The Dark Web: The unseen side of internet: Onion routing ???


Explaining The Surface Web, Deep Web and Dark Web.

 

The Internet has changed everything from the way we work, to the way we play, to the way, we live. It seems that there is a corner of the web for everyone despite what interests you've got despite what your beliefs are there's someone or something out there that thinks an equivalent way that you simply do.

The web has connected us in ways that were never before imagined. It's a place where everyone from connection from anywhere on earth can come together. There's so much stuff on the Internet most of which you don’t even know exists. If you want something, anything whether it be a service or product legal or illegal immoral or unethical the Internet has it you can choose to use this for good or bad much like the surface web that we all use every single day.


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The dark web is full of websites and forums and services that we can use but it's hidden under a layer of protection under the surface lies the nest of dark and hidden activities that are blocked off from the rest of the world. The dark web is the haven for illegal online activity and it goes deep much deeper than you might imagine. It’s a place where criminals predators spies, drug and even human traffickers lie and it's all hidden in plain sight. You could access it in minutes, if you wanted but should you?

There are three categories of internet or web:

1. Surface web

2. Deep web

3. Dark web or Dark net






Surface Web




First off we have the surface web this is everything that you use on a daily basis YouTube, Twitter and any social media at all. It's all a part of, what we call! the World Wide Web. It's relatively easy to find anything on the surface web as almost everything is indexed by search engines like Google. Every second over 1,000 photos are posted on Instagram, 8,000, tweets are posted on Twitter, 70,000 Google searches take place and nearly 100,000 YouTube videos are watched.

From this, the surface web seems massive and in a way it is in terms of pure traffic, almost everything you do and can be found here. You could look up anyone and find some kind of information about them and their life.

But what you can't find these are the things like their bank account or medical records. These things are hidden under password-protected websites, where only they can access them. This is where we venture into the Deep Web.



Deep Web


The Deep Web refers to the content on the internet that is not indexed by search engines. Basically, if you can't find it on Google, it's technically on the Deep Web. If you've ever logged into your email, you've browsed the Deep Web technically and I know it might be a little disappointing that the Deep Web is not as cool as it sounds. It's pretty much just as mundane as the surface web but with just a little more privacy. It realize that the Deep Web is that the most massive a part of the web.


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The Deep Web contains 96% of everything on the web. So, although you're online every single day and searched through new websites for the next 50 years, you will not be able to break into the net amount of information.

There's too much on the Internet, most of which you can't even reach to go through, but even further, the slowest sliders on the Internet contain a portion of the web compared to the deep web where things don't leave the website. It is encrypted. The existence of sliced he idler without IP addresses, making them virtually unrecognizable by users with encrypted software without an identity, to fully extend their identity to what we access the dark web But how it works, how can you hide it from the rest of the world. But there is something that pretty much everyone has.

If you are browsing Surface Web Choice, then the FBI man is not seeing you all right, but for the average person all you can do online and in many ways many Websites will be tracked. You are searching and looking and in return you advertise products or services that fit that description.

See a problem within everyone, but how far we can spoil it before it goes away is that the United States government thought 20 years ago that they are one of the system that could protect their communications.

While online, the internet wasn't designed for everyone and everything to remain anonymous in away anyone could intercept government transmissions. While they were being relayed and this was unacceptable.


Onion Routing

In the mid 1990s researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory began working on something called Onion Routing.
Onion Routing protects any data sent by essentially, wrapping it with multiple layers of encryption, where the innermost layer contains the original message.
Let's say you need to get a message from one place to another but in order to get that message to the end. Your massage have to go through three midpoints we’ll call them A, B and C. The message is then wrapped in three layers of encryption each layer only knows where the message previously came from and where to send it, next nothing else.
So the message or whatever data that was originally sent remains hidden. At each midpoint a layer of encryption is stripped and the new layers information tells it, where to send the message to next eventually. After traveling through all the points, the final layer is stripped and the message is visible.
The Soviet encryption allows our data to be sent to and from multiple locations, without it being interceptable in between no one else can see. Only those who are supposed can see the massage because of Onion Routing.


Dark Web

Dark Web is also called Dark net. It is a part of internet below private Deep Web that uses custom software and hidden networks. It’s also a encrypted network and can only be assessed with special browser or network like Tor.
Tor (Tor browser) can exist dark nets operated alongside networks like the internet or requires certain software to access to stands through the Onion Router. It's a software named after the technology that made it possible.
It seems just like another normal web browser but through Tor and other similar dark nets you can access web pages that are not available to the general public. The tools and requirements needed to access the dark web.
The dark web is enough to attract different types of users from all around the world, who links to pages don't look like youtube.com. They don't look familiar.
Whatever instead, they tend to look like random strings of characters and Nick Nam Kham not .org but .Onion. If you attempt to access these websites through any traditional web browser. It’s not goanna work but when using Tor it will work. This is your first step into the dark web. At least this is the hidden.
Wiki it contains a list of hundreds of different hidden services you can find on the dark web.
You can find fake US driver’s licenses and passports! You can find illegal weapons! You can find drugs!, it’s all here and we're barely scratching the surface just like on the surface web.

Marketplaces are extremely popular on the dark web. Here you can buy things that you may struggle to get elsewhere like rocket launchers now I don’t suggest you to doing any of this.
But if you want to buy things from sites on the dark web, how would you do it?
Using traditional forms of payment on the dark web does not make much sense such as credit cards can be easily tracked taking things anonymously and now look you're in jail. For these reasons virtual currency is king. This is why Bitcoin comes in.


Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a virtual currency which is almost anonymous in nature. It is useful compared to other cryptocurrencies on the site. It is important to run any anonymous market. Create a bitcoin wallet and exchange some of your cash for Bitcoin. You know? How your anonymous currency to do almost whatever you want with it.
One of the first things that pops into people's minds from the Dark Web is, the rapid volume of sites selling illegal drugs and similar items. Yes, they are real.



Silk RoadIn 2011, a dark net market known as Silk Road opened for business. It has since become almost synonymous with the dark web. Where you could buy any illegal drug. You have ever dreamed of sellers from all over the world sold things from weed to cocaine from DMT to LSD. If drugs aren't your thing, they also sold things like guns, Fake or cash and some books and clothes as well.
But after only 2 years in action, the site was seized by the FBI and take down in October 2013. Over the course of only 2 years 2011 to 2013, Silk Road generated over 9.5 million Bitcoin means (1,07,37,75,50,000.00 USD) or (7,88,23,59,45,12,50,000.00 Indian Rupee) in revenue. Now stretching this, a bit if you sold these Bitcoin at the peak of its price in 2017 which is roughly 20,000 dollars.
Silk Roads total revenue would amount to over 187 billion dollars in just 2 years. Silk Road’s another dark web Margaret’s actually played a pretty big hand in the rise of Bitcoin.


In 2011, Bitcoin was created with the Silk Road. Bitcoin was valued at less than a dollar. But, because the dark web pretty much required the decentralized cryptocurrency it was a perfect choice to be honest. Bitcoin wouldn't be where it is today without a bit of illegal activity. The creator of Silk Road Ross Ulbricht was found and arrested in 2013, which was ultimately the reason. The site was taken down. He was given two life sentences plus 40years in prison without a chance for parole.
All the illegal activities going on in the dark web, it's not as massive as many make it out to be many of larger services end up getting taken down whether it be by a local government or even the FBI. But where there's demand supply will inevitably shown, when one side is taken down, five new ones opened up to fill the void.



After Silk Road was taken down, Silk Road 2.0 opened up. It was taken down less than a year later but after that so crude Silk Road 3.0 opened up and this has continued going on for years.
Many of the creators and administrators of these sites were also found and convicted of similar crimes that Ross Ulbricht was guilty of. But instead of all of these people getting life in prison, their sentences were much shorter.
Their largest seller on Silk Road was only given 10 years in prison. The creator of Silk Road 2.0 was only given a little more than 5 years in prison for creating the same exact thing that got Ross Ulbricht two life sentences in jail.
Nearly everyone else who had any connection to any of these sites were given a max of a 10 year sentence. Even if you never visit the dark web.
If you didn't even know Dark Web exists it still affects you. It's not uncommon to see data leaks and breaches pretty often nowadays.
If your data was stored in a company's database. That was compromised there's a chance for sales, somewhere on the dark web where it could be purchased by anyone with access to it. If you don't know what to spend your money on yet.
Let me help! You out Social Security numbers can go for as little as a dollar. This is something given to every single US citizen in USA and can be used to steal someone else's identity. Botnets are also pretty cheap for as little as a few dollars an hour.

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You can perform a distributed denial of service or DDoSattack to essentially take almost any website or service temporarily offline. These botnets can severely affect anyone or any business that is targeted.
If you have ever played video games online before someone's probably done this to you. You can also buy someone's medical records for as low as $50. There's also stolen credit cards for sale as well just buy one rack up the bill and then never pay it. A lot of this data isn’t even for sale, it's just out there. There are websites leaking the information of politicians celebrities and even normal people like you and I and there's not much you can really do about it.
But even worse than this, there are some even darker things that can be carried out on the dark web.
There are multiple hitmen services on Dark web claiming to be able to kill almost anyone in the world you want for as little as $5,000. Many of these have been revealed to be scams but not all of them. But even though, these may be scams. The fact that there are people out there who trust random people on the Internet to carry out real murders is concerning to say the least.
There’s also services selling real human organs. How they acquire these? We’ll never know.
Child pornography is unfortunately a larger part of Dark Web, such as Lolita city and playpen have been taken down with the help of FBI. But due to dark web peaks sites like these had over 200,000users.
Similar forms exist that discussed ways of kidnapping children from different parts of the world. Where people would have discussions about how to hide them, what kind of kids they owned and even darker things that they would do to them, when no one else is around.
This is only a small look into this deep and dark corner of the internet. The lack of rules, allows anything to exist here.
The deeper you go, the scarier things you will find.
But despite all these things, about half of all funding for Tor on the Dark Web still comes from the United States Government which is really surprising.
When you consider the reputation that the dark web has a lot of people that have been arrested and thrown in prison for illegal activities on the dark web, nobody even seem physically threatening whatsoever.
But if you can run a drug empire online or hire hit men for a couple Bitcoin without ever having to put yourself in danger. You might not have to be these are people you could see walking down the street. These are people that are inline behind you at the grocery store. They seem just like normal people and you might not even know what they are seeing.



The Dark Web is depicted as a vast criminal underground where millions of the worst people in society live and while it is partially true that it is not entirely claimed that the Dark Web contains almost all of these hidden services are only two to ten thousand.
Only over half of them are considered illegal content. But then again these numbers cannot be taken as fact because well hidden services are by design meant to be hidden.
Out of these few thousand websites only less than six percent of people who use Tor actually use these hidden services. That is less than 120,000 thousand people out of the billions of people who use the Internet. Out of them, a hundred thousand people used the dark web. This is just a drop of water in the ocean.
Internet content that has deemed to be obscene by a higher power typically governments. There's no surprise that not everyone in the world is as genuine as they may see. But that is the gamble you take that is, the price you pay for this.

Other parts exist in the rest of the world to help many countries around the world. The Dark Web provides a place where no censorship exists, providing truth to many people who would have never seen otherwise. It gives people a place to speak truly about and report on things that are important, without fear of censorship or even physical threats.
Many of the largest news networks operate dark web services to allow people to come forward with information without the fear of being caught or publicly ridiculed.
But to be honest everyone puts their entire lives on the internet at this point 10 or 15 years ago this would have been absurd and quite frankly stupid. But now it seems pretty normal in a way we are slowly giving up Internet privacy.
The Dark Web protects the way that it gives people a way to withdraw their privacy and anonymity whether they use it in a positive or negative way.
Drugs sold on the dark web, while mostly illegal, may have some positive use. If you are in a place where they are not sold, you can buy them from the dark web. While the FBI governments and much of the public beliefs, Silk Road had vastly negative effects on the world. Ross Ulbricht thought otherwise he believed he was doing the world, a service rather than the violence that can result from the trading and dealing of illegal drugs.
The Silk Road provided a more secure experience, which provided opportunity to the people and protected people as opposed to putting them at risk. But despite this, despite his apparently peaceful and non-harming nature, he was the one who actually used these Hitman services in attempts to kill six different people on the dark web, all depending on whether how do you see it and how open you are to interpretations.
The dark web doesn't have to be a terrible place. It is only scary. If you go looking for things that you don't want to see. You can’t necessarily get rid of them, but you can't avoid them.
There are somethings that the average person just shouldn’t see. If you don't want to fall victim to this. I say, stay away from the dark web, even if you believe it is as bad as it was made. If this is the first time you are hearing about it. You probably don't know what you're doing and once you're in you, you're not giving up.



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