The internet has so many advantages and the most important one involves acting as a source of information, but in spite of the many advantages there are many things involved in the internet that are not good, legal, or even visible. The information provided by browsers such as Google chrome and Firefox only provide surface information hence they are called the surface web (Bocij, 2013). The other information is referred to as the deep web and it is not easily searched because the sites have security and private measures. Inside the deep web there is dark web in which information is encrypted form and the users and owners are usually anonymous.
The Dark Web
Dark web is a term that is used to refer to a collection of websites that are publicly …show more content…
Deep web is a term that is used to refer to all web pages that cannot be found using the search engines (Chen, 2012). So deep web includes user’s databases, dark web, pages behind pay walls and webmail pages. There are vast numbers of pages such as these ones that exist mainly for everyday reasons. Unlike what the news sites report the actual dark web accounts for less than 0.01 percent of the web and the deep web accounts for 90 percent of the web (Bocij, 2013). Dark internet is another term that is used to refer to websites, databases and networks that are unreachable through the internet. Data can be unreachable in this case due to technical reasons, or because the data is private or because it contains information that will be needed by a few people. The tabloids use the phrases deep web and dark web to refer to secret and unsafe online worlds. The dark internet is known by many people as a place where raw data is stored by scientists for …show more content…
The Tor browser bundle can be downloaded from the internet and it contains all the important and needed tools. Accessing the dark web involves running the downloaded file, choosing an extraction location, opening the folder and clicking on the start Tor Browser (Ortiz-Arroyo, 2013). It is recommended that a user should place a tape on the laptops webcam in order to keep prying eyes from watching or use a tinfoil hat depending on the intentions of the user on using the dark web. Accessing the dark web is easy but it is difficult to know what to search and unsafe sites such as the sites for selling guns and drugs and other worse sites can be just a click away. The dark web sites also like other sites usually fail from time to time mostly because of their dark nature. The dark web is not a bad site the reason as to why it is bad is because people can do their private things and remain anonymous and also the fact that law enforcement is not able to get a way into the web therefore this encourages criminal activities (Yang,
The Dark Web
Dark web is a term that is used to refer to a collection of websites that are publicly …show more content…
Deep web is a term that is used to refer to all web pages that cannot be found using the search engines (Chen, 2012). So deep web includes user’s databases, dark web, pages behind pay walls and webmail pages. There are vast numbers of pages such as these ones that exist mainly for everyday reasons. Unlike what the news sites report the actual dark web accounts for less than 0.01 percent of the web and the deep web accounts for 90 percent of the web (Bocij, 2013). Dark internet is another term that is used to refer to websites, databases and networks that are unreachable through the internet. Data can be unreachable in this case due to technical reasons, or because the data is private or because it contains information that will be needed by a few people. The tabloids use the phrases deep web and dark web to refer to secret and unsafe online worlds. The dark internet is known by many people as a place where raw data is stored by scientists for …show more content…
The Tor browser bundle can be downloaded from the internet and it contains all the important and needed tools. Accessing the dark web involves running the downloaded file, choosing an extraction location, opening the folder and clicking on the start Tor Browser (Ortiz-Arroyo, 2013). It is recommended that a user should place a tape on the laptops webcam in order to keep prying eyes from watching or use a tinfoil hat depending on the intentions of the user on using the dark web. Accessing the dark web is easy but it is difficult to know what to search and unsafe sites such as the sites for selling guns and drugs and other worse sites can be just a click away. The dark web sites also like other sites usually fail from time to time mostly because of their dark nature. The dark web is not a bad site the reason as to why it is bad is because people can do their private things and remain anonymous and also the fact that law enforcement is not able to get a way into the web therefore this encourages criminal activities (Yang,