Onionland
English
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[edit]Onionland
- (Internet slang) Those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.
- 2014, Mark Nichols, Darknet: Encrypted Ocean:
- Opening his laptop, he went over all of her sister's details: her contacts in the anonymous Tor Onionland where ip addresses were ghosts, and yet had managed to trace her using a simple javascript exploit.
- 2015, Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts, page 22:
- From a cultural perspective, phenomena such as Tor software that helps navigate Onionland will inevitably affect our sense of how threatening cyberweapons can be. Onionland is a sort of Old West Robber's Roost in the virtual landscape […]