Research of prohibited content distribution mechanisms in the darknet

In this paper was researched such an issue as prohibited content spreading in the Darknet. Author reviews different ways of data distribution and effective actions against them. The article describes an experiment which was conducted to analyze the extent of the problem and studying the principles o...

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Main Authors: Alexey A. Frolov, Dmitry S. Silnov
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: The Fund for Promotion of Internet media, IT education, human development «League Internet Media» 2017-12-01
Series:Современные информационные технологии и IT-образование
Subjects:
Tor
Online Access:http://sitito.cs.msu.ru/index.php/SITITO/article/view/325
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Summary:In this paper was researched such an issue as prohibited content spreading in the Darknet. Author reviews different ways of data distribution and effective actions against them. The article describes an experiment which was conducted to analyze the extent of the problem and studying the principles of content distribution, for example, one of the sites where the distribution of child pornography, which was the main object of study. During the experiment for collection and analysis of information of the investigated resource the software package was implemented. Received by results of work of modules of software complex data containing the number of active users of the resource, the number created by the video and other content, allow us to estimate the magnitude of the problem. These results prove the assumption that methods used to combat the spread of illicit content, not cope with its task, and the number continues to grow, especially on the resources of the network Darknet. In the final part of the paper provides a set of methods which the author suggests using in future works in which it is planned to try to stop the distribution of content on such sites.
ISSN:2411-1473