The internet is, for most of us a place where we shop, interact with other like-minded individuals via social media and pursue a variety of other activities. We use search engines such as Google and even when our browser’s cookies are cleared they can, by a person with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of computers be restored enabling browsing habits to be ascertained.
In his book “The Dark Net”, Jamie Bartlett deals with the so-called dark net, a world in which anything is possible, however malign the intentions of the user. Guns, child pornography, all are available to those who know how to navigate the Dark Web.
Apart from criminals the Dark Web is also used by political dissidents wishing to avoid the attentions of authoritarian regimes. It is, in short the wild west of the internet. The Dark Web is, in brief a tool which can be employed for good or evil and is, like all technology neither good or bad, dependent as it is on the motivations of those who avail themselves of it.
For Bartlett’s book visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dark-Net-Jamie-Bartlett-ebook/dp/B00K0M6JQC
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Yes, lift the rock and all sorts of interesting creatures crawl out. Google proxy and services such as proxify.com will come up, which allow the user to surf the web anonomously. Someone in the US can appear to be in the UK so, a website owner doesn’t know where the surfer is really based. Proxify is a perfectly legal company and states that it’s services should not be used for anything illegal and is not part of the dark web. However there is a much blacker side to the world wide web. Thanks for your comment. Kevin NB; Proxify is, I understand used by disidents in authoritarian regimes to circumvent censorship.
Those are the people who worry me. Everything good is used to bad advantages. Someone’s always looking for an angle for anything new. 😦