Ted Talks: How the Mysterious Dark Net is Going Mainstream

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

[burrowowl]

1. K&R!!!!!!

Love TED talks 0n NPR!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. You do find some great...

... presentations on really interesting topics.

I thought this one was especially interesting.

[PatrickforO]

3. K & R!

I wonder how many people on here use the 'dark net.' I've never been on it

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. I haven't either, but I'd really like to...

... explore Silk Road.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. I tried to use Tor to view the BBC Dr. Who site....

Hoped it would go around that whole "Not available in your country" thing,

Didn't work.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. Hopefully, that will change.

The higher the demand for Dark Web access and/or some reasonable degree of privacy while surfing, the more likely the Tor browser will begin to gain wider acceptance across the net.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. There is a fundamental right to privacy in the Constitution....

We can thank Thurgood Marshall for that.

[closeupready]

10. I don't think it's illegal - there's a Firefox add-on that masks

your IP; in doing so, you may then be able to access UK videos. Haven't tried that specific task myself, but I have added that to my Firefox for privacy reasons. I forget the name - let me see if I can find it.

ZENMATE - so easy to use.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. I couldn't believe it when I tried the trial version of Windows 8....

Their map function asked if I wanted to use my current location and I thought, "Why not?".

I figured it would give the town.

Upon zooming in I found it gave the actual house I was in.

The actual building.

That's creepy.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. BTW: Just added Zenmate. ;-)

[closeupready]

14. I use it frequently - great little gizmo.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. To watch Dr. Who in the U.S., try this site

http://www.shush.se/index.php?showlist=doctorwho

I've been using it to catch up on Supernatural. Sometimes it's a little wonkie -- you'll have to reload a show to get it started, or the video is jerky -- but for the majority of the time it works just fine.

Or you can just download a show and watch it at your leisure. If you use Firefox, the add on Video Download Helper works great.

[emsimon33]

4. K&R

[Plucketeer]

7. Fascinating!

I find it ironic that it started as a government creation.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. I do too...

...and I'll bet it really burns their britches when the spillover from one of their humongous tech projects spins out of their total control and actually ends of benefitting the citizenry in some way -- the LAST thing they would ever want to do.