18 February 2017

The New Security


A video about the dark web led me to some pretty strange places the last few days. I don't mean strange places on the dark web itself. This is different.

I sometimes do what I call a drunkard's walk through the internet. That's where a random subject will lead me on a chain of discovery that ends up far away from where I started. My favorite example is the night I went from reading about the mutiny on the Bounty and ended up ready to order beekeeping supplies. There's a connection, although it might not be obvious at first.

Something similar happened when I looked into the dark web. I'm not interested in visiting the place myself, but it led me to some other interesting subjects: cryptocurrency and online security.