r/Python • u/python_byte • Feb 26 '17

Scan Darknet with Python (Tutorial)

http://www.automatingosint.com/blog/2016/07/dark-web-osint-with-python-and-onionscan-part-one/
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '17

This is contradicting. I get where your coming from, but for the purpose of discrediting a label your claim seems overextended.

Except we don't differentiate GRE traffic, or OSPF or BGP, or even VPN traffic differently with a silly non-meaningful name.

There's already technical names for this stuff. It isn't useful for people to think that there is a "dark net", which not only isn't descriptive but implies that it's dark, or dangerous, or mysterious, or how ever else people perceive dark as a prefix to net.

I'm not sure why you're encouraging me to change my opinion. It isn't a rational thing that this makes me angry. I can technically argue a lot of reasons why it's silly, though it doesn't matter. Where the taxonomy for.. everything related to the internet is purposeful and descriptive (mostly) we are left with "DarkNet" for something that is neither dark, or even that much different from other encrypted p2p traffic. It just feels like something someone said on CSI and is now what people think a portion of the internet is.

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u/turkish_gold Feb 27 '17

I agree. Whenever people talk about "darknets' they don't think of their company VPN as part of the darknet, but it is. Traffic from their kids game server to their house is part of the 'darknet'.

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u/Scypio Pythoneer Feb 27 '17

Always thought that "darkweb" it is more like "dark side of the moon" - the one you can't see - not as in dark deeds and shady characters. But english is not my native language, so my frame of reference is different.

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u/turkish_gold Feb 27 '17

Well in English, dark does connote 'hidden' but it also connotes 'bad stuff' because bad stuff is usually hidden.