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UK cops say visiting the dark web is a potential sign of terrorism

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For those making snarky comparisons to "eating food" or "waking up in the morning"...

If I had a group of people, and wanted to find out the terrorist, which would be a more useful metric for raising my probability of discovering them?

  1. The person eats food
  2. The person wakes up in the morning
  3. The person uses the dark web

It doesn't mean everyone using the dark web is a terrorist -- but no one said that. It means that it's a useful metric when trying to spot terrorists.

Pair it with other useful metrics and you have a good algorithm for who to keep an eye on.

something about the phrase "visiting the dark web" just makes me laugh; it sounds so nonchalant.

anyway, vice doesn't do journalism.

> vice doesn't do journalism

Really? I like vice and certainly enjoy their brand of coverage vs other offerings. Why do you say they "aren't journalists"?

100% of all terrorists consumed food within 72 hours of their attack/attempted attack. We need to stop being so gutless and just ban food altogether.

With this line of thinking i guess so is waking up in the morning?

That might be a stretch, because most people wake up in the morning, and most people don't visit the dark web. I think a better analogy would be visiting places with high crime rates, like bad parts of cities and such.

Be careful when you buy that book about buildings, criminals live in buildings!!

Sounds about the right level of logic for upper echelons of UK police, who also for the most part still live in the 17th century...

I wouldn't be surprised if they thought online piracy was kids building ships in Minecraft...

UK managed to break Enigma Machine in WWII, and discover public-key cryptography way before it was public.

Safe to assume that they know way more things.. about things... than you or I do.

Ok I am curious. I guess you do visit dark web -- do you mind sharing with us: for what purposes?

Again, just curious, not arguing anything.

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