h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today's Guardian published this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8357417.stm
which could be construed as tips for accessing the dark web.
(For those not able to access the article, it discusses the availability of child porn and internet use by terrorists and criminals. In short, how to be untrackable.)

I'm as *guilty* as the guardian I suppose but should serious news outlets be providing this information or should they have restricted the article to the dark uses made of the web?

The link opens a BBC article which appears to be about the extradition to the USA of the UK 'hacker' Gary McKinnnon

teh google to the rescue...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/dark-side-internet-freenet

This is not "how to be a criminal", it is "how to talk to people on the web without anybody else listening". I personally think that we should be able to communicate privately using the internet. I don't like the fact that even if we use encryption, the CIA can listen in on our calls.

Oops, sorry about the poorly copied link which made me paste the wrong think and thanks for rectifying that.

No, it's not about 'how to be a criminal' but it is 'which software to download' to be able to anonymously access sites including the questonable and/or downright criminal ones.

Pretty Good Privacy -- http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html


I think the positive aspects of freenet outweigh the negative ones

Freenet has been around for a long time, and is fairly well known in the 'net community

http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html

Mobile phones can be used for talking to criminals too! Perhaps we shouldn't write about them.

And pens! You can write all kinds of evil stuff with pens!

Your'e confusing the medium with the message...*words* are the real offenders here. We should stop using them immediately.

RF

Mime doom!

>>>Your'e confusing the medium with the message...

No not really. The concept of accountability within the frame of free speech.... and the limitations of the latter was the intent.

But never mind, enjoy your cheap shots

Does feeling superior make you feel all nice and warm inside? I hope so, it'll be my good deed of the day.

nsbe: smiley means, er, tongue in cheek. GAL.

RF

Consider added

Thanks for putting this up, I had no idea. Went home last night and promptly went over to "The Dark Side" to have a look......
Fascinating!

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to keep one's online doings private.