1. Blacksec

    Onion Services Explained 2026: How a .onion Actually Works

    Hey hackers - onion services solve a strange problem: publishing an endpoint on a network that refuses to have an address book, a DNS root, or anyone in charge of naming. These onion services run without DNS, without a registrar, without a certificate authority - the key pair is the name, and...
  2. Blacksec

    Deep Web vs Dark Web 2026: The Three-Layer Model Explained

    Hey hackers - the deep web vs dark web argument keeps resurfacing because two different axes got glued into one phrase. Depth measures what crawlers are allowed to index. Darkness measures whether endpoints can identify each other. They answer different questions, they move independently, and...