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What is deep web? Comparison between Deep Web, Surface Web and Dark Web. How do you access it?

 

Deep Web: The Deep web is a part of the World Wide Web whose contents are not publically accessible like Bank Accounts, Email Storage, Private Database, Facebook Message anything that traditional search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. cannot access. The term “Deep Web” comes from Michael K. Bergman a computer scientist in 2001. It is a large portion of the internet estimated at 95%.

Surface Web: The Surface Web (also called the Visible Web, Indexed Web) is a small part of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. It is the opposite of the deep web. It is a small portion of the internet estimated at 5%.
Pic: Surface, Deep and Dark Web (From Google)
Dark Web: The Dark web is the small part of the Deep Web where websites are purposely hidden like Drug Markets, Whistleblower sites, Hacktivist, Illegal business etc. Its content exists on darknets, overlay networks which use the public Internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access. It is a very small portion of the internet estimated at 0.03%.

Dark Web includes:
  • Illegal Business like Drugs, Smuggling etc.
  • Disturbing Images (no more that the normal web).
  • Illegal Pornography.
  • Hacktivist sites, Forums, blogs, Chat rooms.
  • The website for free speech.
  • Others Everything else which is not generally legal.
Fig: Portion of Surface, Deep and Dark Web.
Sometimes the term "Deep Web" is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the Dark Web. Actually, Dark Web is a very small portion of Deep Web which is widely used for the illegal operation.

How to stay safe on Deep Web:
  • Don't buy illegal things.
  • Don't give any personal information.
  • Don't click on links randomly.
  • Don't be rude.
How can you access to Deep Web or Dark Web?

The TOR network is an anonymous network that can only be accessed with a special web browser, called the TOR browser.

Properties of TOR:
  • Proxy and Browser that can access the Deep Web as well as Dark Web.
  • Can be used anonymously to browse the surface web.
  • Usually used for Dark Web.
  • Free to use.
You can download this browser from https://www.torproject.org.

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