The Future of the Dark Web

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Bottom Line:

The dark web has long been a place where stolen personal data is bought and sold in staggering numbers, criminals run lucrative drug and pornographic businesses and terrorists have found relatively safe territory from which to organize and communicate.  But the future of the dark web may look different as less-sophisticated Internet users become more savvy to the non-criminal benefits of operating with greater privacy.

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