The aim was to produce a portal site where dissidents of oppressive regimes can convey their strife to the US government anonymously, which is great and all very well, until the portal site became a hotbed of criminal action called The Dark Web. The Dark Web is a network of clandestine sites that are not easily accessible to your typical web visitor.

The way Works the Onion Router
The Onion Router’s name competently describes the way the network operates and the way that it offers (partial) anonymity to its users.

When using The Onion Router to browse the Web requests and all activities filter through three distinct nodes; the passing of messages, from one node to the next, functions much like runners passing a baton in a relay race.

Each runner passes the baton to another runner, but does not have any interaction together with the following runner after that although in a. Likewise, the three nodes interact with one another in a way that is similar, so the third and first node never socialize, and never know of the other.

The three nodes are computers that their operators have offered to route requests through The Onion Router. Each request is encrypted in a sense that resembles an onion’s layers – each node is visibile to the computer where the request will later be forwarded to that supplied the request as well as the computer.