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The dark net and all its secret Drugs, human trafficking, and cyberwarfare, these are the thing that can be found on the dark net. The dark net gives us access to all of the content that is not available to us through the normal means. It was developed in the 1990s by the U.S Navy, it is an encrypted web search that allows anyone to search anything in the comfort of their own home without the fear of being found by the authorities. The dark net has many search engines that is well protected, but the most famous one is TOR. TOR is an acronym for The Onion Router, this search engine is used for anonymous search, and people can find thing from illegal drugs to killer for hire. The dark net is the place to find all of the thing that the normal …show more content…
However, since it is public, the same situation applies to everyone else, such as drug dealers, and human traffickers (Perlroth, 2016). The creation of this software changes our culture greatly, it increased the anonymity of people making safer for everyone to speak out or reveal the truth about a cover up, corruption, or manipulation of the government in some ways. This keeps the government accountable for their act (Perlroth, …show more content…
It is a piece of program created to help but just as anything in this world, it also has been abused by the public. The program’s main purpose was to help the navy with communication that is anonymous, to increase protection the military made it accessible to the public, thus making it harder to anyone to find the identity of others. as time goes by, the program’s purpose increased, it is not only an anonymous communication for the military, but for everyone else. With the anonymity, people are more comfortable and daring. The dark net started to gain more people, drug was sold online, since no one knows who the buyer or the seller is, then everyone is protected. But it does not stop there, with the growing number of people joining the dark web, people will ask for more, where there is buyer, there will always be seller. This chains of event made people created the human trafficking industry, people are being kidnapped and sold online for many reason, whether as a sexual slave, or an adult video actor. There are many reasons and even the authorities are not able to do much about the situation since it has expanded, it is normal for people to increase their protection, adding encryption in addition to the already encrypted program, making tracing IP address nearly impossible. The dark net is a program that has and will keep of changing the future, even

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