Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
杰米·巴特利特: 神秘的黑暗网络如何变成主流
In his book "The Dark Net," Jamie Bartlett investigates Internet subcultures, both legal and illegal. Full bio
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low-price cocaine,
anonymous markets.
Chrome or Firefox --
来进入这种网站 --
hidden part of the Internet,
一个隐秘的角落:
numbers and letters that end in .onion,
以.onion(洋葱)结尾,
with a special browser
a U.S. Naval intelligence project.
是一个美国海军情报项目,
by encrypting your IP address
other computers around the world
都在用这个软件的电脑中
clever encryption system,
thousand sites that operate there
在它上面运营的成千上万的网页
visited by anonymous users.
被匿名的人们浏览着。
that it's a natural place to go
need not be illegal.
也许并不是违法的。
commercial hacking services,
商业黑客服务,
interesting, exciting places
although innovation, of course,
只有大的商业企业
一些社会边缘人群中,
the pariahs, the outcasts --
社会底层人群,那些被排斥的存在--
because they have to be.
因为他们不得不这样。
(互联网流行文化lolcat)
on the dark net fairly soon.
anyone in this audience would use it
在座所有人应该去用暗网,
on signing up to one of these sites
you make your choice,
你要做出选择,
preferably not your home address --
应该不会是你的家庭住址 --
to arrive in the post,
is not because of the clever encryption.
是因为那个机智的转换加密系统。
on these sites
to build up a reputation.
累计名声。
to change allegiance whenever they want,
更改他们的昵称,
of positive feedback
在这个网页其他用户反馈中,
of competition and choice
the economists would predict.
经济学家的预测的那样发展下去。
product quality tends to go up,
与此同时产品质量上升。
of special deals, one-offs,
excellent and consistent marijuana
that's also encrypted, of course.
if I buy just one gram of marijuana?"
你能卖给我一克的大麻吗?”
I would, too, if I were you."
如果我是你,我也会这么做。”
with just one gram.
是没有问题的。
English accent, but I assume he did.
但是我认为他有。
of consumer-centric attitude
120,000 pieces of feedback
当我浏览12万条用户反馈,
over a three-month period,
more available, more easily,
可以更加便捷更容易
that is not a good thing.
这不是一件好事。
if you are going to take drugs,
如果你想要吸毒,
of purity and quality,
if you're taking drugs.
from the comfort of your own home,
在家里买到毒品,
with buying on the streets.
to survive in this marketplace.
才能在这个市场中生存下来。
that are currently in operation --
they're not always perfect;
也不是一直都很完美;
was shut down 18 months ago,
在18个月前就被关闭了,
over a billion dollars' worth of trade.
它已经进行了近十亿美金的交易了。
in which they are operating,
thinking of ways of getting smarter,
一直在想办法更机智地营销。
directly back to you.
这会让你的身份暴露。
for real-world currencies
of anonymity to its users.
people noticed a flaw.
人们发现了一个漏洞。
were running away with peoples' bitcoin
called multi-signature escrow payments.
多重签名第三方契约系统。
that I'd sent it,
could then send the product to me,
engaged in the transaction --
a problem with bitcoin,
in a public ledger.
and work out who's behind them.
你就能发现谁在幕后操作。
their bitcoin into one address,
is sent on to the right recipients,
被转账到正确的接受人那里,
right now on the dark net markets?
about what the drugs industry is doing?
担忧现在制毒产业的发展情形?
fair trade organic cocaine.
价格公道的有机可卡因。
from Colombian druglords,
20 percent of any profits
about the morality of these sites --
有何想法 --
actually an easy question --
都不是一个容易的问题 --
competitive, anonymous markets,
竞争激烈的匿名市场,
by the authorities,
of what is to come.
changed many times
as a military project,
to an academic network,
companies in the '90s,
via social media in the noughties,
like the dark net markets --
就像暗网市场 --
about our privacy.
concerns about privacy.
the more we worry about them,
我们就更担心,
our worries are growing.
我们的焦虑正在增长。
what happens to our data.
who might be watching us.
in the number of people
and three million daily users
is perfectly legitimate,
around the world
to keep you private online --
帮助你保护隐私 --
which tries to link up
of millions of computers around the world,
联机起来的项目
that no one really controls.
没有人能够控制。
computing before, of course.
发散性的系统。
to the search for extraterrestrial life.
从Skype聊天到搜索外星生命。
and powerful encryption --
强大的加密系统联系在一起
to censor and control.
works on similar principles.
是相似的系统。
and so on and so on.
等等,等等。
周而复始。
a den for dealers
released his album as a dark net site.
把他新专辑用暗网网站的方式发行。
have opened a dark net site
已经建立了一个暗网网站,
about regeneration projects.
every social media company,
每一个社交网站公司,
in this audience,
在这里听我说话,
more interesting,
if you care about liberty.
about democracy.
for illegal pornography
that's going to win out, but both.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jamie Bartlett - Social media analystIn his book "The Dark Net," Jamie Bartlett investigates Internet subcultures, both legal and illegal.
Why you should listen
As the director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, a leading UK think tank, Jamie Bartlett is currently involved in projects on crypto-currencies, surveillance and counter-surveillance methods and ISIS’s use of social media for propaganda and recruitment. He is a vocal columnist and commentator and the author of The Dark Net, a book on legal and illegal internet subcultures. Previously, he conducted field research in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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