Freenet, darknets, and the “deep web”
Installing the software takes barely a couple of minutes and requires minimal computer skills. You find the Freenet website, read a few terse instructions, and answer a few questions (“How much...
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A 50-Watt Cellular Network
An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell the equipment in Africa, expanding...
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Open-source technologies to intelligently inhabit the oceans
Open Sailing is… well, just look at a list of their projects and check out their site: - Instinctive_Architecture : an architecture that behaves like a super-organism, reacting to the weather...
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Must read Glenn Greenwald on CIA propaganda efforts overseas and Wikileaks
The Report also cites the “fall of the Dutch Government over its troop commitment to Afghanistan” and worries that — particularly if the “bloody summer in Afghanistan” that many predict takes place —...
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Decentralizing Twitter – And the Rest of the Web, Too
I just interviewed J Chris Anderson, the CFO of CouchOne, for ReadWriteWeb. CouchOne is the corporate sponsor of an open source database and programming language called CouchDB. Anderson recently...
View ArticleHow Osama bin Laden Used E-Mail Without An Internet Connection
According to the Associated Press’ sources, Osama bin Laden routinely typed e-mails on an Internet-less computer in his compound, saved them to a USB thumbdrive and had a courier e-mail them from...
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Dead Drops: Anonymous, Offline, Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Network in Public...
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone...
View ArticleIs Child Porn On Darknets Actually A Sign Of A Healthy Society?
I just covered Cryptosphere, a forthcoming darknet, for TechCrunch. Here’s a bit from the end. On the Hacker News thread about Cryptosphere, one commenter laments the fact that darknets end up being...
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Feds Raid Silk Road
Kim Zetter reports for Wired: The FBI has arrested the San Francisco man they say ran Silk Road, the notorious underground digital bazaar that allowed traffickers to anonymously peddle heroin, cocaine...
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Silk Road Round-Up
The biggest story of the week biggest tech story of the week (obviously the shutdown is the biggest general interest story of the week) is that the Feds (claim to have) busted Silk Road, the...
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