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Booming e-business and tight censorship: China wants to have the internet�both ways

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President Xi Jinping voiced the idea of �cyberspace sovereignty�, an unambiguous announcement that Beijing will step up its censorship and control of the internet.

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The problem for Beijing is that it wants to contain the role of the internet in fanning radical social changes, in the way social media facilitated the Arab Spring�movement. But it also wants to use the internet to upgrade its economy.

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restricted information flows hurt economic activities.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/booming-e-business-and-tight-censorship-china-wants-to-have-the-internet-both-ways-2016-11

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Welcome to the Dark Net, a wilderness where wars are fought and hackers roam.

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The Dark Net exists within the deep web, which lies beneath the surface�net, which is familiar to everyone. The surface net can be roughly defined as �anything you can find through Google� or that is otherwise publicly indexed for all to see. The�deep web is deep because it cannot be accessed through ordinary search engines. Its size is uncertain, but it is believed to be larger than the surface net above it. And it is�mostly legitimate. It includes everything from I.R.S. and Social Security data to the internal communications of Sony and the content management system at�The New York�Times. It includes Hillary Clinton�s e-mails and text messages, along with everyone else�s. Almost all of it is utterly mundane.

Through the eyes of a master hacker turned security expert, William Langewiesche chronicles the rise of the Dark Net�where weapons, drugs,�and information are bought, sold, and hacked�and learns how high the stakes have really become.

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The Dark Net occupies the basement. Its users employ anonymizing software and encryption to hide themselves as they move around. Such tools offer a measure of privacy.�Whistle-blowers and political dissidents have good reason to resort to them. Criminals do, too. White fades quickly through gray and then to black in the Dark Net.

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The real action on the Dark Net is in the trade of information. Stolen credit cards and identities, industrial secrets, military secrets, and especially the fuel of the hacking�trade: the zero days and back doors that give access to closed networks.

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A short-lived back door to the iPhone operating system may sell for a million dollars.

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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/welcome-to-the-dark-net