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Colin Tankard, Digital Pathways: Government to Clamp Down On Dark Side of Web

December 2014 by Colin Tankard, Managing Director, Digital Pathways

The news today that the Tech Industry is working with law enforcement agencies under the new Government initiative to crack down on illegal and inappropriate activity on the ‘dark side’ of the web is to be welcomed according to Colin Tankard, Managing Director, Digital Pathways.

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The ‘dark side’ of the web, sometimes known as Silk Road 2, is accessed via The Tor browser and allows anonymous access into the ‘dark side’.

The part of the Internet that the public are able to access and view makes up only about 20% of the total Internet. The rest is what is known as the ‘dark side’ that accounts for some 80% of the Internet.

Says Tankard, “The ‘dark side’ of the web is a valuable platform for freedom of information and flow of data particularly for suppressed individuals in politically unstable countries but, equally, has been hijacked by terrorist organisations and other illegal operations such as pedophiles, gun runners and drug lords.

“In a recent Infosecurity Magazine article ( http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/solve-a-problem-like-tor/) I outlined the positive benefits of the ‘dark side’ of the web and how its anonymity should be maintained but with a mechanism for catching unethical and illegal operations.

“The initiative announced today will enable law enforcement agencies to create sites and operate on the dark side of the web specifically targeting those engaged in illicit operations. This is to be welcomed.

“However, I hope that in working to shut down these unwanted activities the powers to be are not used to monitor genuine freedom of information calls for help such as whistle blowers like Snowden or the NHS employees recently.

“Many journalists, for instance, use this part of the web as a source of communication with vulnerable parties and often it is a vehicle for suppressed nations to communicate with the western world to highlight atrocities and political unrest in their countries. It would be to no ones benefit for this type of activity to be stopped.

“Another concern may be that organisations such as terrorists may be frightened to use the ‘dark web’ and therefore create their own dark networks that are closed and only allowed access by specific permissions that makes infiltration harder.

“It comes down to a question of balance”.


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