Watch DARPA Artificial Intelligence Search For Crime On the "Dark Web"

An anonymous reader shares this bit of news from DARPA. "Of late, DARPA has shown a growing interest in open sourcing its technology, even if its most terrifying creations, like army robot wildcats designed to reach speeds of 50Mph, are understandably kept private. In a week’s time, the wider world will be able to tinker with components of the military research body’s in-development search tool for the dark web. The Memex technology, named after an mechanical mnemonic dreamt up just as the Second World War was coming to a close, has already been put to use by a number of law enforcement agencies, who are looking to counter crime taking place on networks like Tor, where Hidden Services are protected by the privacy-enhancing, encrypted hosting, often for good, often for bad. In its first year, the focus at Memex has been on tracking human trafficking, but the project's scope stretches considerably wider."

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I think it's bloody insulting

[Anonymous Coward]

I spent a large part of my time in university studying the Memex and I find it absolutely insulting that this technology is being kept behind the curtain of classified intelligence technology when it's a decades-old invention intended to make everyone's life easier. Meanwhile any researchers that want to be involved have to make the ethical leap of turning their back on their friends, family and hometown so they can do the bidding of a dark shadow government organization.