Deepweb. Dark site of
the internet?
I suppose that you’ve already heard about the deep or dark
site of the internet. But what excactly do you know? It’s hidden network for
popular browsers like Google, Yahoo or Internet Explorer. Every website in the Darknet
is nothing different from regular websites as common guy knows. There are
forums, portals and online stores. There is only one different thing… no
website is available by WWW address and you can’t find them by common browsers.
It’s because every address is exchanged be insider people or institutions but
there are special search engines like Grams that provide access to those pages.
You don’t have to be proffessional in IT to get acces to the Darknet. You need to
install special web browser, just like Tor. But how does it work and what
profits we are getting from? Every request is going to host by two random
node points in tor. Each point erases the trace by giving other IP address and moreover - every data is ecrypted.
Is it illegal? No, everyone can use Darknet and it’s not
forbidden but we have to remember - it doesn’t mean that a border between
legality and illegality isn't thin. It’s the best place for criminals to exchange
informations, trading illegal things like weapons or even human traffcking.
Of course it’s not only criminal environment and there
are many pros of using Deepweb but let me show you short movie about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvthTjC0OI
Questions:
- Have you ever heard about Darknet
- What do you think about privacy in Deepweb
- How extensive is Darknet?
Comments
BUt, It is 'scary' in one way, sort of like a back street at night. But it has its benefits.
On one hand, I think it's noones business to know what I'm looking for online. On the other hand there are so many people that abuse the freedom on the internet (in general) that I realize it would be much better if there would be no possibility to be anonymous on the internet. If everyone used their name and surname, there would be much less bad stuff going on. If people wouldn't be able to hide behind their nicknames, they would most often not insult others, not attack sites, not steal from people, not do other illegal stuff, because they would be easily traceable. Even calling people names would be a piece of cake to fine a person for, without having to do huge investigations to find out who it was. To sum it up, even though it is convenient to be private and anonymous on the internet, I think that it should not be that way and would save us from many problems internet in general brings us.
When it comes to how extensive the dark web is, I am no expert, but it is said to be even larger than the 'visible' web. That is a quite scary thought, especially for people who never had any contact with it, or even knew it existed.
I would just clarify that deep web does have WWW resources, they are just not indexed by popular web search engines.
I once had to collect information about cyber breach events from OSINT and deep web for my start-up (providing assessment of the cyber incident risk). I quickly realized it was impossible to access any valuable information on deep web cybercrime forums if you were not an invited and trusted member. Even on the forums that are not as exclusive as Darkode.com or Hell there is not much information to collect if you were not their verified contact. The public parts of forums were a bunch of kids exchanging textbook SQL injection scripts and db dumps from some obscure websites. KrebsOnSecurity wrote an interesting post about it: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/fool-me-once/
The privacy aspect is a very difficult matter. I don't think it is safe to assume anonymity when using Tor or, in general, when browsing resources on the deep web.
I think there is no need for such as "darkweb privacy", not because we are not secured now or it is easy to find information about us, you just only need to keep your "private files" away from internet, that's it.
There are no borders in darkweb, it's like a space,how you can calculate where is the end ?
It is said that in Deepweb everyone is anonymous but as a person who have never tried it I can't say anything more.
Darknet probably is extremely extensive and it will getting wider and wider.
I like that privacy in Deepweb is highly respected and it's very difficult to identify someone. It may seem suspicious to some but we should remember that not everything that's bad is also illegal and not everything that's illegal is also bad.
As it comes to the privacy inside of it - we can't know which nodes we should really trust. It's after all other people's computers which can perform some nasty actions without us knowing about it.
How extensive it is? It's enormous. We can use TOR browsers to find some of the websites, but still most of them are either hidden from it or guarded with passwords or invite-only mechanism. Usually the only way to get to the deeper parts of dark-web is to gain other people trust inside it - like committing crimes they want you to commit.
You are mixing two different terms and make up some strange definitions...
Heres the link for visual comparison:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8611ffe8ac2ebbb7bd28db70224227e5-c
So, as we see, the Darknet is subset of Deepweb - its not just unindexed, but also requires you to use some special tools to get there.
DeepWeb is basically everything that can't be indexed by search engines' creawlers.
Just disable browsing/listing contents of a directory on your server and BAM!, you've just created part of that bad, corrupted and criminal Deepweb, as folks won't find it in google...
Also, one of the reasons the so-called DeepWeb is so big, is because those "hidden files" are usually part of some websites/services- assume you lock /images directory on your server (which you really should do btw.), so that people can't list its contents.
It is now in deepweb, cause visitors will only see the images you want them to see, and you have 1000+ of images in that folder, yet you share only one image to the public. You have now created hundreds of megabytes of DeepWeb, ain't that great? Even if you log into your bank account, you are accessing deepweb- it's not so scary now, isn't it? In most cases it is there is your privacy.
When it comes to Darknet, we are talking about far more serious stuff- first, you need to get yourself TOR browser and configure it properly (please oh please, don't make your computer an exit-node- you will basically become a bridge between surfaceweb and darknet, guess where all those beefy guys with "CBŚP" letters on their backs will knock first). Then you have to know where and what to look for, and last but not least- You have to have some reputation, or money to get it, as no one will share "the fun stuff" with you for free, except old leaks and exploits patched long ago. As for other uses, TOR is way slower and requires you additional setups, so I don't think there is point in other uses than whistleblowing or some shady businesses.
How extensive is Darknet?
I don't have a knowledge how extensive the Darknet is but I think that if it is simillar to the normal Internet then the Darknet is also a very large place with a lot of informations.
Maybe I am wrong and the Darknet is a place which is interesting to check?
Yes I have heard of it but never had the need to use it.
What do you think about privacy in Deepweb
Our privacy is violated everytime we are searching something or using internet so maybe darkweb is the only way to go in the future.
How extensive is Darknet?
Do not know if it's even countable.
I think that Deepnet is practical because it offers us anonymity, but it also has its drawbacks. The disadvantage is, unfortunately, that its users are mostly people who are taken out of law, in other words, thugs. They know that Deepnet safeguards them before catching on misdeeds, which creates great opportunities for them.
Unfortunately, I didn't get so much into this area and I have no clue how deep Deepnet is.
As far as I know using Tor doesn't make you untraceable. Still there are some ways to track darkweb users, but I don't remember details what to be careful about.
I have never used it, so I don't know that, but I guess it is big enough to keep its users interested in it.
I think, privacy in a Deep Web is a privilege for experienced users. If you want to do some illegal stuff, you have to be prepared. Overall, I guess, everyone can be tracked down.
How extensive is Darknet? There are a lot of going on there, black market of weapons, drugs, personal documents and etc. But we have to remember that Darknet isn't always for bad things.