Hiding online: your own private Internet.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Citings - Brief article

A "DARKNET" is a private online network that's invisible to the rest of the Internet. Foreign dissidents, domestic whistleblowers, jewel thieves, and other parties who have strong incentives to keep their online activities secret have been using darknets for years. But creating them currently requires cumbersome software and a fair amount of geek prowess.

That may soon change. Billy Hoffman and Matt Wood, two Hewlett-Packard employees who specialize in security and networks, have created a new browser-based darknet tool called Veiled. By their account, the software makes it much simpler to create a darknet quickly and offers easy-to-use encryption protocols. This would allow private communication clusters to form and dissolve smoothly while remaining completely...