Power/freedom on the dark web: A digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network

Power/freedom on the dark web: A digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network

This essay is an early ethnographic exploration of the Dark Web Social Network (DWSN), a social networking site only accessible to Web browsers equipped with The Onion Router. The central claim of this essay is that the DWSN is an experiment in power/freedom, an attempt to simultaneously trace, deploy, and overcome the historical conditions in which it finds itself: the generic constraints and ...

The Dark Web

The internet's ability to leap borders, thwart censorship and preserve anonymity is making it a crucial tool in recruiting jihadists. Discontented western Muslim youth, even in Australia, are ripe for the message of hate of the cyber imams. I T'S A FORMIDABLE blockade: 5000 armed police and troops, 5km of security fencing, closed-circuit TV surveillance and backup muscle including army helicopt...

Breaking CAPTCHAs on the Dark Web

On the Dark Web, several websites inhibit automated scraping attempts by employing CAPTCHAs. Scraping important content from a website is possible if these CAPTCHAs are solved by a web scraper. For this purpose, a Machine Learning tool is used, TensorFlow and an Optical Character Recognition tool, Tesseract to solve simple CAPTCHAs. Two sets of CATPCHAs, which are also used on some Dark Web web...

The Dark Side of the Semantic Web

Dark Web Patterns

The Internet now provides a myriad of new ways to interact that eliminate physical distance, time, and even culture and language as factors affecting the development, maintenance, evolution, and even power of social networks. In these new social spaces, concepts such as privacy, property rights, and social mores that have developed over thousands of years in physical societies are being vetted ...