Security News > 2021 > January > Europol announces bust of “world’s biggest” dark web marketplace
As you can imagine, it operated on the so-called dark web, and you'd have needed the Tor browser to access it, using a special web address ending in.
As it happens, the epithet dark in the word dark web isn't a metaphorical reference implying that everything on the dark web is evil and dystopian.
As a result, some dark web sites are pretty much operated in plain sight - their onion addresses are widely known and publicised on the regular web, along with descriptions of what the site is for and what you can buy if you visit.
So it's no surprise that some dark web sites are dark in both the literal and metaphorical sense.
Despite all the encryption and redirection Tor's anonymity and unilluminated invisibility only go so far, meaning that dark web operators sometimes do get caught and servers do get taken offline.
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