Everything about Dark Web the hidden iceberg.

Dark Web

Many of you must have heard this Deep Web or Dark Web or Dark Net and many may not have heard. Dark web is a hidden network from the internet we see on day to day basis. No traditional search engines (Chrome, Mozilla, IE, etc.) will be able to find or locate the dark web because, those information are not indexed by search engines. Specific software, search engine optimization and configurations were made behind. 

This black market deals mostly on pirated software, illegal arms trafficking. It is also known as black market which is operated online and behind the curtain.

Websites on the dark web use much encryption software to keep their visitors and owners remain anonymous and hide their locations over the network and making it as home to so much illegal activity. If you tap into the dark web, you’ll find everything from illegal drug and gun sales to illicit pornography and stolen credit card, bank account number, banking passwords and Social Security numbers.

As per Norton reports, key event for the dark web came in 2002, when the alpha version of the Tor web browser was launched. This browser, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software that allows people to travel the web anonymously. The development of the Tor Browser that is commonly used today to access the dark web began in 2008. Even if anyone wants to access dark web, its legal. No worries, but yes if you buy items or deal with any matters through dark web, then it becomes illegal.

When you go and browse dark web you can find items in sell such as;

• Stolen credit card numbers
• Firearms
• Pornography
• Sex racket
• Stolen gold and jewelry
• Stolen Social Security numbers
• Marijuana
• Guns 
• Costly apparels
• Fake passports

The deep web is little bit safer than the dark web. Accessing the contents are also safe. Deep web is little bit different than dark web, in deep web you can find stored information on below items;

• The content of your personal email accounts
• Your social media account contents
• Your online banking contents
• Private database of companies and corporate
• Medical records
• Legal documents

How to access dark web

Accessing to dark web is not a difficult task, all you need some search engine and some browser to access. The most popular one is TOR browser, you can not access using chrome or Mozilla. People use this browser to become anonymous while browsing. But there is some tricky methods to find the dark web sites through the TOR. Again remember it is not safe always to browse dark web contents, you might require one VPN connectivity for adding more safe to your browsing. Never share any personal information in dark web.

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-DR