Darknet

A darknet (or dark net) is an overlay network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using non-standard communications protocols and ports. Two typical darknet types are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor.

The reciprocal term for an encrypted darknet is clearnet or surface web when referring to search engine indexable content.

Origins

Originally coined in the 1970s to designate networks which were isolated from ARPANET (which evolved into the Internet) for security purposes, darknets were able to receive data from ARPANET but had addresses which did not appear in the network lists and would not answer pings or other inquiries.

The term gained public acceptance following publication of "The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution", a 2002 paper by Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman, four employees of Microsoft who argued that the presence of the darknet was the primary hindrance to the development of workable DRM technologies and inevitability of copyright infringement.

Darknet (disambiguation)

Darknet or dark net may refer to:

Darknet (series)

Darknet is a Canadian horror series that is currently running on Super Channel and an adaptation of the Japanese series Tori Hada, which aired on TV Asahi. The series has been described as being composed of "snippets of people's lives being interrupted by vivid instances of unexpected violence or shocking strangeness" and each episode consists of several interlocking stories. The series' setup also allows for users to submit their own scripts and videos to the official series' social media sites after the season's end.

The first episode of Darknet was released onto the Internet on October 31, 2013 through the series' official Vimeo page and subsequent episodes were made available through Super Channel. The first season of Darknet comprises six episodes and was completed on March 28, 2014.

Premise

Each episode features several different stories that revolve around people in various different horror related situations. Each story is related to a website called "Darknet", where people can post questions or answers to various topics such as what would be the best way to dispose of a corpse.