Weaving the dark web : legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P

著者

• Gehl, Robert W.

書誌事項

Weaving the dark web : legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P

Robert W. Gehl

（Information society series）

The MIT Press, [2018]

• : hbk.

注記

Summary: "This book explores the Dark Web--sites that must be accessed through special routers designed to protect the anonymity of visitors and publishers. Avoiding sensationalist definitions that conflate the Dark Web with illicit activity or "deep layers" that search engines cannot crawl, Gehl focuses on anonymity and encryption as the key differences between the Dark Web and the everyday "Clear Web" on which both users and publishers are tracked and identified. Gehl focuses here on Dark Web systems -- Freenet, I2P, and Tor -- to reveal the wide range of activities, many of them perfectly legal and socially enlightened, that the Dark Web supports. Despite its various uses, the question of legitimacy is an essential one: who needs the Dark Web and why? To answer these questions, this book shares the perspectives of the Dark Web's creators, users, and publishers, and proposes an original theory of media legitimacy as it relates to state power, organizational propriety, and authenticity"-- Provided by publish

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index

収録内容

• Violence, propriety, authenticity : a symbolic economy of the dark web
• The dark web network builders
• From agorism to OPSEC : dark web markets and a shifting relationship to the state
• Searching for the Google of the dark web
• Being legit on a dark web social network
• Facebook and the dark web : a collision

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. The term "Dark Web" conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out in Weaving the Dark Web, for each of these illegitimate uses, there are other, legitimate ones: the New York Times's anonymous whistleblowing system, for example, and the use of encryption by political dissidents. Defining the Dark Web straightforwardly as websites that can be accessed only with special routing software, and noting the frequent use of "legitimate" and its variations by users, journalists, and law enforcement to describe Dark Web practices (judging them "legit" or "sh!t"), Gehl uses the concept of legitimacy as a window into the Dark Web. He does so by examining the history of three Dark Web systems: Freenet, Tor, and I2P. Gehl presents three distinct meanings of legitimate: legitimate force, or the state's claim to a monopoly on violence; organizational propriety; and authenticity. He explores how Freenet, Tor, and I2P grappled with these different meanings, and then discusses each form of legitimacy in detail by examining Dark Web markets, search engines, and social networking sites. Finally, taking a broader view of the Dark Web, Gehl argues for the value of anonymous political speech in a time of ubiquitous surveillance. If we shut down the Dark Web, he argues, we lose a valuable channel for dissent.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27443025
• ISBN:
  • 9780262038263
• LCCN: 2017057049
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 276 pages
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : ZA4237
  • DC23 : 025.042
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Invisible Web
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB07608224