On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is sort of a followup to the "Venting about forums.debian.net", but > somewhat different and different enough that I thought I should start a new > thread. > > > > I'll ask my question, then give some background afterwards: > > > > I wonder if a new more private Internet could be created on top of the > existing Internet maybe where all participants communicate by VPN (or maybe > all sites are encrypted (or have encrypted sections after an unencrypted > portal). > > > > I thought about (and quickly discarded) the idea that a new Internet could be > created, with all necessary physical and non-physical infrastructure from > which bad actors could simply be excluded. (Or kicked out if they are found > to be bad actors.) > > > > I'm wondering if, as an alternative to that, some sort of private encrypted > network could be created? > > > > Maybe some hosting providers would have to adapt by encrypting most of their > content (with some sort of unencrypted "portals" would be available to sign > up to access the encrypted content). > > > > On further thinking (not much :-( , I guess such a thing would quickly run > into the same problems (of bad actors doing various things). > > > > Just wanted to put this out there -- maybe somebody has a similar (or not so > similar) idea that might help. > > > > Aside: I don't know much about the dark web (other than that it exists) -- is > that in any way similar to this or a possible aid to solving the problem?
Tor onion services, <https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/>. Formerly known as Tor Hidden Services. Jeff
