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Determining What Characteristics Constitute A Darknet, Symon Aked, Christopher Bolan, Murray Brand
Determining What Characteristics Constitute A Darknet, Symon Aked, Christopher Bolan, Murray Brand
Australian Information Security Management Conference
Privacy on the Internet has always been a concern, but monitoring of content by both private corporations and Government departments has pushed people to search for ways to communicate over the Internet in a more secure manner. This has given rise to the creations of Darknets, which are networks that operate “inside” the Internet, and allow anonymous participation via a de‐centralised, encrypted, peer‐to‐peer network topology. This research investigates some sources of known Internet content monitoring, and how they provided the template for the creation of a system to avoid such surveillance. It then highlights how communications on the Clearnet is …