Question

Principles, Cyber security: The Deep Web and The Dark Web

- A description of a dark net, the Surface Web, the Deep Web and the Dark Web. Are any of these terms synonymous? Do they all exist? What is the purpose of those that truly exist?

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ANS 1.

-- Dark net : It is a part of deep web , which usually refers to the website used for the criminal reasons. It works in a hidden way and usually include black market and payment there are made using Bitcoins

-- Surface Web : It is small portion of the world wide web, which is easily available to common people and they access this through search engines. In this usually no secret or criminal activities is done.

-- Deep Web : It is the hidden part of the world wide web that is greater than the surface web. It does not show up in normal search engine. They contain lots of virus and it is dangerous to search there as one can get infected with huge number of viruses.

-- Dark web : They are encrypted content which is not available by normal search engines. It provides access to the illegal activities that can be done while hiding.

-- Synonyms are : Dark web and Dark net.

-- They all exist in real also.

-- Purpose of :

1. Dark net -

- It is used to share illegal files and documents.

- In this people shares illegal goods and services.

- Sometimes the confidential and stolen account details is also shared.

2. Surface web -

- It is used to search the data and things we want.

- This is the one that is readily available and it is the world wide web we usually see i.e. normal search engine.

3. Deep web -

- The purpose of this is mainly all the illegal activities and it is very huge .

- Mostly illicit activities are done here like buying or selling drugs, sharing confidential stolen data or accessing black market.

4. Dark web -

- It is a part of deep web that is small in size and is usually here one can run business anonymously.

- Also illegal activities are carried out in this dark web.