freenet is encrypted and routed through a series of nodes. However, unlike Tor and i2p, every computer connected to the Freenet network acts as a node in some way, which enables the storing and transmission of encrypted data to and from other users on the network, which means that data can remain accessible when particular nodes become inaccessible (particularily those belong to users who initially uploaded the data). Website on the network are called “freesites”.

It offers three modes of connection: “opennet”, “darknet”, and “mixed”. When using opennet, the default mode in Freenet, users connect to arbitrary nodes on the network, whereas users connect only to selected nodes they trust in darknet mode. Mixed mode is where users connect to both random and trusted nodes.

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1 Anonymous 2025/05/14(Wed)19:17:55 No.143589 +

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>they open up new vectors of earning money online, and enable other people who generally have difficulty earning money, such as minors
lolis are earning money on the darknet by selling CP of themselves?

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2 Anonymous 2025/05/15(Thu)13:22:53 No.143664 +

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>>143589
lolis use their own pics to blackmail people with power unsure

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3 Anonymous 2025/05/15(Thu)13:34:13 No.143666 +

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That OP is all over the place. For example, it's claiming hashes are vulnerable to "dictionary attacks" but then explains an enumeration attack instead (totally different thing, the former implying rainbow table approaches instead, which is not even relevant here at all), and then simultaneously complains about key semantic closeness, even though it has precisely nothing to do with anything (and would improve enumeration attack risks).

Not to mention that most of the details in the OP are simply wrong in general.

Explain yourself, OP angry

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4 Anonymous 2025/05/15(Thu)17:56:06 No.143686 +

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>>143585
>dictionary attacks
>possibility of collisions
>accidentally access or decrypt the wrong content
Is it from "Pastor's warning of evils of Information Superhighway"?

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5 Anonymous 2025/05/15(Thu)17:58:38 No.143687 +

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But seriously, OP seems to be a pile of LLM drivel.

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