Security Sidebar: Is Tor No Longer Safe?
The "Dark Web" (sometimes called the "Dark Net") is a collection of thousands of websites that use anonymity tools (like Tor or I2P) to hide their IP address and physical location. These websites ar...
Published Nov 26, 2014
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Great question, ricky! As you know, most people use Tor to navigate the deep web, and F5 definitely knows all the Tor exit nodes in the world. The ASM is specifically configured to disallow any traffic from any Tor exit node (but that can be changed by your ASM admin if you want). So, while the ASM doesn't specifically have every deep web ip address loaded, it does keep an eye on traffic coming from those addresses based on Tor exit nodes. Hope this helps!