The dark web: what it is, how it works, and why it's not going away 2014 saw the continued growth of the dark web, a collection of underground websites that allow people to engage in often-illegal activities beyond the reach of law enforcement. Here's what the dark web is, how it works, and why it's not going away any time soon. What is the dark web? The dark web is a general term for the seedier corners of the web, where people can interact online without worrying about the watchful eye of the authorities. People use the dark web for a variety of purposes: buying and selling drugs, discussing hacking techniques and selling hacking services, trading child pornography, and so forth. It's important to remember that the technologies used to facilitate "dark web" activities aren't inherently good or bad. What's Tor? (Jussi Mononen) Tor, which stands for "the onion router," is a technology that allows people to browse the web and access online services without revealing their identities. While Tor has many illicit uses, it also has a lot of legitimate ones.
The Creepy New Wave of the Internet by Sue Halpern The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin Palgrave Macmillan, 356 pp., $28.00 Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose Scribner, 304 pp., $28.00 Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, with a foreword by Marc Benioff Patrick Brewster, 225 pp., $14.45 (paper) More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook by Jim Dwyer Viking, 374 pp., $27.95 Every day a piece of computer code is sent to me by e-mail from a website to which I subscribe called IFTTT. Welcome to the beginning of what is being touted as the Internet’s next wave by technologists, investment bankers, research organizations, and the companies that stand to rake in some of an estimated $14.4 trillion by 2022—what they call the Internet of Things (IoT). And then there is the creepiness factor.
The Future of the Web Is as Much About Psychology as Technology Even the most forward-thinking futurist would find it near-impossible to imagine with any great confidence what the World Wide Web will look like in 2050. Thirty-five years into the future seems like an unfathomably long view when technology is advancing at various exponential rates. Only 25 years ago, the web didn’t exist at all. That’s the task a group of delegates from various tech companies (plus a token futurist in the form of Book of the Future’s Tom Cheesewright) set themselves to at a roundtable discussion in London this morning. The event was a precursor to the IP Expo Europe next month, at which web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee will share some of his own thoughts on the matter. Dan Simmons from BBC Click, who chaired the discussion, attempted to set the scene for a potential vision of technology in 2050. Human beings are not very good at open-endedness; we like to compartmentalise things into small chunks. Of course, that’s already a problem here in 2014.
The reluctant king of the hidden internet – Henry Farrell The Hidden Wiki holds the keys to a secret internet. To reach it, you need a special browser that can access ‘Tor Hidden Services’ – websites that have chosen to obscure their physical location. But even this browser isn’t enough. Like the Isla de Muerta in the film Pirates of the Caribbean, the landmarks of this hidden internet can be discovered only by those who already know where they are. Sites such as the Hidden Wiki provide unreliable treasure maps. Popular now The appeal of ISIS isn’t so far from that of Tolkien How bad experiences in childhood lead to adult illness Was the evolution of our species inevitable or a matter of luck? This hidden internet is a product of debates among technology-obsessed libertarians in the 1990s. Plans for cryptographic currencies led to the invention of Bitcoin, while mix networks culminated in Tor. Like the pirate republics of the 18th century, this virtual underworld mingles liberty and vice. Daily Weekly This creates a problem for all parties.
Can the Internet Be Archived? - The New Yorker Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 took off from Amsterdam at 10:31 A.M. G.M.T. on July 17, 2014, for a twelve-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. Not much more than three hours later, the plane, a Boeing 777, crashed in a field outside Donetsk, Ukraine. All two hundred and ninety-eight people on board were killed. The plane’s last radio contact was at 1:20 P.M. Two weeks before the crash, Anatol Shmelev, the curator of the Russia and Eurasia collection at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford, had submitted to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in California, a list of Ukrainian and Russian Web sites and blogs that ought to be recorded as part of the archive’s Ukraine Conflict collection. On July 17th, at 3:22 P.M. The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days. Web pages don’t have to be deliberately deleted to disappear. The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The footnote, a landmark in the history of civilization, took centuries to invent and to spread. Up close, they’re noisy.
Het internet of things wordt een grote beïnvloedingsmachine dronebezorging Waarom gebeurde dit? Een algoritme dat al jouw communicatie en die van je vrienden analyseert wist dat je alleen was. En uit je facebookposts was op te maken dat je naar de film wilde, maar dat niemand tijd had. Sentimentanalyse van je tweets wees erop dat je een beetje verdrietig was en jezelf eenzaam voelde. Je slimme koelkast wist dat je geen boerenkool meer had. Volgens het meest recente nummer van Proceedings of the IEEE, met de titel “The Digital Age And the Future Of Social Network Science And Engineering,” is dit de toekomst van het beïnvloeden van gedrag. Overtuigingsstrategieën uit de online wereld zullen overgaan naar de offline wereld. De kern van deze nieuwe technologie is het delen van data. “De technologie is er al,” zegt Dylan Walker, assistent professor in informatiesystemen aan de Boston University. “Zulke systemen zullen niet ontstaan zonder expliciete toestemming en vertrouwen van de gebruiker,” voegt hij eraan toe.
We need an internet that leaves space in our heads to enjoy creative peace | Technology I was sitting on my own in the room I had for the week, looking out over a steep Spanish hillside of almond blossom and holm oak and olive trees. It was sunny but cold, and I sat at the table with a large cup of tea and a blanket over my legs. Beside me lay a broken internet router. It was very, very quiet. No TV, no music, no radio, no children. This is luxury calm. With friends, we planned meals and cooked. I drew every day, observing and questioning and redrawing, remarking. I have meditated every day for a month – dismissing my own prejudices and excuses – letting my mind settle on the simple patterns of my breath, the feeling of my body resting on the floor. I stand by my opinion that the internet is not made for us. But this haphazard attention war is not the norm. Distractions muted, we have time and attention for the bigger picture. If my journey offline has taught me anything it is balance; that this aspirational, hyperconnected life we see all around us is not normal.
As we may understand We’re heading into a world of increasingly complex engineered systems in everyday life, from smart cities, smart electricity grids and networked infrastructure on the one hand, to ourselves, personally, being always connected to each other: it’s not going to be just an Internet of Things, but very much an Internet of Things and People, and Communities, too. Yet there is a disconnect between the potential quality of life benefits for society, and people’s understanding of these — often invisible — systems around us. How do they work? Who runs them? IoT technology and the ecosystems around it could enable behaviour change for social and environmental sustainability in a wide range of areas, from energy use to civic engagement and empowerment. Understanding things The internet, particularly the world-wide web, has done many things, but something it has done particularly well is to enable us to understand the world around us better. But how do things fit into this? What’s a way to do this?
Je tiener op het web en de afkortingen Als tieners iets verborgen willen houden, dan lukt ze dat vaak. Als pedofielen zich willen voordoen als een vriendinnetje van 13, dan lukt ze dat ook vaak. Oplettend blijven is verstandig; Voor tieners lijkt er bijna geen verschil tussen de offline-wereld en de online-wereld. Naast gesprekken voeren die niet bestraffend zijn, zodat de tiener blijft vertellen, kun je het volgende doen en de volgende afkortingen leren: – Bepaal en bespreek de grenzen als het om internetgebruik gaat – Zorg dat je weet met welke apparaten ze toegang hebben tot het internet – Verander je de settings zodat ze niet overal naartoe kunnen surfen, hou er dan rekening mee dat ze misschien de wifi van de buren gebruiken en de settings daarmee ontduiken – Zorg dat ze weten hoe ze een probleem kunnen rapporteren – Zorg dat ze met je blijven praten Deze woordenlijst is natuurlijk niet compleet maar kan wellicht helpen: OLM – ouders lezen mee xwhap – verder op whatsapp w/ – samen met wjw – wat jij wil (*_*) : mooi meisje b : back
The population of the internet, in one map How big is the internet? This map from the Oxford Internet Institute shows where the world's internet users live: This is a cartogram, a map in which the area of each country is proportional to its online population, based on 2011 data. So countries with large land areas but small populations — like Canada and Russia — appear shrunken, while dense, well-connected areas like South Korea and Belgium appear larger than life. The most striking region is Africa. The continent has 1.1 billion people, more than three times the population of the United States. That's likely to change in the coming decades. While the United States is more wired than much of the world, the US is not a world leader when it comes to internet penetration. Further reading Who created the internet? In 1973, software engineers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn began work on the next generation of networking standards for the ARPANET.
The Internet's Original Sin Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boiling oil onto the heads of our enemies as they attempted to bang down the gates of our village. But as everyone now knows, we had some problems, primarily technical problems, that prevented us from doing what we wanted to do the way we had hoped to do it. What we’re asking for today is another chance. There’s little suspense in the story—the disastrous outcome is obvious from the first paragraph—but it works because of the poignancy of the apology. The fiasco I want to talk about is the World Wide Web, specifically, the advertising-supported, “free as in beer” constellation of social networks, services, and content that represents so much of the present day web industry. The talk is hilarious and insightful, and poignant precisely for the reasons Carlson’s story is.
The internet is fucked In a perfect storm of corporate greed and broken government, the internet has gone from vibrant center of the new economy to burgeoning tool of economic control. Where America once had Rockefeller and Carnegie, it now has Comcast’s Brian Roberts, AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, and Verizon’s Lowell McAdam, robber barons for a new age of infrastructure monopoly built on fiber optics and kitty GIFs. And the power of the new network-industrial complex is immense and unchecked, even by other giants: AT&T blocked Apple’s FaceTime and Google’s Hangouts video chat services for the preposterously silly reason that the apps were "preloaded" on each company’s phones instead of downloaded from an app store. Verizon and AT&T have each blocked the Google Wallet mobile payment system because they’re partners in the competing (and not very good) ISIS service. We’re really, really fucking this up. But we can fix it, I swear. We can do it. Go ahead, say it out loud. None. This is nonsense, of course.