[Air-L] Crypto Design Challenge for Deep Web Designers

[Florian Idelberger]

Hi Sebastian,

I cannot point you to a specific article and do not have time to look into it for you, but I think it is definitely possible to frame it differently.
In the articles you cite or others like them, I would pay special attention to their sources, especially if they use numbers or other attributions regarding percentage or number of (items?) on "the darknet" (or whichever terminology) that they perceive to be illegal or abusive or similar. I would think this is very hard to measure, and there are a lot of faulty numbers flying around, even by official institutions (as in, it is not certain what they observed, how, what they counted...)

Hope that helps,

Florian

Sebastián Lehuedé<mailto:s.lehuede at gmail.com>
Freitag, 22. Juli 2016 01:06
Hello, everyone.

I am currently writing my MSc dissertation about Tor and the concept of
freedom and I have mainly found articles criticising the amount of abusive
content on the dark web (here
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213002690><http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213002690> and
here <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135348581470042X><http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135348581470042X>,
for example).

Do you know any article that might be framing it differently? Gehl's work
<http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/16/1461444814554900.full><http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/16/1461444814554900.full> is
very interesting, for example.

Thank you!

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Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2016 17:48
Crypto Design Challenge for Deep Web Designers

The Deep Web evokes images of an underworld that cannot bear the light of day. Yet this hidden realm contains an estimated 96% of all the content to be found circulating online. The first international Crypto Design Challenge shout out to artists, designers, researchers and visionaries to dive in and create new images of the Deep Web.

Data leaks such as the Panama Papers and sensational press coverage on cybercriminals operating in a virtual legal vacuum maintain a dramatic image of online encrypted channels as a lawless cove, populated by bandits, predators and pirates. However, the Deep Web is so much more than an online black market, teeming with scandals and illegal activity. In fact, an estimated 96% of all the content online is not accessible through search engines, including encrypted databases, secret wikis and information that has not been indexed.

This realm also empowered many citizens during the Arab Spring, providing encrypted communication channels to coordinate protest movements. Indeed, it harbors important communication tools for human rights NGOs, political dissidents, activists, and every other user who – for any reason whatsoever – wishes not to be tracked, stalked, and spied on. It is one of the remaining bastions of individual privacy, against corporate and governmental snooping and data mining, a place where anyone can remain anonymous.

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