{"id":433,"date":"2026-08-28T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:37:40","slug":"darknet-investigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/darknet-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Darknet Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This video walks through accessing the darknet via Tor and investigating Dread, a Reddit-style forum only reachable through onion addresses. I examined its structure, community roles, and content to answer whether it functions as a potential space for criminal behavior, concluding that while Dread itself isn&#8217;t a marketplace, it exists to support the people who use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Darknet Presentation\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxr3xOipsww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video walks through accessing the darknet via Tor and investigating Dread, a Reddit-style forum only reachable through onion addresses. I examined its structure, community roles, and content to answer whether it functions as a potential space for criminal behavior, concluding that while Dread itself isn&#8217;t a marketplace, it exists to support the people who&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/darknet-investigation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27457,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jjcybersec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}