Exploring the colors of the dark web

[ UUID ] 493bfcee-28ef-4571-b0a5-d61020ea4cec

[ Session Name ] Exploring the colors of the dark web [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Privacy and Security

[ Submitter's Name ] Satwik Kansal [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Delhi Technological University [ Submitter's GitHub ] satwikkansal

[ Language ] Hindi

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

What will happen in your session?

The attendees will be

Shown the steps they can follow to see what all information do sites like Google and Facebook capture about them.
Asked what they think about the “dark web” (busting the myths)
Understand concepts like “Surface Web”, “Deep Web”, and the “Darknet”.
A few volunteers from the audience will roleplay a couple of simple scenarios that demonstrate working of TOR.
Go through the process of setting up system for browsing .onion sites using TOR Browser, and to publish hidden websites on TOR network.
Interact with each-other by accessing the newsboard like site published in the session.
Familiarized with the darknet ecosystem (typical things they'll see, safety tips)
Play quiz

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The Deep web isn’t all dark and the Dark Web has a bright side as well!

Dark-web usually has a bad perception in the minds of people. The session aims at unveiling the “bright side” of the dark-web to the attendees by making them

Realize the benefits (no-censorship, liberty, no-ads, etc) of the dark-web.
Understand the innovative technologies behind darknet ecosystem (TOR, escrow based crypto payments, etc)
Aware of the illegal activities claimed to happen on the Darknet, and ways to stay away from them.
Realize how it's practically impossible to shut down Darknet and why “deciding if dark-web is useful for us” is a better option than “Staying away due to the mythical fear”.

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For the roleplay activities

Few boxes of varying size which can fit inside one another.
Pen, paper and post-it notes.

Time needed

90 mins