Definitions
What is the dark web?
The dark web is the hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browser. It is used for keeping internet activity anonymous and private, which can be helpful in both legal and illegal applications.
How does the Telescreen have a correlation to the world we live in currently?
Alexa, Google home, cell phones, laptops, etc. = Telescreen
Why was Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode at a forefront of a $5 billion class-action lawsuit?
The lawsuit alleges Google is in violation of wiretapping and privacy laws for intercepting, tracking, and collecting communications when Chrome’s Incognito mode is in use.
What are the pros of backdoor use?
Backdoors of the non-criminal area are helpful to tech consumers who are locked out of their devices or for troubleshooting and resolving software issues.
What is a Backdoor?
A backdoor refers to any method by which authorized and unauthorized users are able to get around normal security measures and gain high level user access or root access to a computer system, network, or software application.
What does communicating secretly relate to in 1984
“Going dark” = communicating in secret.
What does Robert S. Mueller, II mention in his article?
He explains how the FBI must cultivate the sources necessary to infiltrate criminal online networks, to collect the intelligence to prevent the next attack, and to destroy the network from the inside.
What are the cons of backdoor use?
Cybercriminals can use a backdoor to steal personal and financial data, install additional malware, and hijack devices. The most common use for a backdoor is to install Spyware.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a type of malware that collects information about you, the sites you visit on the Internet, the things you download, the files you open, usernames, passwords, and anything else of value once deployed on your system.
What does the dark web represent in 1984?
“Dark Web” = Proles/their neighborhood
What did Jonathan Zdziarski state about the negative use of backdoors?
Jonathan Zdziarski at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York mentioned there were a number of previously undocumented “forensic services” and “surveillance mechanisms” within apple iOS.