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So this is the issue with the term "dark" and the internet, it just makes it sound seedy and people are up to no good, using tools for illegal for very underground purposes. No where in the article itself does it mention "dark web" apart from the title. The Dark Mail Alliance watch out.
Yep. I was looking for the reference to Tor and hoping that they were offering "dropbox" via a hidden service.
"Dropbox" has become generic term now?
It seems to me that the best way to launch a product for the "dark web" would be to just release the code.
It's difficult to know what they're offering with so few details. The article writes that "F Secure will not stop a proper investigation from the authorities. But it has done its level best to make sure your content cannot be combed and picked up by intelligence agencies or advertisers, without your knowledge or through illegal means, and promises that everything from the thumbnail to the content itself and the metad…
Im thinking it might appeal to the average (non-technical) European who is upset about the Snowden revelations
They really, really look like they were written by an automated process. I can't imagine a humanoid writing this:
Quite simply, everything is encrypted, with the purpose of transferring the most basic data ownership and levels of privacy back to the control of the user, even when sharing through Facebook.
I mean, it sounds...sort-of kind-of human. But how do "quite simply" and "everything is encrypted" go together? There's nothing simple about encryption. A 14 year old writing a book report could put weird constructions like that together, but this whole thing had similar weirdness throughout, but with vocabulary I wouldn't expect from a bored teenager.
You know they are already writing sports articles with computers. Why not business articles?
I just skimmed that at first, and really had no idea what had been said. Then I went back and really read the first couple of paragraphs. They really, really look like they were written by an automated process. I can't imagine a humanoid writing this: Quite simply, everything is encrypted, with the purpose of transferring the most basic data ownership and levels of privacy back to the control of the user, even when s…
On the other hand:
> a virtual private network (VPN) smartphone app
"smartphone app": for iOS and/or Android, I suppose. Can we trust anything that does not run on an open-source OS? Absolutely not.