Maybe you did not know, but there are two Internet. The classic
Internet, the one you know and that you use everyday, on which you can
read this article. It is very easily accessible and is indexed by the
search engines. Next comes the deep web or the dark. Do you have
question what is the dark web? Here’s the answer, web representing
approximately 96% of the entire web on which there is a large number of
un-referenced pages for various reasons: dynamic URLs generated on the
fly, sites requiring authentication (banks, online organizations), data
not included by the search engines.
And then there is a small subset of the deep web that can not be accessed without specific software, it is the dark web.
What is dark web or deep web actually?
The dark web exists on darknets , superimposed networks using
specific protocols integrating anonymization functions and constituted
by people who connect among themselves in particular for exchanges of
files. These networks are superimposed on the Internet, but require
specific software to access them. Thus, they are not accessible or even
visible to uninitiated people.
For example, among the widely used software, Tor software hides a darknet. Tor can
be used to anonymize its activity on the Internet when you surf the
visible web, but it can also be used to access special sites ending in
.onion that you would not be able to access with a standard
browser. These sites use Tor to camouflage themselves on the web and
only Tor users can access it, which makes them very little visible!
Tor’s hidden websites are the best-known darknet on the web, but
there are of course other darkenets used for various purposes such as
sharing secret files, pirated software or media files.
What are you going to find on the dark web?
On darknets hide websites that do not want to be accessible on the
normal web where they could be found easily. These websites constitute
what is called the dark web.
The dark web provides anonymity both to the websites that constitute
it and to the visitors of these websites. Political dissidents in
countries where authoritarian regimes leave very little room for
opponents are likely to use the dark web to communicate and organize (we
find a little spirit of “Radio London” and resistance during the 2nd
World War II with its parallel communication networks).
Alert launchers can reveal secrets about the dark web using sites
like the one from the American newspaper The New Yorker accessible by
Tor to guarantee a higher level of anonymity. Even Facebook can be
accessed from Tor to ensure the security of users logging into countries
where Facebook is censored or banned .
But beyond these positive uses and aiming to fight for freedom, the
anonymity of the dark web allows the existence of a multitude of other
sites that could not have been born on the normal web, for good reasons.
Indeed, many sites offer drugs, weapons, false documents or even stolen credit cards and even other services like credit card hacking and
confidential information hacking. You will also find sites of online
games or directories of criminals with classifieds of people proposing
for an assassination. All these services are generally paid in Bitcoin,
this virtual currency also guaranteeing a certain anonymity .
Moreover, the site of the dark web that has made the most talk about
him in recent years is Silk Road, a huge black market place dedicated to
the sale of drugs and on which payments were made in Bitcoin and buyers
received their orders by mail as on any other e-retailer. Silk Road was
brought to and end in November 2014 by the FBI.
It is therefore very important to be aware that everything on the dark
web is not necessarily reliable and legitimate (besides being
illegal!). Indeed, even if this is not quantifiable because of the
absence of statistics in this parallel world, much of what is there may
well be scams to make money on the back of the “customers”. Difficult
indeed for a client to go complaining to the police saying that the user
Sniper77 did not perform his assassination service when he was well
paid! One can also imagine that on these sites there are traps set by
the police to take on the fact of people seeking illegal products or
services.
In short, make sure not to use dark web
Now you know what is dark web, so in the end, there really are very
few legitimate reasons that could lead you on the dark web. As we saw
above, if you are a wake-up caller or if you live in a country where all
freedoms are not guaranteed, dark web can be a valuable tool … for the
rest, avoid all just to get there.
Note: Use Virtual Machine and scan on VirusTotal before downloading any program on Host Machine for your privacy.
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