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Hands-On Dark Web Analysis
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Hands-On Dark Web Analysis

by Sion Retzkin
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
210 pages
4h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Linux Distributions

Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and CentOS are just a few of the more common Linux distributions out there that you can use for everyday use or, in the context of this book, to install the Tor browser on it and access the Deep Web.

The levels of privacy and anonymity you want to reach are the main factors in choosing an OS for Deep Web browsing. There are several security-dedicated Linux-based OSes out there, which we will discuss later in the book.

For now, let's talk a little about Linux (and what a distribution is).

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, in 1991. In those days, Unix-like systems were the craze, but they were either incompatible with most PCs, or too expensive.

Linux started ...

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ISBN: 9781789133363