ALICE can i please trade one too ? FC 117816009165 Amonix <| sep |> The dark web is more than just tor . It ' s any non publically accessible data . Banking , private data , email routing , these sorts of things make up most of the darknet , and in fact the darknet makes up about 80 % of the data transfer over the internet . You can ' t just shut it down . Tor essentially works by using the darknet to leverage routes for your data that make it really hard to figure out the origin . You can look up onion routing for more info . Tor was originally created by the military , but they moved to less distributed communication networks . Tor has a lot of value for people in censorship heavy regimes , reporters to ensure anonymous contact and other things like that . It also contains lots of illegal shit . Tor is actually totally compromised to the average user at this point . The exit nodes are pretty much all FBI or similar agency controlled , and the exit node is the main attack vector . They ' re trying to stamp it out , but it won ' t really matter in the end , the sites that don ' t get found will move on to other methods as they crop up .