See You on the Darknet: Why we don't really want Internet security. (28 Jan 2004)

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See You on the Darknet: Why we don't really want Internet security. (28 Jan 2004)
An ad hoc alliance of techno-rebels covertly transferring unauthorized data in defiance of network authorities-sound familiar, Neo? It's such a popular scenario that the same Microsoft researchers leading the company's secure computing efforts wrote a paper two years ago describing this inevitable backlash, which they dubbed the darknet. The darknet! Jeez, are they trying to make piracy cool? Who'd want to hang out on the boring old Internet when the other kids are on the darknet?

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