the darknet emerges

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March 9, 2014 The darknet emerges

Darknet: The spaces and

technologies used avoid

personal identification on the

internet.

•  Tor / Onion routing •  VPNs of all types

•  PGP and encryption: Email, chat, whole disk, etc.

•  Bitcoin et al: pseudonymous crypto-currencies

•  Secure hardware environments: Linux and open source software, non Intel / AMD processors

•  Encrypted, distributed virtual hosting (think Pirate Bay)

•  Generally speaking: Distributed, P2P, non-centralized software infrastructure

•  Real-world OpSec: Keeping quiet

Components of the current darknet

•  Drugs (Silk Road) •  Wikileaks •  Anonymous / Hacktivism •  Civil disobedience •  Murder / extortion for hire •  Weapons •  Personal / private information •  Software, botnet, or exploit marketplaces

The Darknet in the news.

So why would anybody want to

be there?

“A mill for grinding rouges honest”

-Jeremy Bentham

The decline of physical privacy.

Generally speaking decent people.

The opportunities for abuse of the

panopticon are immense.

“Power corrupts. Absolute power

corrupts absolutely.”

-­‐Lord  Acton,  1887  

Blackmail.

Trading on personal information.

Exposure of unpopular / private

beliefs or activities.

As ‘real world’

privacy

disappears, digital

privacy will grow.

The birth of digital

schizophrenia.

SecDent

End-to-end encryption is just an app

away.

• Silent Circle • Anonyme • Snapchat • Secret • Meshnet hardware / software • Anonymous local area networks

Commercializing privacy.

•  Distributed platforms to enable contracts between anonymous SecDents

•  Anonymous multi-signature escrow accounts to allow for bonded transactions

•  SecDent ownership of real-world assets

•  Anonymous, multi-hop delivery services and dropboxes

Emerging darknet capabilities.

•  Encrypted communications

•  Secure computing environment

•  Bitcoin wallets •  Whole-disk encryption •  SecDents / handles •  Low-risk political and

social speech

"The Personal is Political”

-Carol Hanisch

Defense of critical

institutions and

democratic processes

will require adoption of

darknet elements.

Questions…

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