Web of darkness

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2961, 2014, págs. 44-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Visibility and transparency, which have long been hallmarks of the online world is discussed. People are used to being able to see anything posted on the web, and were used to the idea that anything people do there may be visible to anyone else. Like dark matter and dark energy, people know the dark web is out there, but people can't see it directly. Entire uncharted realms lie beyond the reach of the crawlers that tirelessly catalogue the web on behalf of search giants: databases, Internet relay chat records, and the raw data behind research papers.