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Published: 2014-11-17
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuZJVpNWR4
the term darknet was coined in the seventies and it was meant as a way to describe networks isolated from arpanet arpanet eventually became the commercial internet run by the private telecoms really stay Harper was created by the US department of defense and it was created to share data of other projects and research laboratories with the universities for those of you familiar with networking it was the
first packet switching network which is the %HESITATION foundation to modern networking now we're not talking about the worldwide web here that didn't show up until nineteen ninety when Tim Berners Lee set up the first %HESITATION web server at CERN the internet is a massive piece of hardware it enables communication instantly on a global scale and in fact there are hundreds of cables spanning the ocean along
with %HESITATION ground to satellite communication and radio to radio communication just make this thing work I like to tell people I circumnavigated the globe once and I start with that because it sounds a lot cooler than it actually is what I did was set up a bunch of %HESITATION virtual servers around the world running neck cat and I a clone the left computer's hard drive to
the right computer by streaming the data through the tunnel and it's so awesome that that works at all but I feel like people have ruin this for us they've ruined it with spying and surveillance and there's a constant need to watch everything we do so a lot of us are scared to %HESITATION read a certain page on the internet or maybe download a publication that's a
little too leftist or rightist in content and my hope is dark that's help solve this problem so I'm gonna explore and share couple if you here today when it comes to darkness there are a couple different types historically they are meant to be private file sharing networks but these days there dynamic pages %HESITATION rich with %HESITATION media content and pictures and videos so there RT familiar
to us with dark nets summer peer to peer summer centralized %HESITATION but most are going for a decentralized model and we're looking for specific types of philosophy when we consider whether or not our network is a dark night we're looking for takedown resistance that is the best government or anyone else for that matter can't just come in unplug the thing and watch it disappear %HESITATION were
looking for anonymity so nobody knows who's reading uploading or creating content and a content richness because if there's nothing to see or read or all socks then really what's the point of and having a dark net turns out the pretty useful and they've been used for political safe haven journalism piracy %HESITATION darker black markets but most importantly at least to me privacy you've all heard of
the Silk Road I'm sure well the Silk Road was running on %HESITATION network known as Tor door is a node based decentralized anonymity network is initially research by the US naval research laboratory and has been since handed over to a five oh one C. three known as the Tor project around eighty percent of their budget still comes from the US government and the rest of it
from private donors and even other governments four made its way into the public's hands because that's the only way it could work it would be completely pointless every request the navy wanted to make anonymously came from a navy control network so I like to think that they created Kansas city show where they just drop this thing into the public's hands and everybody went Buck wild with
it so while everybody's looking left a headlines about the Silk Road and drugs and guns and all the bad stuff the navy's going right blowing shit up Tor works by having relay and exit notes I know it is just a computer running toward software and a relay node takes a request peels off a layer of encryption and hands it off to the next note in the
route still encrypted an exit node takes a now unencrypted request when it reaches %HESITATION through the end of the route and makes the call to Google dot com or whatever you're trying to access and the response comes back and everything happens in reverse until the content is displayed in the Tor browser tour is cool because it lets you browse the normal internet along with these things
called hidden services unlike other darknet like software where you pretty much just have what the network provides to people what people can upload and what not %HESITATION hidden services are like normal websites there dynamic in nature but you access them with a dot onion address and that the dawning in your dress is like a normal domain but less memorable because it's a bunch of %HESITATION random
characters followed by don and so you don't really just say Hey I'm gonna go to X. Y. Z. four zero nine dawn Anya and you're just gonna use a search service and find it so that could be heard a thing these sites are really the %HESITATION the darkness I did tour and are often referred to as %HESITATION deep so we're gonna exploratory and here's the first
screen you get when you watch the Tor browser %HESITATION the Tor browser comes in the Tor browser bundle and it's a nice neat package and I love that they did this because nobody's going to use this stuff is if it's hard this is something familiar this is Firefox but Chyna configured in a way to use to this the first screen get its green it says were
connected to the Tor network and see if it was red you should stop right there because you're not anonymous you're gonna do some stupid trust me you're gonna do something stupid this is an example of me using a service call DuckDuckGo a lot of you have probably started to hear about this because it's an it's an alternative to Google that's kind of gaining popularity and I
am searching for tales and tales is a incognito live system so it runs torrent is very relevant here I'm getting to the download page and I'm going to download tales on tour so nobody knows I'm telling tales here's an example of the Washington post's secure job secure drops are these things that news organizations are starting to add to their websites that allow people to connected for
go to an onion address and %HESITATION deliver some papers maybe some Intel to journalists here's an example of a dot onion search service you search for a term ands you get the results back so here I search for black market and I've clicked on a link I put this in here because this is a good example of things not being taken down on toward yes the
Silk Road got taken down but it's very rare and it was their own faults so here you can spend big point on assault weapons and here's some of the ways that they can steal it here's a social network %HESITATION it's a really boring salsa network don't get excited but I put this in here because the %HESITATION though the registration page is really interesting specifically says no
child porn no porn no hate speech and no commercial activities and this is a great example of the community that you get on tour they want privacy and there's a lot of trying to keep the thing clean and safe for people to use here's an example me logging in there's a stream and I put this in here because this is the first question I get whenever
I talk about the deep web to somebody nay say can I buy hit man and I'm like I'm showing you the thing that makes you anonymous on the internet and you ask me about a hit man that's the first thing you ask here's %HESITATION apex wins announcing their out their new album on hidden service here's an example of something you should not be doing on tour
and that's Facebook and it's because their terms of service are very anti pseudonym so it's just inherently about idea same with linkedin entice you know them you are who you you are who you legally are %HESITATION therefore you should not be using an anonymous and anonymous ation service and here's something that's maybe okay and that's where I see a lot of people using Twitter anonymously I
haven't read the terms of service some not sure if that's okay or not tour is great I %HESITATION my experience with tour has been very pleasant the the network is actually pretty fast contrary to popular belief %HESITATION and a lot of people use it enters known use it %HESITATION to upload documents to journalists about the NSA files and %HESITATION it was used during the Arab spring
in two thousand eleven %HESITATION Iran protests I also looked it freenet free that is a %HESITATION decentralized peer to peer file sharing networks %HESITATION every year it's really it's similar to bit torrent but everything's encrypted so %HESITATION it's really hard to detect for net traffic and you share your hard drive space and some band with with the network and it basically stores things on your hard
drive they're encrypted so you're not really held accountable for your serving up to the network and you can be serving some pretty shocking they have these things all free sites and flog they are %HESITATION static they're not dynamic so people up to re upload content over and over and over and so things can go on a date last longer than I thought it was like two
thousand three don't take a look at free net it's %HESITATION here's the the first thing you see when you first install it and I don't like that because it's a set up screen and nobody likes that nobody likes that screens here's another set up screen more set up now I have to choose which security mode you one you like Iowa high security but I have no
friends using freenet his browser advisory %HESITATION telling you not to browse and non incognito mode data store size band with limits more set up it's just so and I hear the first page that you get to you confusing already and here's an index page finally imminent index page and I scroll through this thing and I can't find anything that I want so I get another index
page I download this one and now I have a virus on my computer here's an index paid that that page that's is offering me a bunch of porn here's a cleaned up index page off finally I found the link them looking Freda is a slow and hard to use I put it in here because it's a a good example of a different type of dark net
%HESITATION it's harder to use and I don't think it's a better the right direction %HESITATION but it exists how many of you read when external bling bling the couple hands you're all extremists dark nets are very important and have played an important role and uprisings journalism overseas and in states of political political turmoil they're pretty useful %HESITATION they became especially useful after the seven weeks of
two thousand thirteen specifically because of what the what the files contained %HESITATION and that is according to the X. key score system when external and Boeing Boeing or %HESITATION extremist forums and will make you a target for surveillance if you visit certain links of the sites so it's safe to say and if you're unfamiliar with excuse for them as a program designed to %HESITATION help analysts
picked targets for surveillance and by searching for key words such as %HESITATION emails email body content other types of data collected as part of its %HESITATION broad collection activities so it's safe to say that I do a lot of reading on toward and it's because I don't know about you all I don't want to feel like I've done something wrong doing these and I just don't
feel judged in general on the internet so I hope this got you as excited as I am about dark nights in the deep web and there's a lot more than this to learn and explore so well but I'll leave you with this dark that's are an important piece the surviving surveillance state and the past year and a half of made it very clear that the entire
