The Chest of Mysteries #6: Deep Web vs Dark Web!
Welcome to another Chest of Mysteries! Today the subject will be Deep Web vs Dark Web.
Den of criminals? Low layers? A place full of viruses? These and other these and other descriptions have made Deep Web an extremely complex and popular subject among several people around the world. But one thing is certain: Google doesn't know everything.
Firstly, for there to be no future doubts as to terms, the internet is divided into three parts: Surface, Deep, and Dark. It may be that there are more, but to understand the concept, these three are enough.
Surface Web
Everyone has heard the iceberg metaphor: a small part can be seen by everyone, while more than half is hidden underwater. With the internet, it's pretty much the same thing.
The Surface Web is all the part of the internet indexed in certain search channels, like Google for example. They can find the domain, and the entire public can have free access to the information posted there - unless you need a login or password, of course.
Most scholars on the subject claim that the Surface Web accounts for only 4% of all information on the internet.
Deep web
From now on, we begin to address what lies beneath what we can see. Many people find that in Deep Web we only find disturbing and criminal information, being a den of criminals on the internet. Exist? Yes. But it's not quite like that.
Unlike the Surface Web, Deep is made up of non-indexed sites, so it's not possible to find them on search engines such as Google. What does that mean? That the information present, there can only be accessed if you really want it.
It is possible to say that Deep Web has a part that we can access but that we just do not access because we don't want to. But there are even deeper parts.
Those who access this part of the Deep Web, in most cases, use encrypted networks that hide their identities, such as Tor and FreeNet. These software work like the most famous browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc) , but with the difference that IP information and user data are hidden by them.
It is very important to mention that some sites registered here use servers a little different from what we are accustomed to seeing. To begin with, ".tor" domains are completely independent of ICANN - which is the body responsible for pointing out to the whole world which DNS is each top domain.
Most people who access Deep Web don't seek to get involved in illegal situations, just don't want to be found. There, there are all sorts of good, very good, and bad, bad information. That is why any user should know what he does.
Dark Web
Now, we come to the part responsible for most of the myths about Deep Web. Dark Web is that area where we can find the information and situations that the good citizen prefers not to get involved with.
In the dark zone of the internet, encryption is extremely complex, allowing only advanced users - or curious "lucky ones" - to get to it.
According to some surveys, the largest of the hidden networks to reach Dark Webis Tor.
Hidden Networks
Tor
Tor - The Onion Router, or Onion Router, is free software that creates a chain of open networks that allow the user to browse - encrypted - on the internet. The origin of the program is a project funded by the United States, which intended to use it to convey confidential information.
Tor's public network is characterized by being ".onion", other than Surface, which uses ".com" most of the time. It works as follows: when the user enters a domain - of any kind - the request goes through multiple servers, creating a large web, which makes tracking almost impossible.
i2p and FreeNet
In the case of i2p, the protocol used to encrypt user information is in User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and NTCP (NEESgrid Teleoperation Control Protocol) , which is different from the most famous ones, which uses TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP .
The i2p network is faster than Tor and considered by many to be safer.
FreeNet is very different from the others since it doesn't use any proxy, but rather a network of information sharing, which causes the data to be encrypted automatically. This network is famous for being considered "clean" because it allows the user to release data safely.
After all, what's the difference?
Finally, we come to the conclusion of the great question. The difference between Dark and Deep Web is that one is part of the other. Deep Web is composed with every non-indexed domain - which isn't found in search engines. Dark Web is a small part of Deep Web , in which crimes and sharing situations and illegal information such as drug marketing, negotiations with hackers and murderers, child pornography and other crimes can occur.
Then we enter into another controversy: how is the payment of these things accomplished? The answer is complicated, but it revolves around the Bitcoins - and, currently, other hard-to-trace coins.
I remind you that what is written here is just to know the difference. I don't intend with this article to encourage anyone to do anything. But one thing is common sense: the internet is gigantic and we will hardly know it completely.
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Thats some deep dark stuff here man! Sorry, Im not very good at the interweb things so Ill throw some humor in! ;)