To monitor extremist forums for information relating to protests (both the pre-planning and the aftermath – where people often brag about what they have done). To detect illegal activity (sales of drugs, stolen credit cards etc.). To track user activity across one or multiple forums or message boards. To be alerted when your company is being mentioned on dark web forums or message boards. The system I have developed, AlterTor, allows for the indexing of Onion Services and may assist in tracking illegal activity across the Tor network.ĪlerTor is an open source content change detection and notification service that has been developed to specifically monitor Tor-based Onion Services (the dark web) for particular keywords.ĪlerTor can be used in a number of different ways:

Millanta explains how this technology works and writes as follows from this point forward… AlerTorĪlerTor was created by Luke Millanta, a Sydney-based software developer, esports entrepreneur, and the current chief technology officer at Hive Gaming. Due to these restrictions, the dark web is not indexed by web search engines/content change and detection services like Google/Google Alerts. To access these sites, one simply needs to download Tor, open the Tor browser and enter the domain name (.onion domain – similar to. Some examples of Onion Services hosting illegal content include the Silk Road, Agora, and the Tor Carding Forum.

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