[tor-talk] Terminology: Deep v Dark Web

Katya Titov kattitov at yandex.com
Mon Jan 27 21:52:25 UTC 2014


Parity Boy:
> @Katya
> 
> From my own perspective, a network can be considered "overlay" if
> some or all of the nodes perform a relay and/or routing function via
> server-to-server or peer-to-peer communications.
> 
> Obvious candidates include Tor, I2P and various VPN implementations,
> as well as IRC.  Less obvious ones might include SMTP (servers),
> Jabber (servers), VoIP (Skype and SIP servers yes,
> TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Mumble no).
> 
> OpenNap used server-to-server communications to fan out searches to
> other OpenNap servers. Not sure if BitTorrent can be considered a
> network in the truest sense.
> 
> Just my 2 cents. :)

Thanks, good suggestions, some of these are already in the article.
-- 
kat


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