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After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: Over the weekend, researcher Scot Terban came across the new website of Al-Hayat Media Center, the media division of Daesh (aka ISIS/ISIL), in a post on Shamikh forum (a known jihadi bulletin board), 'someone had posted the new address and instructions for reaching it,' writes CSO's Steve Ragan. The website hosts the usual anti-Western iconography, as well as songs (Nasheeds) and poems for mujahids in various locations. Terban has mirrored the website and its files; he says he plans to publish more details in the coming days. 'Over the years, there have been several claims made that Daesh had propaganda and recruitment hubs on the Darknet, but no one has ever published proof of those claims or explored how the propaganda machine operates in public,' says Ragan.

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  1. Re:darknet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the other side of the internet.

    You know the internet, the stuff you can see? Websites, google, Perez Hilton, reddit? That's the side of the internet that is facing us at all times.

    The other side is facing away at all times and is permanently in shadow.

  2. Re:darknet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the same as the Deep Web. Haven't you seen CSI Cyber?

  3. Spelling fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    you misspelled Burkanet

  4. Re:darknet? by Stephen+Chadfield · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other side is facing away at all times and is permanently in shadow.

    Usenet?

  5. Re:darknet? by ls671 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi,
    Click Ctrl riight-shift alt D on your keyboard.

    A popup will appear asking you to confirm that you want to enter the dark-net.

    Click OK. You are now on the darknet. It is like a second kind of Internet. This functionality is not publicized to much and more or less kept secret to protect the children.

    P.S. You need recent browser and OS versions in order to access it since the TCP stack had to be adapted for the darknet. It uses a special bit in the TCP header.

    --
    Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.