Название: Casting Light on the Dark Web: A Guide for Safe Exploration
Автор: Matthew Beckstrom, Brady Lund
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Год: 2019
Страниц: 133
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), azw3, epub
Размер: 10.05 MB

Covers topics from what the dark web is, to how it works, to how you can use it, to some of the myths surrounding it.

Casting Light on the Dark Web: A Guide for Safe Exploration is an easy-to-read and comprehensive guide to understanding how the Dark Web works and why you should be using it! Readers will be led on a tour of this elusive technology from how to download the platform for personal or public use, to how it can best be utilized for finding information. This guide busts myths and informs readers, while remaining jargon-free and entertaining. Useful for people of all levels of internet knowledge and experience.

The book has theoretical aspects (well, kind of - not enough to bore you) and technical aspects (how to install and use the technology), but it focuses primarily on telling you what things are in a simple, approachable manner. In our minds, there are three natural divisions in the book: chapters 1-4 describe what the dark web is, its history, how it works; chapters 5-6 provide information on how to access the dark web and an index of sites to explore (with clear demarcations between sites that we recommend and those that have questionable content); and chapters 7-9 deal with issues and opportunities with the dark web and some big picture philosophical thinking. We have tried to create clear and descriptive chapter titles, but will also discuss briefly the content of each chapter here.

With this book we assume that all of our readers know absolutely nothing about the dark web. It is okay if you do - we think you will still get a lot out of this book—but we always hate books that start just one level above where we are, so that we kind of get it, but not really. By assuming you know nothing, we hope this problem is eliminated.

We hope that this book establishes a greater discussion of the dark web in the global society. It does not really matter what side of the issue you come down on; what matters is that we talk about the dark web while we have the opportunity and do not let it fall to obscurity or get completely overrun by illegal content that forever tarnishes its potential to bring benefit to the world. So give this book a read and then let someone else have a read and talk about it. Let’s start a critical discourse about whether we should protect this technology, police it, or allow it fall to obscurity. Do not let time decide for us!

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