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Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (The Information Society Series) by Robert W. Gehl, Laura DeNardis, Michael Zimmer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**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.** The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points out in __Weaving the Dark Web__, for each of these illegitimate uses, there are other, legitimate ones: the __New York Times__'s anonymous whistleblowing system, for example, and the use of encryption by political dissidents. Defining the Dark Web straightforwardly as websites that can be accessed only with special routing software, and noting the frequent use of “legitimate” and its variations by users, journalists, and law enforcement to describe Dark Web practices (judging them “legit” or “sh!t”), Gehl uses the concept of legitimacy as a window into the Dark Web. He does so by examining the history of three Dark Web systems: Freenet, Tor, and I2P. Gehl presents three distinct meanings of legitimate: legitimate force, or the state's claim to a monopoly on violence; organizational propriety; and authenticity. He explores how Freenet, Tor, and I2P grappled with these different meanings, and then disc

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Author

Robert W. Gehl, Laura DeNardis, Michael Zimmer

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262347587

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Political Science, Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14