3. History & Theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/
Darknet_(file_sharing)
Darknets started as
net works that weren’t
on Arpanet
Timothy C. May - Cyphernomicon
Eric Hughes - A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
Darknets
Freenet
4. “Free” as in “Speech”
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the
time, even though she's too young to have
logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry
that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to
me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they
took freedom of the press away from the
Internet?'"
—Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
5. Practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tor_(anonymity_net work)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?
page=videos/getting-started-with-the-
i2p-darknet
Freenet
Garlic routing is a variant of onion routing that
encrypts multiple messages together to make it
The Onion Router (Tor) more difficult for attackers to perform traffic
analysis.
I2P / Garlic routing
eepSites
iMule (eDonkey/kademlia)
I2Phex (gnutella)
BitTorrent
Comparisons
6. The Onion Router (TOR)
Tor: Onion-based routing that acts as a proxy
layer between the client computer and the Tor
network (middlemen encrypted data transfers)
Privoxy
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Onion_routing
Onion routing Patented by the US Navy
Onion routers reroute messages in an
unpredictable path
Anonymity can be retained even
with compromised intermediate
routers
Unlinkability - eavesdropper cannot
easily determine both the sender and
receiver
Generally slow
8. Cryptoanarchism in
http://
Action www.irishtimes.com/
newspaper/finance/
http://iansbrain.com/
2009/06/15/tor-and-
the-iranian-election/
2009 Iranian Election protests: The Iran Curtain
Privacy is not Secrecy
Slippery slope of privacy erosion
The boiling frog
9. Information in the Open
Wikileaks Wikileaks states that its "primary interest
is in exposing oppressive regimes in "in response to the
Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub- attempted suppression,
Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but Wikileaks will release
Authenticity & Consensus
we also expect to be of assistance to several thousand additional
people of all regions who wish to reveal pages of Scientology
unethical behavior in their governments material next week"
"The simplest and most effective countermeasure is a
and corporations."
worldwide community of informed users and editors
who can scrutinize and discuss leaked documents."
Activism on the public record
Pittsburg G-20 protests on Twitter
Chilling Effects 2003 incident in which
Barbra Streisand
unsuccessfully attempted to
Streisand Effect sue photographer Kenneth
Adelman and Pictopia.com
for US$50 million in an
attempt to have the aerial
10. “Information Wants to
Be Free” Stewart Brand at the first
Hackers' Conference in
1984
Stallman—founder of the
GNU Project and the Free
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because
Software Foundation
it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just
changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be
free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and
lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each
other.” —Stewart Brand
“I believe that all generally useful information should be free.
By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to
copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When
information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity
wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is
receiving.” —Richard Stallman
