You may hear the words like ‘Deep Web’ or ‘Dark Web’ in many popular spy movies & TV shows. Dark Web is basically a collection of websites which are present but hidden from the general public. These types of websites keep their IP secret so that it is almost impossible to identify who is behind the screen. Browsers like Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox can’t even able to index the websites from Dark Web, Deep Web.
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How Dark Web Works???
Majority of websites in the Dark Web uses an encrypted tool known as ‘TOR’. TOR acts as a browser for these websites hence many of this having .tor as a domain hence you can’t access it through your general browsers. TOR (Onion Routing) it’s a free software developed by Navel Research Lab (United States) for anonymous communication.According to reports, there are total 8 million websites present on the Internet on the Globe from which 4% of web content is present on websites and 96% of the digital universe is present on Deep Web.All Dark Websites are not coming under the Deep web there are some websites like Silk Road Reloaded which uses service called I2P. Silk Road is the website for purchasing & selling recreational drugs. The owner of this website already has been arrested.
Dark Web & Its Purpose
Dark web is the part of Deep Web & it required some specialized tools for access. Since these websites are present deep underground we are unable to take count for such websites.
