Deep Web

Ever been to the darkest parts of the world? A place full of illegitimate activies and stuff. The worst of the worst. The most horrible things you can imagine of. Every thing has got a dark part, so does the internet.

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Now, not many of you might have come across the terms Deep Web or Dark Net. Though people tend to use them in the same context, they are not exactly the same thing and shoud be used synonymously-distinctly.

The everyday websites that we access through our search engines is known as the surface web or clearnet. It is believed that the surface web just forms 4% of the world wide web and the rest is the deep web.

Intrigued by hearing all of this? Believe me something called deep web does exist, hidden from us somewhere unreachable via our normal search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.

The Deep Web forms the world wide web that cannot be accessed by our tradition search engines. While the Dark Net or Dark Web form a part of the Deep Web, which can be accessed via certain software, configurations and authorisation but not indexed by search engines.

Dark Net can be accessed in two ways, either on small scale, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer configuration or via certain network layers that use the internet and are on large scale, freenet, I2P, tor, etc.

Tor(Abbrevation of The Onion Router) is the most commonly used application browser to access the Dark Net. What Tor does is it allows you to access the dark net, hides your IP, thus giving you anonymity to a certain extent. Now you might come across a question HOW?

Consider you are on surface web, you google a term, your Computer A sends a request to gain certain information to server B ( both are familiar which each others’ IP address) and the server B responds, giving the required information to Computer A. This is a two way communication network with no anonymity.

Now suppose you are accessing the deep web via Tor. You send a similar request via Computer A to a server B, what the Tor network does is it messes stuff up, i.e from Computer A it will send the request to server C, then to server D, server M…. and finally to server B, so the only thing that server B knows is the last server that requested the information, so it becomes really difficult or to an extent impossible to trace back to Computer A.

Basically deep web has a number of layers or levels. Deep web is everything that cannot be found on search engines or places that do not have links, stay in isolation and our only bridge to those places is applications like Tor. What google searches for links, on the topic we asked for, makes a list of links and gives us the result. Ever shopped anything on the internet? Entered the credit card number? That’s the deep web.

Now there’s a lots of good and bad stuff on the deep web from all illegal activities to hidden wiki databases, whistleblowers, activists, federal government information, which is ofcourse in the deepest layer, classified and impossible for you or me to reach. When I say illegal activities, they mean everything- drugs, guns, gambling, hacking, child pornography, fraud, hitmen, rape-torture videos and all the horrible stuff that you’d want to stay away from. Ofcourse Tor also gives an alternative to stay anonymous or a GHOST on the internet. So a number of people prefer it to write blogs or share books and movies they cannot share or write about in the mainstream world due to a number of reasons.

Edward Snowden used the Deep Web for his whistleblowing purpose.

Category Percentage:

Gambling 0.4

Guns 1.4

Chat 2.2

New(Not indexed) 2.2

Abuse 2.2

Books 2.5

Directory 2.5

Blog 2.75

Porn 2.75

Hosting 3.5

Hacking 4.25

Serach 4.25

Anonymity 4.5

Forum 4.75

Counterfeit 5.2

Whistleblower 5.2

Wiki 5.2

Mail 5.7

Bitcoin 6.2

Fraud 9

Market 9

Drugs 15.4

Now I am providing the homepage link of tor. But please note that the purpose of this article is not for encouraging the tor or deep web it is just to get knowledge of the stuff you didnt actually knew. Techsomebite is not responsible if you get caught into any illegal stuff in the Deep Web or any other illegal things.

Tor Homepage:

Click here

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