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BTW.. "Silk Road" was just taken down by American government officials. I suspect they were cutting into their profits.
posted by
BigV
on August 20, 2015 at 8:41 AM
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Dark Web
This was taken from a tech site that I frequent. I am working on a story that the characters use the dark web so I've done some recent homework. I also watched a full length documentary on Netflix I believe about the Dark Web and the info given there conicided with what is below.
The deep Web and the dark Web are two different things. The meanings have evolved, but basically the deep Web is anything theoretically accessible via the Internet whose existence can’t be detected by search engines. In the old days, that meant anything in a database. Nowadays Google spiders crawling the Web for searchable content dig pretty deep, including into databases, but for one reason or another there are limits to how far they can go.
Beyond this frontier lies the deep Web. Many believe it accounts for the vast majority of what’s out there. Google for example knows of more than a trillion Web addresses but has only indexed about 40 billion of them. As of 2011 Google researchers estimated there were more than a billion data repositories on the internet, ranging from simple HTML tables to giant corporate servers like Amazon.com. Early speculation was that 400 to 550 times the amount of “surface data” existed in the deep Web, and nowadays that may be an underestimate.
Most of what we’re talking about, Una continued, is corporate data archives and whatnot and is excruciatingly boring. But not all. There are also some fascinating if decidedly unsavory bits. That’s the dark Web.
The dark Web is a collection of sites and technologies that don’t just hide data but conceal attempts to access it. For example, if I were operating a website for assassins, I’d want not merely to keep my roster of contract killers safe from accidental discovery, I’d also want it to be possible for potential clients to reach me and my site without their efforts being detectable. That’s what the dark Web lets them do.
Accessing the dark Web requires special software, special passwords, or both. The worst-kept secret of the dark Web is Tor, originally an acronym for “The Onion Router.” Building on research originally carried out by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the Tor Project became a community effort to design a way for anyone to communicate online without their location or identity being traceable. Most agree the Tor Project was originally created to ensure free expression without fear of government snooping and interference. The reality is when you get a bunch of people together (not all of them notably mature) and give them complete anonymity and freedom from accountability, often it’s the worst impulses that dominate, not the best.
Thus on the dark Web you find the doings of the anarchist hacktivists of Anonymous and the folks behind Wikileaks; Islamic jihadist message boards; stolen credit card numbers, for sale singly and by the thousands; drugs of every description; child pornography; prostitute directories; contact info for purported assassins; and mundane wares such as pirated music and movies.
One of the biggest retail commerce sites on the dark Web, Silk Road, is estimated to move $22 million in drugs annually. AK-47s, C4 explosives, fake driver’s licenses, gold bars — if you can imagine it, someone is probably selling it. Fulfillment can be a pain, and the authorities have started watching these sites and intercepting drug shipments — after all, the anonymity of the dark Web means you can’t tell if the party looking for frozen human pineal glands is a mere ghoul or a state DEA agent.
posted by
BigV
on August 20, 2015 at 8:38 AM
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I myself do not know enough to say.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 20, 2015 at 5:35 AM
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BC-A
Krisles answered this for me too Bill. What's the deal?
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 19, 2015 at 3:12 PM
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Bill
We should know about it....they were talking about it today with news about hackers releasing stuff on the dark web and I never had heard of it and now here you are talking about it....what's the deal?!
posted by
Krisles
on August 19, 2015 at 12:07 PM
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No a bit too late for us Bill, you might make it though.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 19, 2015 at 9:40 AM
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