Dark Web Analyst Guidance

This class, and its contents, provides an open opportunity for the exchange of ideas, insights, methods of investigation, and exploration regarding the Dark Web and Dark Network-related content and material. Despite best efforts, such networks, by virtue of their anonymous nature can attract morally objectionable, troubling, and disturbing language and imagery that may be upsetting or traumatizing.

The Dark Web council invites students to consider the emotional and mental ramifications of exposure to the (non-exhaustive list of the) following topics:

- Hitmen-for-hire

- Cyberstalking

- Adult pornography

- Sexual abuse

- Child sexual abuse content

- Racial, political, gender, and religious extremist rhetoric

- Illicit drugs

- Weapons

Regardless of the moral and/or legal results of encountering such content, no image, lab, activity, or discussion will pose or encourage direct active exposure to such content. However, lists of links and Dark Web markets, as well as advertisements for such markets and sites, are commonplace as a matter of searching. As a standard facet of instruction, significant focus is placed on the thoughtful and deliberate navigation of such sites to avoid exposure to undesired content.