Weaving the Dark Web : Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- What Is the Dark Web? -- Methodology: Dark Web Situational Analysis -- Pragmatic Keyword Analysis -- Plan of the Book -- Caveats and Shortcomings -- Notes -- 2 Violence, Propriety, Authenticity: A Symbolic Economy of the Dark Web -- Three Legitimacies -- Objects and Power -- Further Articulating "Legitimacy" and "Dark Web" -- A Symbolic/Material Economy of Legitimacy -- The Dark Web's Trials of Legitimacy -- Notes -- 3 The Dark Web Network Builders -- Freenet: The Web, Decentralized and Anonymized -- The Tor Project: From Free Haven to Hidden Services -- I2P: From Invisible IRC to Invisible Internet -- Legitimacies among the Network Builders -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 From Agorism to OPSEC: Dark Web Markets and a Shifting Relationship to the State -- Dark Web Markets Overview -- Agorism -- Agorism on the Dark Web -- Agorism on Silk Road -- The Fall of Silk Road and the Decline of Dark Web Agorism -- OPSEC: Operations Security -- OPSEC on Dark Web Markets -- Dark Web OPSEC Politics -- Postscript: OPSEC Politics after AlphaBay and Hansa -- Notes -- 5 Searching for the Google of the Dark Web -- Propriety: Commanding Respect, Commanding Resources -- Organizing Resources and Respect -- Dark Web Search Engines -- Hiding and Simplifying -- Dealing with Resistance -- Conclusion: Inheriting from Google -- Notes -- 6 Being Legit on a Dark Web Social Network -- The Legit: Legitimacy as Authenticity -- From Galaxy to Visibility to Galaxy2 -- Ways of Being a Legit G2 Member -- Conclusions -- Postscript: Happy New Year -- Notes -- 7 Facebook and the Dark Web: A Collision -- Special-Use Domain Names: The IETF's RFC 6761 -- FOSS Friends: GNU, Tor, Namecoin, and I2P Work Together -- Https://facebookcorewwi.onion -- Facebook and Tor Break Away -- Grothoff's Reaction -- I2P's Reaction.

Clear and Dark Collisions -- Notes -- 8 Conclusion -- The Youth Liberation Front -- Expanding Communicative Possibilities -- The Dark Web's Trial of Legitimacy Continues -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.

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