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I2P Intro: According to Wikipedia, The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer that allows for  peer to peer communication via encrypting the user’s traffic and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. The software that implements this layer is called an “I2P router” and a computer running I2P is called an “I2P node“. I2P is free and open source. I2P can be run both on Pc as well as android, here is a screeshot of I2P running on android device. Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I2PAndroid-console-0.9.20.png While tor lets you being anonymous and open sites hosted either publicly or dark sites ( with .onion) I2P’s focus on the other hand is creating its own internal internet is that the network isn’t accessible from a regular computer. By installing the requisite I2P software, your computer can join I2P and begin routing traffic, just like a Tor middle relay as it creat...

Curiosity towards hidden and unknown things is natural to people. For the general folks, Internet is existence of websites indexed via popular search engines like Google, however the Deep Dark web is beyond the traditional search engines which are hidden and inaccessible through standard web browsers. It is an interesting fact to know that hardly only 4% of the internet is visible to the common people. That makes 96% of the internet is made up of “The Deep Web”! The Deep Web hosts the “Dark Web,” a series of networks called “darknets” that overlay the public Internet but require specific software or authorization to access. As users can operate Darknets anonymously, it’s not hard to guess that these are the abode of various criminal activities. In fact, Darknet hosts a worldwide marketplace of illicit goods and services. Top darkweb searches include child pornography followed by drug dealing, software hacking, currency counterfeit, stolen information from sensitive sources, w...