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Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are Fought and Hackers Roam Free
Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are Fought and Hackers Roam Free
His name is not Opsec, but I will call him that to guard his privacy. In webspace he is known as a grand master of the dark art of hacking. He is one of a small elite-maybe a hundred, maybe fewer-all of whom are secretive and obsessed with security.
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This is an awesome read. Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately, it's totally inaccurate. What is being referred to here as the "dark web" or "dark net" is, in fact, cipherspace.
A darknet is, according to Microsoft and many other security professionals:
Cipherspace, the areas of the internet protected from normal analysis and access by encryption is more than 80% of the total internet. It does include resources like Tor Hidden Services, Freenet, and I2P, but it is mostly (>70%) corporate cipherspaces - VPN-only intranets and portal-based services that employees use to clock in and out, share information, and request access to sensitive data.
The things that happen on Tor Hidden Services are the things that happened on the normal 'net fifteen years ago. It's slow, it's unreliable, and it's almost totally anonymous. There is no such thing as the "dark web". There's just the Internet. Some of it is cipherspace, and some of it is used by criminals, and sometimes those two overlap.
I was more interested in "Opsec's" history myself. Not the smartest person in the world of security and IT, but was very interesting read overall.
Do you follow Jesters Court? Seems like someone you would be interested in following based off the information you provided.
It was a pretty cool story, yeah!
I don't, but he seems somewhat interesting. Some cool material on his site, though his blog posts make him seem pretty abrasive.