1.
The Deep & Dark
Web
Jyotsna Gorle
ThoughtWorks Inc.

2.
What is the Deep Web
The Surface Web
The Deep Web

3.
What is the DARK Web
• The covert and illegal
activities make the major part
of it.
It's not the same

4.
How it Works ?
• Anonymous Browser
• Secret Search Engines
• Hidden Wikis
• Hidden Chatrooms

5.
Deep Web Harvest

6.
Search Engines
●
Crawling
●
Indexing
●
Page ranking
●
Meta Tags
– <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
●
Robot.txt

7.
Where do they come
formsource repository: a Library of 85,000 (and growing) Deep
Web sources

8.
Cyber Anonymity
The New Yorker’s Strongbox,
which allows whistleblowers
to securely and anonymously
communicate with the
magazine - is a Tor Hidden
Service.

9.
Anonymous Browser -
TOR
• TOR - The Onion Router
• runs through the
computer servers of
thousands of volunteers
(over 4,500 at time of
publishing) spread
throughout the world.

10.
Anonymous Browser -
TOR
• Your data is bundled into
an encrypted packet
• Tor strips away part of the
packet's header, which is
a part of the addressing
information - used to
learn things about the
sender e.g. operating
system from which the
message was sent.
www.somethingsecret.onion

11.
The Good Stuff
●
Light in the Darkness
●
The Right Tools for the
Job
●
Anonymity

12.
The Hidden Wiki Leaks

13.
Story behind the Rise of Wiki Leaks
4 October 2006
Wikileaks.org
● Denial of Service attack
● Removed from the DNS
Julian Asange

14.
Bradley Manning
● Has been charged against
– violating Espionage ACT,
stealing government
property.
● Penalized – 35 years in jail

15.
Edward Snowden
● Secret court orders allow NSA to
sweep up Americans' phone records
● PRISM
● Britain's NSA – Taps into Fiber Optic
cables around the world
● NSA spies on world leaders and
foreign countries

16.
The Silk Road Case
●
Silk Road was the internet's wild west
: 2011 -2013
●
$1.2bn in sales in its existence
●
nearly one million anonymous
customers
Ross Ulbricht

17.
How that worked out
- BITCOINS
●
Bitcoin is a form of digital
currency, created and held
electronically.
●
No one controls it.
●
Bitcoins aren't printed, like dollars
or euros.
●
produced by people, and
increasingly businesses,
running computers all around
the world, using software that
solves mathematical problems.

18.
Government
Databases
• Used by journalists
• A few examples of legal research
websites that you’ll find in the deep
web include:
• Law school court opinion search
engines
• Law library case databases
• Non-profit legal organization
search tools for legal cases
Reem Al Assil
Syrian Human Rights

19.
Background Check
Any in-depth background check that you conduct online is likely going to cost a
modest fee.
SSN + Adhar

20.
Why should you care about the Deep
Web?
Dark nets grant everyone the power to speak freely
without fear of censorship or persecution.

21.
Use it wisely
“Freedom is a state of being capable of making
decisions without external control.”
QUESTIONS ??