Everything you need to know about the DARK WEB.
What is the deep/dark web and how do you access it?
The Dark Web is a term that refers specifically to a collection of websites that exist on an encrypted network and cannot be found by using traditional search engines or visited by using traditional browsers.
Almost all sites on the so-called Dark Web hide their identity using the Tor encryption tool. You may know Tor for its ability to hide your identity and activity. You can use Tor to spoof your location so it appears you're in a different country to where you're really located. When a website is run through Tor it has much the same effect.
The part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable.
Indeed, it multiplies the effect. To visit a site on the Dark Web that is using Tor encryption, the web user needs to be using Tor. Just as the end user's IP address is bounced through several layers of encryption to appear to be at another IP address on the Tor network, so is that of the website. So there are several layers of magnitude more secrecy than the already secret act of using Tor to visit a website on the open internet - for both parties
Thus, sites on the Dark Web can be visited by any web user, but it is very difficult to work out who is behind the sites. And it can be dangerous if you slip up and your identity is discovered.
Not all Dark Web sites use Tor. Some use similar services such as I2P, such as the Silk Road Reloaded. But the principle remains the same. The visitor has to use the same encryption tool as the site and - crucially - know where to find the site, in order to type in the URL and visit.
Infamous examples of Dark Web sites include the Silk Road and its offspring. The Silk Road was (and maybe still is) a website for the buying and selling of recreational drugs. But there are legitimate uses for the Dark Web. People operating within closed, totalitarian societies can use the Dark Web to communicate with the outside world. And given recent revelations about US- and UK government snooping on web use, you may feel it is sensible to take your communication on to the Dark Web.
The Deep or Dark Web is simply a deeper level of the internet which is out of reach of the clearnet, or the internet indexed by search engines. Try to visualize an iceberg - although some of it is visible from above the surface of the water, most of it lies below the surface of the water. This is exactly the same with the Internet. Think of the Deep Web as the submerged section, which is out of reach of the Clearnet, which offers ordinary users services such as Google, Yahoo! etc. as well as similar search engines, which keep an index of websites, as well as optimize your searches.
To access the Deep or Dark Web, you will need a Tor browser. Essentially, a Tor browser is a way of getting to .onion websites on the Deep or Dark web. One’s primary concern when browsing on the Deep or Dark Web is anonymity, and that is why Tor is your best bet.
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