What dark side of internet you know?

This is something new which many of the users don't know, and this I came to know from one of my anonymous friend on online, who suggested me to try this out, but then when I got a good grip of it, it was something huge and undiscovered space for me, Freenet is something where one could find data for anything, which normally one won't find on the normal web.  And this Freenet is  a software from which one can't track where the query is coming from and what kind of content is  a user going through, it completely hides the data and makes one invisible on the web platform and, and many countries has banned this use of Freenet, but then somehow people get hold of this software and do all that stuff, there are blogs like "The Terrorist's Handbook: A practical guide to explosives and other things of interests to terrorists", "Freenet Warez Portal: The source for pirate copies of books, games, movies, music, software, TV series and more". And the experience was something which was not normal and a bit sick too, from porno to whole lot of other things which is very difficult to explain on platform.  so thought it would be better stick to Google for now. I guess this was pretty much dark side of the internet for me.

Though we all discuss about the dark side of net, but in actual grounds when we talk about how, when where it is originated from, comes from the people themselves who actually use it. Internet as we all know about, happens to be a society in itself which we all as society members share.

When we talk about our security on internet by using proxy, masking and all such stuff what we do is promote the anti-social people to use it as well.

A spam as we all know is a generic mail generated by bots and is sent to mass for a varied reasons but what we might not know is that we the people are the one who actually promote it...how????

Well all of us have one or the other account on social networking sites, try to play online games, do the net transactions and many more and each account created is logged somewhere or the other, today even google being the most powerful search engine actually searches all your profiles and accounts and at times mails sent as attachment where we are mentioned..there is actually no security even though if we mask ourselves..on the other hand just for some quick bucks..people sell these data banks to advertising companies or others who are looking for such data to capture potential customers.

Hackers on the other hand being one of us looks for such open stuff to hinder our privacy, make things public. When we log on like an ignorant on net and look up for free songs or movies or games, the time when we visit chatrooms and if we check out pics or video profiles of anyone what at the back-end happens is that we actually download it to our cache and if in any case not using firewall or proxies are prone to put trojans along with them which can actually sneak through our systems to hold as a remote system to the attacker and then whatever the hacker might want to do he can actually play with us, our file system or basically our 'PRIVACY', There have been numerous cases where actually people were on live sites because their remote systems were affected by trojans and their webcams were working as sneak sets to show their personal life 'LIVE' on sites.

Russia as we all know never happens to maintain any logs of what any Internet user does there, so ideally any hacker in Russia will never be tracked as there is no log maintenance that can actually hold him responsible of doing anything, next the multi-proxy masking that further strengthens them.

So I consider that it is we who in the name of security but being ignorant are actually helping the anti-socials to be the knights of the 'The Dark Side' of the Internet and this is what i would call as the 'DARK SIDE' the Sub-Domain of the 'NET' itself.

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Yes very true the Internet's Dark Side is very ugly and it is difficult to convey what is really out there. Of course, what you see as a content is not censored. So there is so much Uncensored content which is pretty dark side of internet for me.

According to me the Internet's Dark Side is The Internet never sleeps. Hackers have many tools in their arsenal to draw people into their world, intending to hook them for life. They send out thousands of speculative "spam" e-mail messages containing inviting Web hyperlinks.

And if you click on one of those e-mail message links, many browser windows are often spawned simultaneously, each one open to a different site. And also, if you respond to such e-mail messages with an "unsubscribe" directive, your e-mail address is sold on a premium "active" list, which will spark much more of the e-mail spam.

The internet has become a tool for fundamentalist organizations to spread their dangerous ideology viz websites, social networks etc.

Vulnerable persons may sometimes get carried away by such ideologies.

It is not just "mass suicide" plots, but also potential terror groups.

Some programmes like nude and rape games online for kids...pornography...sexual invitation in a vulgarity....method of preparing explosive....admiring non social activities in heroic form and so many things, are the dark side of the net . the data or stuff available on the net shall be scrutinized thoroughly before putting on the net. there should be some control of data on the net.

its one idea that some content should control at the service provider level and can be accessable onpayment basis.This could prevent accessing bad content to children and students.