Weaving the dark web : legitimacy on freenet, Tor, and I2P / Robert W. Gehl.
| Author/creator | Gehl, Robert W. author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | The information society series Information society series. ^A1063450 |
| Contents | Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; What Is the Dark Web?; Methodology: Dark Web Situational Analysis; Pragmatic Keyword Analysis; Plan of the Book; Caveats and Shortcomings; Notes; 2 Violence, Propriety, Authenticity: A Symbolic Economy of the Dark Web; Three Legitimacies; Objects and Power; Further Articulating "Legitimacy" and "Dark Web"; A Symbolic/Material Economy of Legitimacy; The Dark Web's Trials of Legitimacy; Notes; 3 The Dark Web Network Builders; Freenet: The Web, Decentralized and Anonymized; The Tor Project: From Free Haven to Hidden Services |
| Contents | I2P: From Invisible IRC to Invisible Internet; Legitimacies among the Network Builders; Conclusion; Notes; 4 From Agorism to OPSEC: Dark Web Markets and a Shifting Relationship to the State; Dark Web Markets Overview; Agorism; Agorism on the Dark Web; Agorism on Silk Road; The Fall of Silk Road and the Decline of Dark Web Agorism; OPSEC: Operations Security; OPSEC on Dark Web Markets; Dark Web OPSEC Politics; Postscript: OPSEC Politics after AlphaBay and Hansa; Notes; 5 Searching for the Google of the Dark Web; Propriety: Commanding Respect, Commanding Resources |
| Contents | Organizing Resources and Respect; Dark Web Search Engines; Hiding and Simplifying; Dealing with Resistance; Conclusion: Inheriting from Google; Notes; 6 Being Legit on a Dark Web Social Network; The Legit: Legitimacy as Authenticity; From Galaxy to Visibility to Galaxy2; Ways of Being a Legit G2 Member; Conclusions; Postscript: Happy New Year; Notes; 7 Facebook and the Dark Web: A Collision; Special-Use Domain Names: The IETF's RFC 6761; FOSS Friends: GNU, Tor, Namecoin, and I2P Work Together; Https://facebookcorewwi.onion; Facebook and Tor Break Away; Grothoff's Reaction; I2P's Reaction |
| Contents | Clear and Dark Collisions; Notes; 8 Conclusion; The Youth Liberation Front; Expanding Communicative Possibilities; The Dark Web's Trial of Legitimacy Continues; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Abstract | An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gehl, Robert W. Weaving the dark web. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018] 9780262038263 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262347587 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 026234758X (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 11266 MIT Press |
| Stock number | 9780262347587 MIT Press |