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Comment Re:Wait, what... (Score 5, Informative) 52

Author of the article here. I agree, that's not a great sentence. An editor put that in an attempt to define what the Dark Net is to readers. I missed it when re-reading it. My excuse is that this is like 5000+ words and I had just spent hours getting through everything and putting it together. To the editor's credit, he was also working long hours late at night to get this out today, so I don't blame him either. So let me reiterate that yeah, I think that's a poor definition that unnecessarily casts anonymity it a bad light. Anyone who reads other stuff I've written about privacy knows that's not how I feel. Sorry!

Submission + - All the evidence the government will present in the Silk Road trial is online (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: In less than a month, one of the biggest trials of 2015 will begin in New York City. The full list of government evidence and defense objections found its way online recently, shedding light on both the prosecutor's courtroom strategy and the defense team's attempted rebuttals. Also important is what's not presented as evidence. There's not a single piece of forensic documentation about how the FBI originally found Silk Road servers, an act the defense as called "blatantly criminal."

Submission + - Tor eyes crowdfunding campaign to upgrade its hidden services (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: The web's biggest anonymity network is considering a crowdfunding campaign to overhaul its hidden services.

In the last 15 months, several of the biggest anonymous websites on the Tor network have been identified and seized by police. In most cases, no one is quite sure how it happened.

The details of such a campaign have yet to be revealed. With enough funding, Tor could have developers focusing their work entirely on hidden services, a change in developer priorities that many Tor users have been hoping for in recent years.

Submission + - FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: The Federal Communications Commission's seemingly suspicious timing in delaying its net neutrality decision has absolutely nothing to do with recent politics, according to an FCC official. Instead, it's a matter of some people in the agency insisting they be more prepared before going to court to defend their eventual plan.

In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of Verizon, which challenged the FCC's 2010 Open Internet rules, striking down the agency's net neutrality protections. The court found that the FCC did not use the proper legal structure to establish its regulatory authority over broadband service—something that many legal experts say would not be the case if the FCC invokes Title II.

The FCC's move to delay the net neutrality decision, which followed President Obama's support of Title II reclassification, was just a coincidence, according to the FCC official:

Before the president weighed in, several of our staff felt like the record was a little thin in areas, and the last thing you want when you go to court for the third time is for a court to say the record was too thin, or you didn't give adequate notice. We are going to be so careful this time that we have crossed every T and dotted every I. Some of the staff felt we're not quite there yet.

Submission + - Senate may vote on NSA reform as soon as next week (dailydot.com) 1

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: Senate Majority Leader (for now) Harry Reid announced he will be taking the USA FREEDOM Act to a floor vote in the Senate as early as next week. While the bill, if passed, would be the first significant legislative reform of the NSA since 9/11, many of the act's initial supporters have since disavowed it, claiming that changes to its language mean it won't do enough to curb the abuses of the American survailence state

Submission + - After Silk Road 2.0, rival Dark Net markets explode to biggest size ever (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: A week ago, Silk Road 2.0 was theatrically shut down by a global cadre of law enforcement. This week, the dark net is realigning.

In the wake of the latest police action against online bazaars, the anonymous black market known as Evolution is now the biggest Dark Net market of all time. Today, Evolution features 20,221 products for sale, a 28.8 percent increase from just one month ago and an enormous 300 percent increase over the past six months.

Submission + - After Silk Road 2, eyes turn to 'untouchable' decentralized market (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes:

Following a wave of Dark Net arrests that brought down the famous anonymous drug market Silk Road 2.0, all eyes have turned to a marketplace called OpenBazaar that is designed to be impossible to shut down.

Described as the “next generation of uncensored trade” and a “safe untouchable marketplace,” OpenBazaar is fundamentally different from all the online black markets that have come before it, because it is completely decentralized. If authorities acted against OpenBazaar users, they could arrest individuals, but the network would survive.

"If you're thinking about OpenBazaar as Silk Road 3.0, you're thinking about it much too narrowly," Patterson said in an interview last night. "I actually think it's much more powerful as eCommerce 2.0."

Submission + - FBI director continues his campaign against encryption (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: Following the announcements that Apple and Google would make full disk encryption the default option on their smartphones, FBI director James Comey has made encryption a key issue of his tenure. His blitz continues today with a speech that says encryption will hurt public safety. This is an old refrain from law enforcement. But wheres the evidence?

Submission + - Ross Ulbricht's lawyer says FBI's hack of Silk Road was 'criminal' (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: Trading blows with the prosecution, defendants for accused Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht continues to press for the exclusion of evidence seized during what he says is an illegal hack an awful lot like the one that got Weev 15 months in prison:

"The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to a strict standard of conduct construed by the government, and the other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards. Yet neither law nor the Constitution permits rank government lawlessness without consequences.”

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