The Undernet
July 12, 2008 by Todd Miller
Just as the real-world has black-markets, illegal activity, etc… an “Underworld”, the Internet has “The Undernet”. Web sites, forums, message boards, blogs, file servers, etc. These are parts of the Internet that Black Hats use to conduct fraudulent activity, and even have discussions about such activity. Most of the actual Undernet exists, hidden from the general population of the Internet, behind password-protected resources that block crawling by search engines. If you are able to locate Undernet resources through standard Internet searching techniques, like an iceberg, what you are able to see makes up a very small portion of what lies beneath-the-surface.
Interestingly, an “Open Source” attitude towards sharing ‘techniques’ is displayed by a minority, but still significant, portion of the Undernet ‘community’.
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