{"id":210,"date":"2008-10-17T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2008\/10\/17\/dark_secrets_on_the_internet\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T09:22:12","slug":"dark_secrets_on_the_internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2008\/10\/17\/dark_secrets_on_the_internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark secrets on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was struck by news<\/a> this morning that police have taken action against an internet forum called DarkMarkets, used for swapping information about stolen credit cards and website accounts. It sounds like Nature Network for criminals – it would be fascinating to observe the style of interaction on such a site. Just to balance things up I also read this morning about GPEN<\/a> – the Global Prosecutors E-Crime Network. Its purpose is international cooperation against e-crime.
\nIt just goes to show that the web is neither inherently good nor inherently bad but reflects the whole range of human activity. This is an argument that we have to make over and over again it seems. Fifteen years ago when the internet was new, those of us evangelising about it often had to reassure people that there was useful information online, and they shouldn’t believe scare stories. This message took a long time to reach some quarters, such as NHS IT managers<\/a> who apparently felt the Internet was evil and should not be allowed into their hospitals.
\nToday things have moved on and internet access is commonplace. The front line has moved on to social networking sites, Second Life etc. I know that a number of my colleagues in the NHS, professional bodies and even some research institutes are barred by their local IT policies from accessing dangerous sites such as Yahoogroups, Facebook and even blogs. There are groups looking at Second Life in the NHS<\/a> but access is blocked for the majority in the NHS.
\nLibrarians have for long championed the cause of unrestricted access to information. It can be a hard message to get across sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was struck by news this morning that police have taken action against an internet forum called DarkMarkets, used for swapping information about stolen credit cards and website accounts. It sounds like Nature Network for criminals – it would be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}