Название: Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P
Автор: Robert W. Gehl, Laura DeNardis, Michael Zimmer PhD
Издательство: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262038269
Год: 2018
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), djvu
Размер: 10.19 MB
An exploration of the Dark Web?websites accessible only with special routing software?that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P. The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out in Weaving the Dark Web, for each of these illegitimate uses, there are other, legitimate ones: the New York Times's anonymous whistleblowing system, for example, and the use of encryption by political dissidents. Defining the Dark Web straightforwardly as websites that can be accessed only with special routing software, and noting the frequent use of “legitimate” and its variations by users, journalists, and law enforcement to describe Dark Web practices (judging them “legit” or “sh!t”), Gehl uses the concept of legitimacy as a window into the Dark Web. He does so by examining the history of three Dark Web systems: Freenet, Tor, and I2P.