Most people mistakenly believe that the Internet is a place of anonymity and separate from television propaganda. Unfortunately, things are different. Online anonymity does not exist, and propaganda on the Internet complements that of television. It turns out that the Russians are planning coordinated actions outside their territory, the aim of which will be to influence the public opinion of a given country through the propaganda influence programmed, among others, in social networks. It sounds scary and Russia is not even going to hide that it plans to improve the methods of programming societies for specific views. Moreover, three tenders for the creation of such a system were publicly announced? One of the system’s modules called “dispute” is to monitor the local blogosphere and forums for free exchange of ideas. In a word, in order to “rip off the proverbial beret” you must first get to know it. According to press releases, the system will be tested on countries that were on...
If, when using a search engine, we went to the trouble and clicked on all the links displayed, we would see only a fragment of what is actually on the Internet. Google and other search engines are not all-knowing. If someone wants to hide something on the Web from search engines, it will be easy to do. This state of affairs is used by, among others administrators of the so-called darknet. Darknet is conceptually similar to secret lodges in the real world. Initially, it had nothing to do with illegal machinations. Only a person who is personally known to at least one member of the lodge may attend the secret meeting. They take place in public places, but only the initiated know where and when. Translated into the Internet language, this means that the darknets offer similar services to all other websites (e.g. websites, e-mail, file sharing), they are available to virtually everyone, provided that the interested party uses the right software and knows what and whom looking for. Da...