Stephen E Arnold is the author of Dark Web Notebook and CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access. At the October 2023 Mass. & NY Association of Crime Analysts, he delivered the keynote talk about the Dark Web's change in 2023. He began his career at Halliburton Nuclear, moving to Booz, Allen & Hamilton. In the early days of the Internet, he co-founded The Point, an online search system acquired by Lycos in 1996. He and his partner (Chris Kitze) then founded Xoom.com, one of the first video sites on the Internet in 1998. NBC acquired Xoom in 2000 and merged it into the NBC Snap division. In 2000 he accepted a role working for President William J. Clinton's "index the US government project."Shortly after 9/11, he and his team helped develop the Threat Open Source Intelligence Gateway (TOSIG) which operated until 2009 as a stand-alone OSINT service. Between 2003 and 2006, he wrote three monographs about Google's information ecosystem for financial institutions. The redacted versions of these proprietary reports were published by Infonortics Ltd., a British specialist company. In 1986, He was the recipient of the American Society for Information Scientists' Eagleton Award for his contributions to online information. He was similarly recognized in 2007 by the State of New York with its Malcom Hill Lectureship Award. In 2008, he received OSS Inc.'s Golden Candle Award for his Lifetime Contributions to open source intelligence. He has lectured to the US Executive Branch cyber attorneys, Sweden's Armed Forces training center, ISS TeleStrategies intelligence conferences, Infraguard conferences in Kentucky and North Carolina, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and a number of other organizations about topics related to acquiring and leveraging digital content. Stephen may be reached at sa@arnoldit.com.