The document discusses the darknet, which is a part of the internet that allows for anonymous use and hides users from normal search engines. It describes how the darknet can be used for both legal and illegal purposes, with sites like Silk Road selling drugs, weapons, and other illegal goods anonymously. The document predicts that in the next two years, authorities will work to shut down more illegal darknet websites, while users will try to open new anonymous markets. It also anticipates that legal e-commerce will continue to grow as more businesses and consumers feel comfortable conducting transactions online.

1. Cuartero, John Brian D.
DARKNET: THE OTHER SIDE

2.  A place in the internet where people can
be anonymous and hidden from the usual
search engines.

3. The Internet
 The Visible
 This is what most people visit and use.
 Example of these websites are:
 Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.
 The Invisible
 Information that are not for public consumption
 Websites that hide from authority (Illegal Markets)

4. The Internet Iceberg
 The invisible web
does not
necessarily mean
that it is
something bad.
 There are just
cases that it is
used for a purpose
that is not ethical
or moral

5. The Bad Side of the Darknet
 There are sites
like Silk Road that
sell drugs,
weaponry and
other things that
are not available
normally since
they are
dangerous for the
society.

6. Effects on e-commerce
 There might be a small effect on e-commerce
knowing that legal businesses won’t need to
go in the deep web to sell.
 The only businesses that go underground are
those who need to hide something or illegal.

7. What will happen in the next
2 years?
 The founder of Silk Road was just recently
caught. There might be an increase in
aggressiveness shutting down these hidden
illegal websites.
 Simultaneously, other people who actively
use the deep web for illegal activities will try
to open up new markets and at the same time

8. The e-commerce boom
 Business transactions online will become more
normal and people will become less concerned in
putting up their information in the internet
because the generation who consumes products
have more knowledge regarding technology and
basically the norm.
 Traditional businesses will have to add an online
facility to cope up with the competitors that
utilize the opportunities that is the web
availability or presence of a product.