Dark or Deep Web : What and How to Access it

What is Dark Web?

Dark web or the Deep web is generally the part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable. Meaning that users can access any kind of information or allows users to surf through the internet without being traced by anyone(not even your internet service provider ). 

The Dark web consists of the Dark websites which can only be accessed using dark search engines, browsers and some other tools. A Dark website is a typical website, which looks exactly like a normal website and also provides features similar to that of a normal website. The reason why it is called as Dark website is because of the illegal content that it provides to the users visiting that site.

They are pretty much like an other website on the internet, but there are some important differences. One is the website name, instead of ending in .com or .co, the dark websites end in .onion. That's "a special-use top level domain suffix which indicates an anonymous hidden service reachable only via dark search engines and tools. Browsers with appropriate proxy can reach these sites, but others can't.

Dark web sites also use a scrambled naming structure that creates URLs that are often impossible to remember. For example, a popular commerce site called Dream Market goes by the unintelligible address of “eajwlvm3z2lcca76.onion.”

Many dark websites are set up by scammers, who constantly move around to avoid the wrath of their victims. Even commerce sites that may have existed for a year or more can suddenly disappear if the owners decide to cash in and flee with the escrow money they’re holding on behalf of customers.


How To Access Dark Web??

Dark Web can be accessed by using some special browsers like Tor browser which is also called as the onion browser. It was developed in mid-1990's by United States Naval Research laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online.


Is Using Tor legal or illegal??

Using TOR is not illegal, but visiting dark web sites engaging in activities that are illegal in your country will be illegal.


How Tor Works?

Tor aims to conceal its users' identities and their online activity from surveillance and traffic analysis by separating identification and routing. It is an implementation of onion routing, which encrypts and then randomly bounces communications through a network of relays run by volunteers around the globe. 

Everyone on the internet can be identified using their ip address, However Tor Browser bounces from one ip address to another every second. Meaning that your ip address changes every second making you untraceable.


What Content is found or Provided on Dark Web??

You can find illegal goods and activities of all kinds through the Dark web. Which includes illicit drugs, pornography, child pornography, stolen credit card numbers, human trafficking, weapons, exotic animals, copyrighted media and anything else you can think of.

Anonymity is part and parcel on the Dark web, but you may wonder how any money-related transactions can happen when sellers and buyers can't identify each other. That's where Bitcoin comes in. Bitcoin is basically an encrypted digital currency which is used widely for online transactions and payments.



My personal Suggestion :-

However i honestly don't recommend you to use Tor because of the risks that are involved(Your computer getting hacked) while surfing or interacting in Dark or Deep Web. Answer to why i provided this information in the first place is purely for providing general knowledge about the part of Internet most of us don't know. We surf through the internet 24/7 but are not even aware of the things that go behind the scenes. 


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