Explain about Deep web and Dark Web.
How both are different from each other ?
How can be access them?
Give URL of some deep web and dark web websites !
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Definition: The content that you cannot find using the search engine.
It is also known as the invisible web.
It cannot be indexed by search engines.
It contains everything which is not publically accessible.
The result of the search box on any website is the perfect example of the deep web.
It is Legal + Illegal.
It is over 90% of all the internet.
Ex: Bank Accounts, Dropbox, etc.
About Dark Web:
Definition: It is the small part of the deep web where sites are purposely hidden.
It is inaccessible by standard browsers.
The content inside the dark web is found using TOR Browsers.
Ex: Illegal websites like Silk Road, Torture sites, Rape Sites, Malware sites.
About Surface Web:
The websites, Web pages etc.. that you find using web search engine portray that you are exploring just the surface of the web.
They are Publically Accessible.
Ex: Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc.
Hope this helps!
There's a hidden part of the internet that is much larger than the parts of the web you use every day.
When you're checking your email, shopping online, or Facebooking, you are using what is referred to as the "Surface Web" or "Visible Web."
The Visible Web consists of websites that are indexed by normal search engines, like Google or Yahoo. According to one estimate, there are at least 4 billion indexed web pages.
While this seems huge, a much larger part of the web lurks below the Surface Web and isn't indexed.
This part of the web is called the "Deep Web."
The Deep Web
Here's the easiest way to think about the Deep Web: It's all the data behind firewalls. Think user databases, business intranets, web archives, password-protected websites, etc.
By some estimates, this part of the internet is estimated to be 400 to 500 times as large as the Surface Web.
Sometimes you will hear the term Deep Web used interchangeably with "Dark Web," but they aren't really the same thing.
The Dark Web
The Dark Web actually refers to a set of accessible, albeit anonymously hosted, websites that exist within the Deep Web.
Because these websites are not indexed by normal search engines, you can access them only with special software that disguises your IP address.
The most common software used to access the Dark Web is The Onion Browser, referred to as TOR.
The Dark Web is much smaller than the Deep Web, and it's made up of numerous types of sites. But it's perhaps most popular for its anonymous marketplaces that often sell illegal products like drugs or weapons.
Darknet markets
Silk Road was really the first successful anonymous marketplace that thrived on the Dark Web.
Founded in 2011, Silk Road adopted an Amazon-like platform for vendors to buy and sell goods with the use of bitcoin, an untraceable digital currency. The Silk Road's consumer-friendly approach and its guaranteed anonymity helped it quickly become the go-to website for contraband.
By the time it was shut down in 2013, the marketplace had accumulated 1,400 vendors and 957,079 registered users, and it had brokered more than 1.2 million transactions worth $214 million, according to the FBI.
Since Silk Road's demise, numerous illicit marketplaces like Agora and AlphaBay have taken its place, and business is actually growing.
In fact, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the anonymous-marketplace ecosystem brings in more than $500,000 a day!!
Hope this helps!
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