False Identity Research Articles

Tokyo Zentai Club: Subculture or Identity Crisis over Youth in Japan Urban Area?

The rising of urbanization in Japan is going to advance after 1945s, while Japan Government absorb workers excessively to develop infrastructure and economic growth. As a pioneer, many workers from remote provinces gathered in Tokyo, serve the country as salaryman or labor, called Generation X. Owing to them, Japan became a prosperous country in 1980s, but contrary created Generation Y and Generation Z who categorized as a consumptive society, good earned, but lack of spiritually experience self-identity crisis. They joined Tokyo Zentai Club, a community of urban youth living in Tokyo, peculiarly wear colorful-spandex-tight-suit covered head to toe, spending nights by chit-chat inside members. This paper will describe the identity construction of Tokyo Zentai Club members, associated as a form of liquid modernity toward Generation Z. Miura Atsushi through Nihon Yokai-ron, adopted Liquid Modernity concept by Zygmunt Bauman. This concept explains that the personal construction of Generation Z within society is liquid, unrigid, and easy to follow the flow. In this case, means an individual experiencing an identity crisis. It found that Tokyo Zentai Club members claim this action as different ways to express self-identity through false identity. They are classified as sub-problem of unconnected society (muen shakai) try to be a part of liquid society through the urban community. The majority member is Generation Z, who lack personalities and have self-identity crisis affected by the bubble economy burst in 1991. This false identity is used by members as escaping strategy to deal with an urban stressful life and unconnected society in Japan.

False Identity dalam Media Online Dating (Fenomenologi pada Pelaku Catfishing Media Online Dating Tinder)

This study aims to determine the process of a person's interaction on Tinder social media, causing a new phenomenon known as catfishing. This research uses a qualitative approach. The data collection technique was obtained by using in-depth interview techniques. The results of the study show that the self-presentations displayed by Tinder users are not using their real photos or identities. The scope of self-presentation shown in this study does not extend to false identity or paint through identity theft. Tinder users in this study tended to use their original photos that they had edited to look better and closer to the ideal Tinder users liked, use their old photos that were considered better and closer to ideal, blur their original photos, use their real photos but not using real names, to using photos of objects or objects that interest them to show their interests and hobbies to other users. In this study, there were no users who used other people's existing identities either by using other people's photos or identities that showed someone who was in real life.

Development of a regional voice dataset and speaker classification based on machine learning

At present, voice biometrics are commonly used for identification and authentication of users through their voice. Voice based services such as mobile banking, access to personal devices, and logging into social networks are the common examples of authenticating users through voice biometrics. In Pakistan, voice-based services are very common in banking and mobile/cellular sector, however, these services do not use voice features to recognize customers. Therefore, the chance to use these services with false identity is always high. It is essential to design a voice-based recognition system to minimize the risk of false identity. In this paper, we developed regional voice datasets for voice biometrics, by collecting voice data in different local accents of Pakistan. Although, there is a global need for voice biometrics especially when voice-based services are common, however, this paper uses Pakistan as a use case to show how to build regional voice dataset for voice biometrics. To build voice dataset, voice samples were recorded from 180 male and female speakers with two languages English and Urdu in form of five regional accents. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features were extracted from the collected voice samples to train Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Random Forest (RF) and K-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifiers. The results indicate that ANN outperformed SVM, RF and KNN by achieving 88.53% and 86.58% recognition accuracy on both datasets respectively.

Rabbi Andre Ungar z’l

Rabbi Ungar was born in Budapest to Bela and Frederika Ungar. The family lived in hiding with false identity papers from 1944 under the German occupation. After the war, a scholarship brought him to the UK where he studied at Jews’ College, then part of University College, and subsequently studied philosophy. Feeling uncomfortable within Orthodoxy, he met with Rabbi Harold Reinhart and Rabbi Leo Baeck and eventually became an assistant rabbi at West London Synagogue. In 1954 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy and was ordained as a rabbi through a programme that preceded the formal creation of Leo Baeck College in 1956. In 1955 he was appointed as rabbi at the progressive congregation in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Very soon his fiery anti-Apartheid sermons were condemned in the Afrikaans newspapers and received mixed reactions from the Jewish community. In December 1956 he was served with a deportation order and was forced to leave the country.

Symbolism of the Double as the Source F.M. Dostoevsky Dostoevsky's Artistic Anthropology

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Double symbolism as the source of personality metaphysics in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky. “The Double” novel is considered by the author as the paradigmatic text in which the principles of key images construction in the late novels of F.M. Dostoevsky were formed. The paper uses the ideas of A.A. Ukhtomsky and E.Ya. Golosovker, who proposed philosophical interpretation of the phenomenon of “duality”. “The Double” is viewed as the source of theology of personality in F.M. Dostoevsky’s works, since it was the first time that the figurative model of the struggle of personality and personality in a man, which most directly revealed the duality of his nature as the created image of God, was developed. The hero’s search for his inner “place” (topos of authenticity) and inner support in the confrontation between the “mask” and then the Double as its ultimate expression, is the main theme of the story. The duality of the “nature” of man, who is both the image and likeness of God, and carries the Original sin, is the traditional theological theme and the theme of Christian anthropology. However, no one developed this theme in fiction with such depth and completeness before F.M. Dostoevsky. “Duality” acts as a special mode of negative self-disclosure of personality by means of elimination of his external false identities. The struggle against the Double is the struggle of the true human nature against its damages by the Original sin. The corrupted nature stands out in the form of the masks of the Doubles, and the genuine nature is fighting them, searching in the soul the highest prototype. The masks are defeated only by positively overcoming them in the inner experience of man. The text of “The Double” is for the first time interpreted as “genre of dreams” and as special “initiation” text aimed at the internal transformation of the reader’s personality.

URGENSI INTEGRASI DAN IMPLEMENTASI MASLAHAH DALAM PROSES MEDIASI

Mediation in the judiciary in Indonesia is still new, cases that are in court must be handled professionally, such family case. This has claimed many victims, both material and life. This study is the orientation of mediation rules and its implications for the settlement of civil cases in the Religious Courts. There are three important aspects that will be discuss in this research, these are: Juridicalphilosophical foundation for integrating mediation in the proceedings at the Religious Courts, The implimentation of mediation in the Religious Courts, maslahah analysis on the integration of mediation in the proceedings at the Religious Courts. This research is socio-legal qualitative research, because it is closely related to the study of the texts in the legislation; by using a state approach and focusing on legal norms and the hierarchy of the rules. The result of this research reveals that; (1) The juridical-philosophical foundation integrated with mediation in the proceedings at the Religious Courts, which is based on PERMA No. 1 of 2008, the mediator of the Religious Court then integrates into facilitative mediation and transformative mediation model. (2) Mediation conducted by the Religious Courts does not only discuss about problems that occur, but also discuss the root of the problem and making a solutions that cannot only be completed in the trial, and also bring benefits to the disputing parties. (3) In general, the integration of mediation in proceedings process in the Religious Court is in Maslahah's perspective, with the existence of Maslahah, by utilizing Al-Maslahah Al- Mu'tabarah, such as; by hastening the implementation of divorce (wife), as a form of state protection to prevent the emergence of suffering and the madharat of both parties. Protection of the soul, to avoid the tyranny of others. Become a catalyst so that the parties become easy to live and protracted problems to realize the path of peace. Protection of human dignity, by making a decision to cancel the marriage for the Plaintiff who as given a false identity.

RETRACTED: Detecting Sybil Attack In Wireless Sensor Networks Using Machine Learning Algorithms

In sensitive areas such as battlefields, a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is especially in military and civilian applications and it is of utmost importance to develop security in these networks. In various respects, this can improve the quality of life. But to be used for protection reasons in multiple situations such as implementation. There is a high risk of being exposed to multiple viruses and hacking attacks. Unauthorized APs for information protection needs to be detected. Any malicious attacks against these networks, Like Sybil Attack leads to breach of security by enacting as a node that illegitimately declares several false identities at the same time. This misleads valid nodes, and they presume each of those identifiers as actual independent nodes by accident. Thus we proposed a machine learning model to detect Sybil attack in network where rawtraffic data has been collected and is used identify authorized and unauthorized APs in an integrated wired/wireless environment.

Critical Race Theory, Wrongful Convictions and Disparate Exonerations of Minority and White Youths in the United States

Race is central to every aspect of the criminal justice system in the United States. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in 2013, black males accounted for 37 percent of the total male prison population in the United States with white males accounting for only 32 percent followed by Hispanic males at 22 percent respectively. In the general population, however, Black males comprise only 6 percent of the total males population while White males constitute 31 percent of the total males population in the U.S. followed by Hispanic males who make up 8.4 percent of the total male population. The conviction of innocent defendants is quite disturbing regardless of race or ethnicity. Nothing is more glaring of this phenomenon than when one considers that African American males make up only 6 percent of the total males population but are reported as committing 52 percent of the murders. It is widely known that the lack of formal processes and constitutional due process in the juvenile justice system and the potential for substantial deprivations of children’s liberty through extensive periods of incarceration has been pervasive, persistent, and ongoing in this country (Juvenile Justice Center, 2020). Critical Race Theory has done nothing less than shed more light on the predictability of youth treatment landing them behind bars for lengthy prison sentences for crimes in which they frequently did not commit. Critical Race Theory falls short, however, of offering any plausible explanations for why so many minority youths are falsely imprisoned. Other theories must be considered as plausible explanations for this phenomenon of disparate treatment between the races whether it be police shooting, disparate convictions and incarceration or racial profiling. These theories include Racial Conflict Theory, Racial Threat Theory and Petit Apartheid Theory. The core idea of Critical Race Theory is that racism does not stop at the individua level, but it is systemic or system-wide and ingrained in our policies, in our legal systems and institutions. Critical Race Theory has absolutely nothing to do with “punishing kids for their skin color or making young white kids feel guilty for being white no more than critical thinking is criticizing someone for well thinking. Critical Race Theory is a dialogue for raising awareness of policies and practices that have had a disproportionately negative impact on racial minorities in particular and youth in general irrespective of race. There were 2,310 people serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed as juveniles (known as JLWOP) at the end of 2016. This study examines the data extracted from the national registry of exonerations in the United States on every known exoneration from 1989 to 2020. Contributing factors to such disparate convictions among young African American males such as false confessions, mistaken identity, false accusations, witness tampering, perjury or false statements under oath particularly by police officers, prosecutorial misconduct, inadequate legal defense, and mistaken witness identification are highlighted and discussed as major contributing factors to the exoneree’s eventual release. This study assumes the position that, although all lives matter, it appears that African American Male Youths are more disproportionate among the population of those exonerated for crimes that they did not commit. The study proffers policy implications and policy changes that appear to be viable solutions to this egregious and tragic abuse of humankind.

The alienating effect of assimilating false identities induced by virtual reality

Self-awareness implies a self-referentiality that accompanies any event carried out in the waking state and is a condition for the regulation of human behaviour. The key elements in the evolution of self-consciousness and subjectivation are the processes of symbolization and identification which allow the gradual shaping of an identity. In the last decade, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, in all social fields there has been a general reorientation from reality to virtual reality, with consequences for the normal process of the identity development. Vulnerable categories, such as children and mentally ill people, are strongly influenced by this shift, with a change in the psychiatric phenomenology.

SYMBOLISM OF THE DOUBLE AS A SOURCE OF PERSONALITY METAPHYSICS IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’s CREATIVITY

The article analyzes the symbolism of the Double as a source of personality theology by F.M. Dostoevsky. The novel “The Double” is considered as a paradigmatic text in which the principles of construction of key images in the late novels of F.M. Dostoevsky were formed. The paper uses the ideas of A.A. Ukhtomsky and E.Ya. Golosovker, who proposed a philosophical interpretation of the phenomenon of “duality”. The novel “The Double” is considered as a source of personality theology of F.M. Dostoevsky, since it was the first time that the figurative model of the struggle between man’s personality and mask-face, which most directly reveals the duality of his nature as the created image of God, was developed. The hero’s search for his inner “place” (topos of authenticity) and inner support in the confrontation between the “mask” and then the Double as its ultimate expression is the main theme of the story. The duality of the “nature” of man, who is both the image and likeness of God, and carries the Original sin, is a traditional theological theme and the theme of Christian anthropology. However, by means of fiction it was not developed by anyone in such depth and completeness as F.M. Dostoevsky. “Duality” acts as a special mode of negative self-disclosure of the personality by means of its elimination of its external false identities. The struggle against the Double is the struggle of the true nature of man with his damage by Original sin. Corrupt nature is in the form of masks of Doubles, and genuine - he is fighting them, searching in his soul for the highest type. The masks are overcome only by their positive survival in the inner experience of man. The text of the novel “The Double” is at first interpreted as a “genre of dreams” and as a special “initiation” text aimed at the internal transformation of the reader’s personality.

Cybercrime: A Challenge to Law Enforcement

Abstract When comparing 100 years ago and today, we always mention the social, economic and political changes that have influenced the emergence and development of the opportunities that we have today, with special emphasis on technological changes. Technology has evolved so fast that it seems that in the blink of an eye something new has just hit the market. Whether we like it or not, technology has become part of us, part of our lives, where we upon spend a great deal of the day with at least one of our technological devices with which we perform many tasks. Nowadays there are limitless possibilities of gathering information, business, shop, and almost anything through the internet. Although it is a very easy to make payments online, it can be quite risky, because not every website offers the security and convenience for purchasing the product we want and we may have doubts whether the money we have paid has gone to the right place and for the specific service, which we have paid for. The Internet has many positive as well as negative aspects, since it also carries great danger because it is much easier to hind behind a false identity and commit illegal acts. Cybercrime presents a new challenge to legal systems, considering that the more individuals use computer, and the Internet, the more the interest of hackers and perpetrators to commit these types of crimes increases.

La insoportable soledad de ser un "no ser". Ser un "Don nadie"

This presentation is about the pain and suffering felt by people who, right from early childhood, have been disconnected from their emotions. Lack of affection and insecure attachment bonds are breeding grounds, “kitchens”, where false identities, role reversal or identities of feeling insignificant to their caregivers are cooked; this is what they refer to as being "nobody". Two clinical cases are used to illustrate this way of being in the world. "They might say good or bad things about me, but at least they talk about me", says Antonio, the 41-year-old patient we'll be discussing in this presentation. It is within the patient-therapist bond where patients find an opportunity to learn a new way of interacting and relating to others. Modifying their implicit relational knowing, they have a second chance to build a secure attachment with their therapist. We are emotional beings, regulating emotions through our relations; thus, our principal focus is relationships/interactions. "You're my only support,” says the patient to the therapist, “I can be me, Antonio, with you; but outside I'm Anthony, the dealer and addict". It's from here on that he can forgo feeling "nobody" and gain access to his singularity: simply be himself. This can come about because he has felt listened to and seen by his therapist. Feeling felt helps to build his identity.

"You are in Trouble!": A Discursive Psychological Analysis of Threatening Language in Chinese Cellphone Fraud Interactions.

Currently cellphone fraudsters often use language to threaten and bully victims. From discursive psychological perspective, the present study applies conversation analysis to discuss fraudsters’ threatening language in Chinese cellphone fraud conversations. The authentic data are collected from Chinese media which report legal news or conduct public legal education on the battle against cellphone frauds. Results of the study show that: (1) cellphone fraudsters construct their false identities through information gap and information sharing in their turn-taking designs, which brings victims into the threatening fraud interactions; (2) fraudsters use such conversational skills in a threatening tone as repetition, interruption, higher pitch, louder speech and so on to trigger victims’ psychological panic; (3) fraudsters’ discursive practices are situated for the threatening actions based on prepared and designed scripts. The findings of the study are expected to provide references for preventing cellphone fraud and fighting against fraudsters’ threats and bullies.

Money Laundering, Cybercrime and Criminal Responsibility of Legal Persons

Directives 2015/849 and 2018/843 on money laundering require continuous adaptations of the legal framework to respond to threats of the use of new technologies in money laundering. Directive 2018/843 extends the scope of Directive 2015/849 to ‘providers engaged in exchange services between virtual currencies and fiat currencies, as well as custodian wallet providers’. Undoubtedly, the new payment systems facilitate money launderers’ criminal activity. These systems are better than cash for moving large sums of money, non-face to face business relationships favour the use of straw buyers and false identities, the absence of credit risk, as there is usually a prepaid option, discourages service providers from obtaining complete and accurate customer information, and the nature of the trade and the speed of transactions make it difficult to control property or freezing. However, the development of technologies, including the Internet, has unquestionable advantages involved and even provides, through online resources, verification of identity or other duty of surveillance for the prevention of money laundering. In addition, the reform of June 22, 2010 introduced in Spain the criminal liability of legal persons and incorporated money laundering, together with other crimes, to this innovative model of criminal responsibility. Soon after, Organic Law 1/2015, of March 30, modified the hitherto barely applied regulation. In conclusion, the use of dummy corporations for money laundering is frequent, as is evidenced by the judgements of the Supreme Court of June 26, 2012 and February 4, 2015, but until recently the accessory consequences and the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil were sufficient.

HUKUMAN TINDAK PIDANA PENIPUAN DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN IDENTITAS PALSU DITINJAU DARI HUKUM ISLAM (Analisis Putusan Nomor 164/Pid. B/2016/PN. Bna)

Absrtak: Fraud using false identities is a criminal offense in the Indonesian legal system. The problem of fraud using this has not been sanctioned or punished in Islamic law so that it becomes something worth examining, considering that in the national legal system this problem is regulated in Article 378 of the Criminal Code and specifically fraud using false or deceptive identities, moving others to hand over something to him, or in order to give debt or write off receivables. But that does not mean that in Islamic law there is no penalty for fraud using this false identity. The research enrichment in this thesis is a review of Islamic law on judges' decisions and considerations (No. 164 / pid.Bna / 2016 / PN Bna) regarding fraud cases using fake identities. The purpose of this study was to determine the review of Islamic criminal law against perpetrators of fraudulent crimes using fake identities. By using library research methods and using descriptive data, this research is a descriptive analysis that aims to explain data about fraud using fake identities which are then analyzed with theories in Islamic law. The results of the research show that there is a specific and detailed explanation regarding the definition of fraud using fake identity, but in Islamic law there is no penalty for this crime. So see the similarities with the case of Baitul Maal stamp fraud during the time of Umar bin Khattab who punished the perpetrators with ta'zir punishment, whipping 100 times and exiled a year. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that the punishment for fraud perpetrators using fake identities is ta'zir punishment. Keywords: Fraud, False Identity.

Improved authentication method in embedded networks systems. An autonomous vehicle approach

By adding connectivity to in-vehicle networks (including multimedia devices) and external networks (e.g. wireless and Internet) the attack surface was dramatically extended. In this context, there are several types of attacks already been demonstrated on automotive/AV control networks using compromised network connection or physical manipulation. Subsequently, the success attacks violate safety requirements, being able to disrupt system operation or even to take over operational control. In order to avoid false authentication or identity theft of devices or IoT, this paper proposes a time-based authentication method. The proposed method increases the degree of cybersecurity and allows its implementation on independent, low power mobile devices. Finally, a critical conclusion regarding the proposed authentication methods is presented.

Osmanlı Müelliflerinin Çalışmalarında Zeyd-Zeyneb Hadisesi Bağlamında Voltaire’in “Fanatizm veya Peygamber Muhammed’in Bağnazlığı” Adlı Tiyatro Eseri Üzerine Değerlendirmeler

İslamiyet, tarih sahnesine çıkışından kısa bir süre sonra bu yeni dini kendilerine en büyük rakip olarak gören diğer din mensubu çevrelerin hedefi haline gelmeye başlamıştır. Kısa süre içerisinde İslam’ın Arap Yarımadası’ndan Çin’e ve Ortadoğu’dan Avrupa içlerine kadar yayılması neticesinde başta Hıristiyanlık olmak üzere gayrimüslim dünya İslam’a karşı bir mücadele içerisine girmişlerdir. Girişilen bu mücadele siyasi ve askeri alanda olduğu gibi, ilmî ve kültürel alanda da kendisini göstermeye başlamış ve yalnızca dinin kendisine karşı değil onu tebliğ eden peygamberine yani Hz. Muhammed’e karşı da yürütülmüştür. İslam’ın Doğu’da ve Batı’da kısa zaman içerisinde hızlı bir ilerleyiş sağlaması, Batı toplumunun dikkatlerini bu yeni din üzerine çekti ve onları İslam ve İslâmî ilimler üzerinde birtakım araştırmalara sevk etti. Ancak Avrupalıların bu ilgisi İslam’a olan hayranlıklarından değil, onu yakından tanımak suretiyle hem İslam’a hem de Müslümanlara zarar vermek istemelerinden ileri gelmekteydi. İşte bu doğrultuda Batı dünyası, İslam peygamberi Hz. Muhammed’i küçük düşürmek için haksız ithamlarla karalamaya çalışmışlar ve bu yönde çok sayıda eser yazmışlardır. Bu noktada en çok kullandıkları konu ise Hz. Peygamber’in aile hayatı olmuştur. Hz. Peygamber’in çok eşliliği ve özellikle de evlatlığı Zeyd b. Hârise’nin boşamış olduğu hanımı Zeyneb bint Cahş ile gerçekleştirdiği evlilik, Batılı yazarlar tarafından Hz. Peygamber’i ve onun özelinde de İslamiyet’i eleştiri ve hatta İslam’a saldırı amacıyla kullanılmıştır. İşte bu şekilde Hz. Peygamber ve İslamiyet hakkında tarihî gerçekleri çarpıtarak bir eser ortaya koyanlardan birisi de Fransız yazar Voltaire olmuştur. Voltaire’in kaleme aldığı ve birkaç kez Avrupa tiyatrolarında da sahnelenen Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le Prophete Tragedie / Fanatizm veya Peygamber Muhammed’in Bağnazlığı adlı piyesi başta Osmanlı kamuoyu olmak üzere İslam toplumunda büyük bir infial uyandırmıştır. Bu araştırmamızda konuyla ilgili rivayetler ve yorumlar üzerinden Osmanlı’nın son döneminde yazılmış veya bu dönemde yetişmiş müelliflerin Cumhuriyet döneminde kaleme almış olduğu eserlerde konuya nasıl yaklaşıldığı tespit edilmeye çalışılacak ve onların bir değerlendirmesi yapılacaktır.

‘Everyone was questioning everything’: understanding the derailing impact of undercover policing on the lives of UK environmentalists

ABSTRACT Between 1968 and 2011, over 150 undercover police officers (spycops) covertly infiltrated more than 1000 political groups in the UK, a large majority of which were left leaning . Undercover officers perpetrated a range of harmful practices including deceiving women into sex; fathering children whilst undercover ; active participation in criminality & acting as agent provocateurs; appearing in court under false identities thus contributing to potential miscarriages of justice, as well as using the identities of dead children without obtaining consent from families. Based on qualitative, biographical interviews with spied-on environmentalists, this article explores the impact of undercover policing on the lives of UK activists. It argues that, in addition to the documented harm and trauma caused by spycops, three further dimensions of impact can be identified. These are ontological uncertainty, whereby activists conceptions of a fixed and stable external reality are fundamentally challenged; derailing, whereby activists were diverted away from environmentalism in a number of different ways both pre and post-exposure of spycops, including diversions into anti-state surveillance activism; and finally, resilience, whereby the agency of activists in the face of egregious human rights abuses is evident. The article argues that the concept of derailing can help to conceptualise the chilling effect of state incursions into activism, whilst also accounting for those who maintained their activism following the revelations.

“Guess who I am”

Pragmaticists have investigated identity construction in various social practices. Yet, seldom have they paid attention to false identities assumed in interactions like fraudulence. This study, by resorting to Chen’s (2018) theory on pragmatic identity, investigates 72 real fraud cases in contemporary China, trying to uncover the discursive practices for their fabricated identities and the underlying motivations for these identities. It is found that (i) fabricated identities like the victim identity, the friend/kin identity, the clerk identity, the official identity, and the identity of resourcefulness are often deployed as resources for fraudulent purposes; (ii) speech acts, person-referencing, discourse contents, codes, and sounds of speech are the common discursive practices con artists resort to in fabricating their identities; and (iii) the construction of the fabricated identities results from the con artists’ adaptation to the physical, social, and mental world of their targets. The study broadens the scope of identity construction by focusing on that of fabricated identity.

Nick, Nick. Who’s There? Ethical Considerations When Reporting on the Dark Net

ABSTRACT This article examines ethical considerations of journalists who engage in reporting on the so-called “dark net” using an anonymous nick. Through in-depth interviews with journalists and assignment editors in three Norwegian media houses, the research identifies ethical considerations relating to the research phase, publishing phase and the journalist’s security. The informants adhere to the principles of using false identity as a last resort to reveal information of significant importance to society. Whereas four informants consider the use of nicks as using false identity, two informants challenge such an understanding. This discrepancy might call for an evaluation of whether the present code of ethics is relevant for today’s digital reporting environment. Internal and external transparency is considered essential when using nicks on the dark net for journalistic purposes. The need for documentation is balanced against the need to reduce harm and avoid prosecution due to the illegal character of the content investigated. Keeping one’s nicks secret for future reporting and for source protection is stressed. Encryption and physical distance to those investigated provides protection for journalists. Still, their regular online presence makes them vulnerable to anonymous, digital threats.