PSCI-3054: The Dark Web and Threat Analytics
Description: Introduction to dual-use anonymity-granting technologies such as the Dark Web. Covers open source threat intelligence as a technique to assess trends and trajectories in anonymous online content. Substantive topics include the use of Dark Web technologies for political expression in repressive regimes, anonymity and privacy protection in an age of big data as well as the misuse of these tools for doxing, trolling, and the creation of illegal markets for drugs, guns, malicious software, human trafficking, and child abuse imagery. Junior Standing
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Sections Taught: 6
Average GPA: 3.58 (A-)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 37.73%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 3.33%
| Eric H Jardine | 2022 | 65.3% | 25.2% | 2.6% | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4.0% | 3.50 | 5 |
| Aaron F Brantly | 2024 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.00 | 1 |