Tens of thousands of paedophiles are using the dark net to circulate images of sexual abuse, according to a report by the BBC. The National Crime Agency said that abusers were increasingly turning to encryption software to maintain anonymity. The dark net is a hidden part of the Internet which can only be accessed by special software, one of the most popular of which is the TorBrowser. This enables people to use Tor, an “onion-routing” system, which bounces encrypted data through several randomly selected servers on the network, making a PC’s net address untraceable. Paedophiles are using the TorBrowser to access … Continue reading Paedophile use of dark net increases for child abuse images