The SilverLining Project: Finding Social Good in Clouds on the Dark Web

Overview. Wave after wave of increasingly spectacular data breaches are exposing personal information about billions of people, companies, countries, and other organizations around the world. The dark web includes some of this information and every manner of other content — legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, innocuous and offensive, authentic and fraudulent. The damage these activities are causing is well known. What is not known, and what we are now studying, is whether we might be able to find a silver lining in these dark clouds by creating some social good out of all this chaos. If you know of data or information like this that might be useful for academic research, we would appreciate hearing from you.