Non-indexed Internet content represent 95% of the web.
Bad news for hackers, hackers or just anyone concerned about their privacy: the US military would have developed a search engine capable of analyzing all available data on the Internet, including non-indexed data by engine traditional search such as Google. Officially, of course, personal data is not collected. Officially ...
Memex: the ultimate search engine army
Developed over several years with an estimated budget between 10 and 20 million dollars, here Memex, a contraction of "Memory" and "Index". And that's DARPA, the branch of the US Army specialized in networks that is just behind the modern Internet, which is responsible for its creation.
The purpose of Memex? Know everything about what is happening on the Internet. Data from traditional search engines but also non-indexed data that are web pages, IP addresses ... and especially the contents of the so-called "Deep Web", the dark side of the Internet, represent 95% of the data available on the Internet.
So goodbye to anonymity on the Deep Web and especially on the Tor network, well known pirates Memex could index that too.
The fight against crime ... and how PRISM drifts?
Officially Memex has been developed to assist in investigations, especially concerning illegal activities of drug sales, prostitution or pedophilia. Networks specializing in organized crimes in fact use widely secure and Deep Web networks; we will remember the Silk Road trading platform specializing in the sale of drugs and whose founder, Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced by the court February 6, 2015.
Memex even already active: it would have been successfully tested during the Superbowl to control the activities of prostitution. And can not qu'encenser this. Except we can also ask questions.
The Americans have been at the center of the scandal PRISM surveillance program, revealed by Edward Snowden. This new ultra-powerful search engine could thus be used to collect data on the user's knowledge. Able to retrieve the IP address, phone numbers, addresses, and geolocate a device like a laptop or computer, it would be able to identify exactly who and where something is posted on the Internet.
And although officially the purpose of Memex is not to control the common man and destroy his anonymity, he is capable ...
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