Download - 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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