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With this tiny box, you can anonymize everything you do online
Wired
Editors’ note: Updated below with clarifications about Germar’s claims of Anonabox using “custom” hardware. No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture […]
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The dark world of deep web: How the internet is still shrouded in secrecy
Curiousmatic
From dark to deep web, the Internet is bigger and more shadowy than you might realize.
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How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
YouTube - TED
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet — accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything fro...
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Free the network: Hackers take back the web
Youtube - Motherboard
Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond. Read m...
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A deep web service will leak your documents if the government murders you
Vice
'Dead Man Zero' promises to leak your documents if you don't log in when you say you will.
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How to disappear online
BGR
President Obama is getting ready to announce some major changes to the NSA and the various spying programs we have learned so much about in recent months thanks to a series of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, but the damage has already been done.
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The Amazons of the dark net
Economist
Business is thriving on the anonymous internet, despite the efforts of law enforcers
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Privacy 2.0
Medium
When we set out to explore the internet we felt like singing “We are young, we run free” from the Supergrass song Alright (1995). Actually back in the 90s we were young, we were free. Unfortunately…
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Amnesty backs Detekt tool to scan for state spyware on computers
The Guardian
Human rights group says software represents ‘a strike back against governments’ over covert surveillance
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Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light
New Scientist
A time cloak conceals events rather than objects. Cloaked messages were so secret no one could read them – now they can sneak along optical fibres before being revealed
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Researchers make BitTorrent anonymous and impossible to shut down
Torrent Freak
While the BitTorrent ecosystem is filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology have released the first version of their anonymous and decentralized BitTorrent network. "Tribler makes BitTorrent anonymous and impossible to shut down," lead researcher Prof. Pouwelse says.
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Buying guns and drugs on the deep web (Documentary)
YouTube - Vice Motherboard
We used the deep web to find out just how easy it was to buy guns, drugs, and other contraband online.WATCH NEXT:Who Killed the Smart Gun? - http://bit.ly/2n...
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How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google
Digital Trends
Facebook, Google, eBay, and others own vast swaths of Web activity and have unprecedented power over us, inspiring an effort to re-decentralize the Web.
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Substratum
Substratum
Substratum – Earn cryptocurrency through the Decentralized Web.
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How to begin regulating a digital reality world
Deloitte
The growing adoption of augmented reality means that businesses and governments need to work together to regulate it better.
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The age of the operator: What the new cluster of digital-media acquirers are doing differently
Digiday
Digital-media-merger-mania accelerated towards the end of 2019. Here's what the new acquirers are looking for in digital-media assets.