File-swapping on the Internet has gone underground.Last April, the FBI raided the administrative services center of Arizona's Deer Valley Unified School District Deer Valley Unified School District (or DVUSD) is a school district headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. DVUSD the largest school district in the state of Arizona and serves a portions of northern Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria. , looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. music MP3s and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies downloaded illegally over the Internet. Agents arrived at 6 a.m., blocked the offices from the public, and poured through online records and data for most of the day. This action came as the federal justice department launched a new intellectual property task force to step up copyright enforcement, and the district was among sites in several states served with warrants. Deer Valley Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range in the Park City area of northern Utah. Deer Valley is for skiers only, as it prohibits snowboarding. During the 2002 Winter Olympics Deer Valley hosted the freestyle moguls and aerial, and alpine slalom events. Public Information Officer Timothy Tait said he thought the bureau was "looking at actions of individuals, as opposed to the operations of the district." The Underground Internet When the Recording Industry Association of America first America First may refer to:
But now file-swapping on the Internet has gone underground, with the development of secure members-only, by-invitation, password-controlled secret networks known as "darknets." These locations are where files are transferred in encrypted form. (Microsoft engineers coined the term in a paper titled The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution.) A darknet typically consists of a small group of friends who band together to share information hidden from public view. This defeats current attempts to stop the trading of copyright-protected work, so darknets operate with little fear of detection by online robots. A darknet may already be set up in your schools. Darknets are initiated using software purchased or downloaded free over the Internet, such as Direct Connect, Freenet, Groove of Waste. Participants then swap passwords and digital keys for exchanging data using encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. similar to that of online credit-card transactions. Users may be part of several darknets, and joining requires an invitation from a member who supplies the password and the small digital key file. Darknets are therefore even more secure than local intranets, and can also be quickly set up and taken down. But though the term may have sinister connotations, darknets also have great positive potential in sending sensitive information across the Internet such as student and personnel records. For example, GlaxoSmithKline established a darknet to allow its scientists to communicate with researchers at several universities in developing a new obesity drug. Furthermore, the privacy of darknets can circumvent cir·cum·vent tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed, cir·cum·vent·ing, cir·cum·vents 1. To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap. 2. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city. many of the problems that plague the Internet, including viruses, worms, phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. schemes, identity theft and spam. Darknets in Districts Darknets are popping up everywhere, and present new opportunities and supervision challenges for districts. Here are three ways districts are addressing the issue of unauthorized trading. "I spend a large portion of my time monitoring the network for overall usage and this sort of traffic, since swapping music and video can totally consume bandwidth," says Brad Martin, an administrator at Technology & Innovation in Education that services schools in South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). . In Arkansas, Gary Day Gary Day can be either:
Don Benton, director of technology at Arkansas's Hot Springs school district relies on student assistants to help monitor appropriate usage. Still, most educators know little or nothing about darknets, so use the resources below to make sure your staff is informed about what might be happening on your network. Web Resources * The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/msdrm/darknet.htm * Darknet www.darknet.com * Direct Connect www.neo-modus.com * Freenet freenet.sourceforge.net * Groove www.groove.net * Waste waste.sourceforge.net * P2pnet.net p2pnet.net Odvard Egil Dyrli, dyrli@uconn.edu, is senior editor and emeritus professor of education at the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. . |
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