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Darknet's The Black holes Of The Internet
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Darknet's The Black holes Of The Internet
Black Holes & Darknet's
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A “Black Hole” can be defined many ways. One definition is “An area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds speed of light”, another is “A great void or abyss”, and yet another and more relevant definition is “What data has fallen into if it disappears mysteriously between its origin and destination sites” For instance, an e-mail that never reaches it’s destination and sender never receives a bounce or undeliverable message.
Darknet's - The Internet – A Million Points Of Light
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Just for a moment, try to visualize Internet like a clear night sky with millions of stars. Some stars are dim while others are bright, and others appears to blink on an off. Now turn your attention to what you “don’t” see. What appears to be black spaces between stars in night sky. In many cases, there are stars there, just to faint to see with naked eye. However, great voids of darkness could be result of a black hole, an area of space where nothing that goes in, not even light, can escape.
There are places like this on Internet. Some are there by accident, maybe through incorrect configuration of a router or group of Internet hosts. But there are those areas of Internet dark space that are there quite on purpose. Darknet’s, unlike honey nets or honey pots, where malicious activity can be monitored and recorded, appear as black holes in Internet address space. Any data, communications, or request that falls into a Darknet is lost for ever. The sending host never receives a response.
