As I discuss in my book, over the years, Freenet, Tor, and I2P have all contested one another’s legitimacy, through highly technical and often snarky debates across mailing lists and at computer science conferences.
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This particular trial of legitimacy is not limited to the Dark Web, but is a feature of any creative community, which includes those who build the underlying anonymizing software.
Along with legit status comes a degree of power and influence within whatever sociotechnical circles one runs in. On the Dark Web, authentic things – whether they be drug markets, hackers, or counterfeit currencies – are labeled “legit.” To be legit is to be for real, not bullshit, not a fake or a scam.
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As I argue in my book, is possible because of three trials of legitimacy, all of which Tor appears to have won: a trial of authenticity, where “real” coders and hackers make the best software a trial of propriety, where an organization successfully claims resources and respect and a trial of violence, where networks promise to protect dissidents from state power. The Times in the Dark happens because of esoteric competition among anonymizing network builders, especially between the Tor Project and I2P, as well as the mundane yet important processes of setting Internet standards. Why would the Times want to associate with this supposedly evil Web? Why put America’s most respected newspaper onto the same network the Nazi site Daily Stormer retreated to? My definition notwithstanding, most journalists still define the Dark Web as a seedy underbelly only accessible with Tor. My definition might be clearer than “Dark Web = evil” or “Dark Web = Tor”, but it does little to explain how the New York Times came to the Dark Web and specifically to Tor hidden services. The Tor Network was inspired in part by Freenet, as was another anonymizing system, the Invisible Internet Project (or I2P), both of which came online a few years after Freenet started. The oldest is Freenet, developed in 1999 by computer scientist Ian Clarke. There are multiple routing software packages one can use to visit and publish Web sites anonymously. In addition to pushing back against the moral definition of “Dark Web,” my definition also pushes against another definition: the Dark Web is simply another name for the Tor network. And this is not to mention more benign sites on the Dark Web, like chess engines, cat fact sites, search engines, or social networking sites. But activists and dissidents have used these same tools to discuss politics and blow the whistle on governments. To be certain, criminals have used this anonymizing capability to sell drugs and share illegal content. In doing so, both readers and publishers are anonymized. Dark Web sites are regular Web sites, but with the twist that the special routing software hides the IP addresses of both readers of the sites as well as publishers of the sites. Instead of a definition playing on the moral connotations of “darkness,” my definition of “Dark Web” is collections of Web sites (made of HTML and CSS) accessible with a standard Web browser which is routed through anonymizing software. Indeed, the definition of “Dark Web” as “ anything bad that happens on the Web” might be the most popular definition of that term.īut as I argue in my forthcoming book, Weaving the Dark Web: A Trial of Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (MIT Press 2018), this definition of the Dark Web is quite misleading.
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The Times‘s entry into the Dark Web might sound strange, given that the predominant narrative about the Dark Web is that it is full of child exploitation images, black hat hackers, terrorists, identity thieves, and drug and gun markets. No, the Russians are not producing this version of the Times to promote fake news. No, the stories aren’t surrounded by ads for drug markets.
No, this isn’t a pirated version of the Times meant to get people around the paywall. That 16 character alphanumeric address took me to the “Dark Web” edition of the New York Times, a version that has been available since late October.
But I didn’t type in into the Tor Browser. A few days ago, I poured myself a fresh cup of coffee, opened up my laptop, started up the Tor Browser, and read the New York Times.
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