1. Occurrence of netstalking

2. Methods of netstalking

3. Search areas
     Surface web    Deep web    Darknet or Dark web  

4. Major finds of netstalkers

5. Legends
     “Death files”    Map of Internet Levels    Silent House  

6. Criticism

7. Also

8. References

9. External links

Occurrence of netstalking

The idea of netstalking is associated with the name of Jon Rafman, an artist from Canada.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} Rafman is considered one of the pioneers of the multimedia artists movement—the main inspiration of which is the Internet. Rafman's activity is to search on Google Street View service for unique images taken by Google's bot. He included the most interesting finds in his project “Nine Eyes of Google Street View”, which later became a multimedia exhibition. According to Rafman, the artist spent 8-12 hours on the Internet everyday in search for incredible and strange frames.^[3] For example, on Google Maps, you can find non-existent city streets that are not marked on the map and invisible to uninformed people.^[4][5]

Methods of netstalking

In netstalking, there are two methods for finding unusual information: a daily-search and a net-random.^[6] Daily-search is a targeted search for objects of interest whose characteristics are already known. This method usually uses the language of search queries and web archives, with which you can view old or deleted versions of these pages. Net-random searches for hidden and unknown information through the process of “trial and error”. For netstalkers, the second method is considered to be the most popular way to search for information, as it allows network researchers to find undefined hidden resources. Net-random is a scan of IP address ranges using randomizers. Special programs are used for scanning include Advanced IP scanner, Nmap / Zenmap, NESCA, and RouterScan by Stas’m.

Search areas

In the field of analysis of netstalkers, the entire Internet, which is traditionally divided into several conditional segments.

Surface web

The surface web is the public Internet. In this part, you can find everything that is used by the average user of the network: social networks, blogs, encyclopaedias, news sites and others. In other words, the surface web is all that can be found using ordinary search engines (Google, Yahoo and others). The surface web accounts for about 15-20% of all information on the Internet.^[7]

Deep web

The deep web is made of non-indexable resources that cannot be found with the help of search engines. This happens for several reasons. The main one is that only the owner knows about the site or server, and he has never published a link to his page anywhere. Deep web is of greatest interest to network researchers because of its vastness and non-knowledge. Netstalkers use programs to scan ranges of IP addresses to study this segment.

Darknet or Dark web

The darknet is closed Internet space which cannot be accessed using network programs. These are government, corporate or military networks. The most famous and popular representative of Darknet is Tor. Its popularity is due to the possibility of distributing prohibited materials under conditions of some anonymity. To view it, special software is needed, namely Tor, I2P, Freenet, or other services that allow the user to bypass the blocking of many sites. This gives access to restricted resources that are inaccessible to ordinary Internet users. Such resources cannot be accessed from standard browsers even if there is a standard internet connection. Darknet can be dangerous for inexperienced users, children, and ordinary users.^[8]

Major finds of netstalkers

Usually in the hidden segments of the Internet, netstalkers find a net-art. Jon Rafman's “Nine Eyes of Google Street View” project is one of the largest highlights of net-art. A distinctive feature of net-art is the fact that it is the surface Internet that can be its primary environment for its creation and distribution.^[9] Also, netstalkers find recordings from surveillance cameras and view them in search of strange or interesting events. Another direction is network archeology—that is, the search for once popular, but now forgotten resources, including outdated protocols. An interesting fact is that netstalkers have found unprotected servers of NPPs and state structures, however, such findings, as a rule, are of no use to network researchers. They have no purpose to steal state-important files.

Legends

“Death files”

The legend of “death files” began in the 1990s, when the theory of the harm of the 25th frame was spread. The essence of the deadly video was that the viewer who saw it, would subsequently commit suicide. This theory was associated with the influence of children's animated series on the psyche of adolescents. It was later proved that multi-series cartoons do not have a relationship with suicides, and the headache was caused by the placebo effect. “Death files” in the form of frightening commercials with artificially created sound effects are among the legendary elements of non-pushing. Under the guise of such records are usually distributed strange or frightening, saturated with special effects videos without a clear plot.

Map of Internet Levels

The map of Internet levels is the most famous legend, it is also called the “All Internet” and “Network Levels”. According to this legend, pages D are located at the D level, accessible to the average user, and at the B level and below are the most paranormal and unexplored places of the network, such as: “Transition”, nonexistent IP and protocols, level B of YouTube, Silent House.

In fact, the Internet scheme is only a frightening mystical legend and a source of memes for netstalkers. However, the scheme has attracted the attention of newcomers so far and has become the starting point for the spread of another famous legend about the Silent House.^[10]

Silent House

Silent House is the successful project of memo-science, which originated around 2011, in Synthetical Science. The authors of this project claimed that Silent House is the last point on the bottom of the network. The person who got into the Silent House, according to legend, had to learn the truth and disappear. Later, the legend acquired new mystical details and details, and Silent House became a symbol of the unknown part of the networked world. Many netstalkers in 2011-2013 really tried to find a Silent House, but the searches were unsuccessful. Later, one of the participants in Synthetical Science confirmed that Silent House is a hoax designed to stimulate interest in netstalking.

Criticism

Because of the aura of mystery around the activities of the netstalkers and their legends, they first attracted the attention of the administrators of the “death groups”, and then law enforcement agencies became interested in their activities. Net-art, images and legends were actively used by administrators of the forbidden “death groups” for their own promotion. For example, the legend of the “Silent House”, recognised by the creators as fiction, has acquired a cult and suicidal meaning.^[11] The baseless accusations of suicide propaganda forced netstalkers to leave the Internet and go into the dark web, which led to a deep crisis of netstalking as a cultural phenomenon.

Netstalking participants criticised themselves claiming that few people are engaged in a detailed analysis of what was found even with advanced search skills. In addition, according to some, netstalking harms the presence of artificially created mysticism. It is opposed by them to the “natural gravitation to the unknown”, the driving force of netstalking.^[12]

Also

• World Wide Web
• Internet
• Surface web
• Deep web
• Darknet
• Tor

References

External links

• {{URL|https://github.com/netstalking-core/netstalking-catalogue|Catalog of netstalker resources — Github}}
• {{URL|https://t.me/netstalking|Netstalking telegram channel}}

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