Posted on 04/14/2010 10:55:19 PM PDT by Cindy
"DIY 'DARK WEB' CRAWLER"
SNIPPET: "I chafe at the notion that there is a Dark Web™ where bad guys lurk and good men fear to tread. There is no Dark Web™. Just turn a damn light on and take a look around."
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
Previously...
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006821.html
11 April 2010
“TOP TEN JIHADI FORUMS 11 APRIL 2010”
http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006313.php
13 April 2010
“ARABIC-READING JIHADIS ONLINE, SPRING 2010”
SNIPPET: “Data: 200+ IP addresses collected from a number of the more prominent forums, more or less in order of their current ranking.
Collection Period: 48 hours this Spring.”
SNIPPET: “Speculation: I can compare this data with previous collections, but when it comes to understanding the present or seeing into the future, the comments above should be seen for what they are - well-informed speculation, at best.”
Previously...
“Web spy software hacks into secretive online forums”
13 April 2010 by Shehryar Mufti
SNIPPET: “However, many websites are protected by security restrictions that fend off such software. Screening out all traffic from IP addresses belonging to well-known search engines is one way to do this.
The dark web can provide a haven for extremist groups to exchange ideas, says Hsinchun Chen, director of the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. So Chen and his team devised software to access and index protected online forums (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.21323).”
stepping back in time...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924271/posts
Project seeks to track terror Web posts
Yahoo.com ^ | 11/11/2007 | ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Posted on November 11, 2007 1:22:11 PM PST by CRBDeuce
At Univ of Arizona, “The Dark Web project aims to scour Web sites, forums and chat rooms to find the Internet’s most prolific and influential jihadists and learn how they reel in adherents.
Lab director Hsinchun Chen hopes Dark Web will crimp what he calls “al-Qaida University on the Web,” the mass of Web sites where potential terrorists learn their trade, from making explosives to planning attacks. Experts said they are not aware of any comparable effort, though some said the project may have only limited applications.” more at [href]”Yahoo”[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_hi_te/dark_web;_ylt=Ag9H_IrfHRhz5S5Q_a_Hro9U.3QA[/url][/href]
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‘DARK WEB’/WTF? ping.
ADDING to post no. 2:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2491072/posts
Top Ten Jihadi Forums 11 April 2010
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | 11 April 2010 | n/a
Posted on April 11, 2010 2:51:21 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “The following Top Ten list is ordered according relative importance, both to the jihadis and to those who monitor their online activities, with preference given to sites which consistently offer up content that is unique to the particular site and community of users.”
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
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Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2307448/posts
“TOP TEN” LIST OF JIHADI FORUMS FOR 03 AUGUST 2009
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 3, 2009 | n/a
Posted on August 3, 2009 3:24:12 PM PDT by Cindy
03 August 2009 “TOP TEN” LIST OF JIHADI FORUMS FOR 03 AUGUST 2009
It’s been almost a year since a failure of truly epic proportions brought down the most significant websites of the global jihad, on or about 10 September, 2008. A year before that failure, the same sites were the target of a citizen-based effort to drive them off of the Internet. This 2007 campaign against the jihadi forums had the effect of encouraging the creation of a number of new sites, while other forums (e.g. al-Hanein) loosened their membership requirements. The net result was that the events of 2008 found the web of jihadi sites more resilient in the face of calamity than they might otherwise have been. Here now is my currently list of the Top Ten such sites. In this case I have ranked them roughly according to their significance, but the ordering is still somewhat arbitrary: The most active sites are not necessarily the most significant in terms of content, the sites with the most members may have a great many inactive members still on the rolls, the older sites may not be entirely jihadist in nature, and so on.
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
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