Deep Web

1. Into the Deep
What is the Deep Web?
By Mikee Masamayor

2. Description
• Done between peers anonymously
• Not monitored or under surveillance by
governing bodies
• “Underground” ; for non-commercial sites on
the Internet
• May contain illegal activities

3. History of Darknet/Deep Web
• 1970s
• 3 ideas for Darknet
• Networks cannot
track or uncover
– Microsoft Researchers user’s activities
• “friend to friend”
(F2F)
• Emergence of nondarknet sharing files
(e.g. BitTorrent)

4. Access to Darknet
• Consumers may be anyone
• Special software/browser for Dark Net not to
be indexed by search engines
• Identity and activities are not tracked
• Drugs, weapons, etc. are sold
• (e.g. Silk Road, Freenet, etc.)

5. IMPLICATIONS
• Legal online C2C businesses
– Similar to F2F networks (cataloguing, etc.)
– Implement more laws
• Increasing number of participants in illegal
business transactions

6. IMPLICATIONS
• E-Commerce is affected due to
– Volume of transactions in illegal market
– Laws to lessen illegal transactions online
– Consumer’s lack of knowledge of the unknown
“Deep Web”

7. TRENDS
• Lesser illegal transactions online
• Bitcoins, online currency, may be banded from
certain countries
• Affect to exchange rates and currencies

8. TRENDS
• “Underground” activities may lessen but
popularity and knowledge regarding Deep
Web grow
• Darknet operators and suppliers are arrested
and questioned