While Tor's ability to offer anonymously hosted websites is not illegal, such veiled networks have allowed criminal organisations to flourish. Those accessing the dark net can find Illegal drugs, counterfeit goods, websites purportedly offering hitmen for hire, the open trade of hacking tools and what one cybercrime expert described as "horrific child abuse and live streaming of rape." Other networks include Freenet and I2P ("Invisible Internet Project").Īnyone entering the "dark net" of anonymous websites through an anonymization network such as Tor could encounter openly a sinister marketplace of illegal activity. The most famous of these networks is Tor, which stands for "The Onion Router." Tor claims to obfuscate the devices and locations of users by routing their requests through different servers across the world multiple times (hence the onion layer analogy). Much of this un-indexed content in the "deep web" is off-limits and can only be accessed via specific networks that claim to provide untraceable access to certain web content - and anonymity for the websites within those networks. The "dark net" – which is also called the "dark web" - is found within the "deep web", a vast online space of databases and websites that are not indexed by traditional search engines like Google or Yahoo whose content makes up what the tech industry calls the "surface web."Įxperts often use an iceberg analogy: While the "surface web" that most of us use contains around a billion individual documents is the tip of the iceberg, the "deep web" is the immense submerged part that we cannot see – approximately 550 billion documents and web pages.
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