People
nowadays using the internet mainly for social media sites, streaming sites,
forums, and other websites that can fulfill peoples work, entertainment, and
recreation and since the internet is has a vast amount of information that can
be search by search engines anything can be easily access it but there are more
things that we don’t know about the internet and if you’ll compare it to an
iceberg the amount of information that the internet hold Is only the tip of it
and the rest if submerge, hidden to the eyes of the search engines which they
call this the Deep Web.
The Deep
Web, also known as the Deepnet, Invisible Web, or Dark Net, is a World Wide
Content that can’t be reach by normal search engine’s web crawlers. The surface
web only covers the 4% of the whole information in the internet and the 96% of
it is mostly in the Deep Web. Deep Webs web sites has a different domain name compared
to your regular domain names and can’t be accessed by normal web browsers, but
unfortunately majority of the population of the Deep Web is made up of drug
dealers, hackers, hitmans, and pedophiles.
Tor,
previously known as The Onion Router, is a web browser that can access the Deep
Web that improves the privacy and the security of the user. Using Tor you can
search the Deep Web anonymously where they can’t be track by people since it
can alter the user’s IP address. Using
Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as
"traffic analysis." Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is
talking to whom over a public network. Knowing the source and destination of
your Internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests.
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| This is the interface of Tor browser. Copied from the Mozilla Firefox. |
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| This is how the Tor Network works |
The
Hidden Wiki
The Hidden Wiki is
a censorship-resistant wiki operating as a Tor hidden service that anyone can anonymously edit. The main page serves
as a directory of links to other .onion sites.
As a hidden service, The
Hidden Wiki operates through the .onion pseudo top-level domain which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. Its main page provides a community-maintained link
directory to other hidden services, including links to money laundering, contract killing, cyber-attacks for hire, contraband chemicals, and bomb making. The rest of the wiki is essentially
uncensored and offers links to sites hosting child pornography.
But with the recent attack on Hidden Wiki bringing it down by unknown group the
child pornography section was remove for the sake of bringing back the Hidden
Wiki to its service.
Bitcoin,
one of the popular cryptocurrency or a digital medium of exchange, can be used
to purchase something in the deep web may either be a labor, an item, or
information with these currency you can anonymously trade it to other people
making your information unknown to others. Cryptocurrency can be exchange from
an actual money and also has different rates from time to time depending on the
amount people who are exchanging.
A little peak in the Deep Web.
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| the Hidden Wiki |
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| Silk Road the most famous black market in the deep web usually sells drugs, chemicals, and services using bitcoins. |
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| Torbook a social media site on Deep Web |
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| A typical search engine in the Deep Web. It usually searches .onion domains instead of .com |
Issues and News about the Deep Web
Since the Deep Web is a place
for hackers, hitmans, drug dealers, pedophiles, forgerers NSA and other
non-government groups tracks them out and shutdowns their websites and find
them in real life to prevent more problems to occur.
On October 3, 2013 Trend
Micro posted an article about about cybercrimes that occurs on the Deep Web one
of these is SilkRoad, a black market on the Deep Web, was shut down and
arrested Ross Willian Ulbricht, owner and main admin of the marketplace, stands
accused of being „Dread Pirate Roberts“ and was arrester by the FBI at public library in San Francison on October 1,
2013.
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| Silk Road website on the Deep Web closed. |
On August 3,
2013 arrest of Eric Eoin Marques, alleged to
be the man behind Freedom Hosting,
the popular host and engine of the Deep Web. Many of its websites were infected with Javascript
exploits designed to identify previously hidden visitors. The FBI called
Marques the “largest facilitator of child porn on the planet” and claimed he
cleared $1.5 million in business in the last year.
So, what will happen to the
future of the Deep Web?
With
the capabilities of the officers and other non-government organization trying
to purge these cybercrime in the Deep Web making it clean.
The lines between search engine content and
the deep Web have begun to blur, as search services start to provide access to
part or all of once-restricted content. An increasing amount of deep Web
content is opening up to free search as publishers and libraries make
agreements with large search engines. In the future, deep Web content may be
defined less by opportunity for search than by access fees or other types of
authentication
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