What is the Dark Web

The Dark Web is also the World Wide Web (www) and uses the internet just like the normal Web but needs specific kinds of software, authorization, or some sort of configurations to access. Dark Web is not indexed by search engines like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.

 

Special kinds of browsers like The Onion Routing project(Tor) and Invisible Internet Project (I2P) are used to access the dark web.

 

In the Dark Web, users are not able to get the information about the website host and the host is also not able to trace the user location and IP address due to the high level of encryption. This high encryption make the communication of the dark web users, hosts confidentially.

 

The purpose of the Dark Web is almost for criminal activity, where people can buy drugs, guns, credit card numbers, stolen credentials, etc. Hackers are also there to hake someone’s machine/computer for you.

 

The Dark webs also contain legal content as well. Not every dark web is for criminal activity. Any kind of Club and sport or event can be joined or building social networking through can be done through the Dark Web.

 

Dark Web and Deep Web are not the same. The dark web is just a small part of the Deep Web. The website that due to some reason do not index themselves in the search engine is called Deep Web. This means when we type some queries in the search bar of any browser the Deep Web will not be shown even if the best result can be found on the particular website. But unlike Dark Web, these websites are accessible using a normal browser. No special kind of software and configuration is required for this kind of Website content.