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Dark Web Mapping Reveals That Half of the Content Is Legal (helpnetsecurity.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Cyber threat intelligence firm Intelliagg and dark net indexing company Darksum have released the results of their efforts to map the dark web (actually, only the Tor network). They discovered that Tor network is much smaller than commonly thought, and that around 68% of the sites analyzed can be classified as illegal under UK and US law. In related news, a recent poll found that the vast majority of people want a ban on the dark net.
Well that's part of the problem. As with the bigger issues of encryption, e.g. Apple vs. FBI, if one "good guy" government can crack it, then so can the bad guys, whom it was designed to fight.
Does anybody think Russia and China, at a minimum, can't muster the technological and financial oomph to get the same job done as the NSA/FBI?
This on top of things they also do, like the US, like phone metadata and Eye in the Sky. Sometimes they even buy the software for analysis from western companies.
If we can do it for good guy reasons, so can they, and as far as I am concerned, this is all about stopping the building of these tools to begin with, to avoid the 1984 "Imagine a boot stepping on a human face...forever."
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I am offended at the word "Dark". It needs to be called the "Web Of Color".
Shouldn't it be UK OR US law? Since no person is going to be under both jurisdictions at the same time?
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
They don't want to ban it for YOUR safety, they want to ban it for THEIRS.
I'm just sayin'...
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
About 68% of criminal activity goes unprosecuted because criminals invoke their constitutional rights. It would be so much easier if they didn't have those rights. So lets let the 32% of people who are saved by constitutional rights hang in the wind.
That's effectively what you are saying when you want to prevent the 32% of sites that are used by whistleblowers, journalists, resistance fighters and dissidents from having a platform that is safe to communicate.
Shouldn't it be UK OR US law? Since no person is going to be under both jurisdictions at the same time?
Then it should be UK XOR US law.