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Deep Web vs. Dark Web: What is Each and How Do They Work
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Why Is It Bad for Your Data to Get There & What Can You Do to Protect Yourself from Dark Web Ripples

You may have heard these concepts being thrown around, but you don’t really know what they are, except that they sound ominous. You may suspect that it’s a place (or places) where malicious hackers roam. You may have also heard of the so-called ‘intellectual dark web’, but that just makes matters even more confusing.

So, what is the deal with these dark web and deep web concepts?

What can you do on them?

How can they be accessed?

Is it dangerous?

Let me clear the air with this brief introduction to the dark web for laymen. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the main concepts

What Is the Deep Web?

First of all, the deep web and the dark web are not one and the same thing, though they can overlap significantly.

The deep web refers to all the pages which are not indexed, which means that most search engines won’t return them to you after a search. Their crawlers don’t ‘see’ these pages, making them de facto invisible to these search engines.

This means that in order to access one of these pages, you need to either know their exact address (link) or to click on another link once you get in the deep side of the web.

Also, the deep web can include significant parts of the legitimate, mainstream web (like Netflix or Amazon pages), simply because they are personalized for users and not all URLs are meant to be indexed.

What Is the Dark Web?

The dark web is a layer even deeper: technically also part of the deep web (which makes it inaccessible unless you know exactly where to go), but focused on illegal activities and services. It can be pretty gruesome. Some people call it the place where humanity’s darkest side surfaces.

So what exactly is on the dark web?

On the dark web, you can expect to find any and all of the following (sensitivity trigger, better scroll down if you don’t want to be appalled):

* Marketplace for various drugs, from mild recreational and borderline legal ones (like weed) to the hard stuff;
* Marketplace for various fire weapons and ammunitions, obviously unregistered;
* Software needed for deeper browsing (like Onion Browser) and listing directories (lists of other deep web / dark web websites and their links, so you can access them);
* A few rare books, scanned (yay for scholars everywhere, right?);
* Lots of blueprints for 3D printing stuff, from legal things to illegal things;
* Some building plans boasting to offer undetected access (via secret tunnels) to important buildings;
* Wikileaks documents;
* A so-called Hidden wiki portal, claiming to be ‘The Original Wikipedia’ plus its mirrors;
* Files claiming to contain nude photos of various celebrities (all behind a Bitcoin wall and probably fake, of course);
* Websites with videos depicting abuse towards children, animals, war prisoners etc.
* Child pornography content;
* Racist content and content promoting violence against various minorities (like Ku Klux Klan propaganda or videos of actual hate crime being perpetrated);
* Recipes on how to cook human meat and video footage;
* Marketplace for hiring hitmen (though for the most part these services are reported to be yet more Bitcoin scams – still, some of them are for real);
* Rumors of so-called ‘red rooms’, live video footage of torture and murder – they require a Bitcoin fee to enter but they are also scams, just an urban legend.

As you can notice if you read the list, many of the things for sale on the dark web are shams, designed to get your bitcoins without making good on the promise. Of course, if someone is actually looking to buy access to such things, they don’t earn a lot of sympathy as victims of the scam. However, the fact that in many cases the services advertised are just scams doesn’t make the dark web less dangerous or disgusting.
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