7. Key Points
You need
specialist tools
Not supported
by standard
search engines
Mainly use
“onion” pages
Provides a
form of
anonymity
Common users
have no need
for it
8. Deep Web / Dark Web
Can be interchangeable
Deep web is content not indexed by
search engines
Dark web is the illicit business associated
with the Deep Web
The easiest way to view the dark web and our browsing activities as a whole is to consider an iceberg.
Icebergs have a very small amount viewable above water, below water they are a lot larger.
The tip of the iceberg is the common web
Below this is the deep / dark web, its not publically accessible in an out of the box system. Its very large, infact Recent evaluations say that the Deep Web could be 500 times bigger than the 555 million websites on the visible web. Read more at http://junkee.com/the-best-unsolved-mysteries-on-the-internet/35874/3#Q0QHpmpELm8PZYoy.99
Below this is the Marianas web, this is very secretive and cannot be accessed / or / the information isn’t common knowledge
Here is one common view of the internet;
Level 1: Facebook, YouTube, Google. This is where we all play freely in the sunlight.
Level 2: Academic databases, personal information, financial records. To access this level, you need usernames and passwords.
Level 3: Illicit drugs, child porn, stolen credit card numbers, human trafficking, weapons, exotic animals. To reach this level you need to use Tor, a browser that operates by bouncing communications off servers around the world to make it difficult to detect the user’s IP address.
Although a lot of the activity that Tor is used for is evil, it is also used as a safe-haven for victims of cyber stalking, political dissidents, and can help just about anyone regain digital independence. In fact, when Twitter was momentarily banned in Turkey in the lead up to this year’s election, Tor saw a massive spike in activity in the region.
Level 4: Also known as the Marianas Web — named after the deepest ocean trench on Earth — this level is speculative; no one knows whether it actually exists. Said to contain a repository of all of humanity’s best-kept secrets, including the location of Atlantis, it is more or less the Internet’s version of the Vatican secret archives.
Some intrepid Internet mavericks even claim that the Marianas Web is the location of a super intelligent form of female AI that has become sentient, and overlooks the Internet like some unfathomable digital mother nature. You can only access this level using Polymeric Falcighol Derivation, which requires quantum computers to work. Quantum computers do not exist.
Read more at http://junkee.com/the-best-unsolved-mysteries-on-the-internet/35874/3#Q0QHpmpELm8PZYoy.99
Discuss with class what can be found here? STD internet stuff
Darker things here like CP, Abuse, Red Rooms, Hitmen, Drugs
No one knows what is really down here or if it is even real
You need specialist tools
Not supported by standard search engines
Mainly use “onion” pages
Provides a form of anonymity
Common users have no need for it
Can be interchangeable
Deep web is content not indexed by search engines
Search engines use crawler bots to find websites on the internet.
Deep web pages are not indexable and cannot be found in the same way
Dark web is the illicit business associated with the Deep Web
It can be done in many ways but the easiest method is using Tor.
Tor stands for The Onion Router
It uses a modified version of FireFox. Also note the error message here.
Alternative DNS systems
The news has been replete with examples of the United States Government seizing domain names, making their owners unable to do business online. To combat this apparent threat to online freedom, domain naming systems (DNS) other than the ubiquitous Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) have been developed.
Host machines that use peer-to-peer DNS systems such as the Dot-P2P project make it possible to create Internet hosts over which governments have no control, meaning that the survivability of web sites is dramatically increased.
Crime and Terror links
Because the Dark Web is not connected to the Internet via traditional means, hosts are harder to find and connect to site operators. This makes it an appealing haven to purveyors of child pornography and other illegal content. Similarly, terror groups have been discovered to haunt the Dark Web as part of their effort to recruit and radicalize new members.
Freedom Seekers
Although the Dark Web has some nebulous uses, many of them are innocuous. For example people who want to communicate and associate online without fear of being shut down by a government agency.
Because the Dark Net consists of inaccessible hosts, the concept of creating a Dark Net search engine is problematic at best. Although the ability to search alternative DNS formats exists, there is no clear way to make sure to find all hosts that use a particular system.
Further complicating any effort to create a Dark Net search engine is the need to cobble together a variety of alternative DNS configurations as well as hosts that do not use any DNS at all.
Still, some search functions are available on different Dark Net services. For example, the alternative DNS,Freenet, has some limited search capabilities
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Bitcoin – how do we trust them? What if the product is never delivered?
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Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
Discuss students opinions / feelings on an ethical level
