A Web On The Deep Web

The buying and selling of illegal black market in drugs and pharmaceuticals now heavy depends on the internet. Most transactions and sellers are on the deep web, part of the internet a level beyond our regular use of google and such. This provides secure and confidential communication lines by encryption of computer IP addresses using Tor anonymizing software or web proxy to the Tor network (Van Hout, par 3). Another benefit of it is the Bitcoin digital currency which also helps ensure that financial transactions can not be traced. Through this process seller and buyers found an easier and safer way to do their business.

The deep web is really anything that can’t been indexed, unsearchable and unreachable, by search engines. Now, the deep web is often confused with the dark web, giving the deep web a bad reputation. People associate these types of websites with criminal activities, such as drugs.

The sharing of information may well be the most advanced activity of the twenty-first century occurring across ages and backgrounds with relative ease. Nevertheless, the use of information that is aired through the internet raises several genuine concerns regarding nature, intent, source, and destination as well as the consequences of the content. This is particularly true when the information has to do with people 's identities and other activities that may touch on critical aspects of national security and unauthorized business. As such, there is a mix of reactions among individuals regarding the extent of privacy they would like regarding information that they share or retrieve on the internet. While some may have genuine concerns such as protecting their identity, others are on malicious tracks to cover their person and conduct unwarranted business on the web. The mix of concerns led to the rise of the Dark Web on darknets. A darknet is an overlay network that utilizes the public Internet but requires authorization or special software to access mainly to protect the user’s identity and location from network surveillance and traffic analysis (Sui, Caverlee & Rudesill 2003). Such trends on the internet raise the question; is the Dark Web an important and necessary tool to offset pervasive online surveillance in contemporary society or is the moral panic surrounding the Dark Web in global news media justified? The aim of this research is to answer the raised question

Reading the book “The Dark Net” by Jamie Bartlett, I was capable of reaching to the midpoint of the book. On pages 115-183 Jamie Bartlett describes the awful details that accord on the internet, and how many internet users are not aware of it. On pages 115-134 he describes how pornography has became more accessible for many people on the internet. Many internet users ages 20 and older visit, or manage to click on pop-up links that lead them to child/pornography websites. Bartlett had manages to make time and interview one of these website visitors Michael. Michael is in his fifties he is married and has a grown up daughter. As Bartlett described Michael had started to watch pornography occasionally in his twenties, but when it became a habit

The web was created by migration, trade, missionary work, technology transfer, biological exchange, and military conquest

Sometimes, in order for an individual's own safety, sacrifices have to be made. The government has full justification to arbitrate the people’s online private matters because it is necessary for the protection of the country and its citizens. One example comes from an underground network called the “deep web”. The deep web could be described as the wild west of the internet. Numerous amounts of information are posted on the deep web where normal search engines like Google or Bing do not show. According to Tyler Biscontini, a writer for the Salem Press, the deep web is useful for many different reasons. It provides anonymity to anyone using it. Special software must be downloaded in order to run the deep web. This is mainly because the deep web’s main feature is that the user’s ip address is changed so that they can roam the web free of the fear of being tracked. It also provides a significant greater amount of information that is not accessible on a normal browser. Journalist especially, use the deep web in order to dive into research and scouting topics for future stories. However, the deep web can also be a dangerous place. Many individuals take advantage of its features for wrongdoing. Due to the anonymity that comes with accessing the deep web, it is hard to track down individuals performing the crimes. Lev Grossman, a writer for Time Magazine, describes an occurrence that happened

Security and privacy concerns present challenges for law enforcement combating deep web criminal activity. Crimes committed on or with the Internet are relatively new. Those crimes include illicit trade in drugs, weapons, wildlife, stolen goods, or people; illegal gambling; sex trafficking; child pornography; terrorism and anarchy; corporate and sovereign espionage; and financial crimes. Police agencies have been fighting an uphill battle always one step behind an ever evolving digital landscape and the criminals who exploit it. The novelty of the Internet begets jurisdictional and legal issues law enforcement must address while remaining ethical and holding to the code of law. Due to the anonymous nature of deep web criminal activity and the means for uncovering perpetrators, privacy concerns of citizens legally using the same software or websites are now a hot topic.

"Profound Web" starts as an enlightening outline of the Internet 's non-listed advanced substratum, then limits its center to relate the capture, arraignment and conviction of Ross Ulbricht, charged originator and administrator of the infamous Silk Road online bazaar.

The human web is defined as human interactions with one another in the form of trading, friendships, rivalries, and much more. Humans may provide information, trade crops, or share new technology with each other through these interactions (McNeill and McNeill 2003: 3). Globalization is defined as a global structure where the communities internationally cause integration among the people in culture, technology, and ideas (Scott and Marshall 2009: 286-287). Through globalization, many cultures are spreading and the geographical specific locations for certain cultures are receding (Scott and Marshall 2009: 286). Humans’ main traits consist of “communication, cooperation, and competition” (McNeill and McNeill 2003: 4).

When you begin to examine how the internet and crime are related, you must first examine exactly what the internet is and how it works. The internet is a global system of computers and networks that are interconnected and service billions of users at any given time. This could be considered a cybercriminals’ playground. Because billions of computers are connected via a vast array of private and public networks including many government agencies, it is easy to see how a cybercriminal could obtain valuable information or unleash denial of service attacks that could cripple many of these systems.

INTRO The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg is a novel that is written around the importance as well as the relevance of the internet in today’s society regarding state safety. The claim Klimburg makes throughout the novel is that no invention at all has changed the way we live, as much as it has been changed by the creation of the Internet. Many would consider the Internet to be the greatest invention to happen to mankind, considering how easily accessible it is and how much information it holds. However, Klimburg’s novel explores the idea of cyberspace in regard to politics.

Unknown to most, the Deep Web actually exists and only takes a few clicks on your computer to access it, if you know what you're doing. Also unknown to most is the illegal activity and the online predators that are roaming all over the web. These predators can be financial predators or sexual predators. Throughout this essay I will be explaining three themes in chronological order. Financial predators, sexual predators, and discussing why the illegal activity on the Deep web is bad for society.

We can also “surf” the web and look for information, statistics, news, and weather; you name it, and it probably resides on the Internet is some way or fashion. However, someone can actually rack your every move and site access just by knowing what your Internet Protocol (IP) address is. What most people are not aware of is that there are two portions of the Internet. One, is the one that was just described, and the other is the hidden portion of the Internet which is known as the Darknet. The Darknet is a peer-to-peer network that does not appear in the network lists and will not answer to pings or other systems administrator or Security type computer inquiries. Al-Qaeda has progressively been using the more and Ayman al-Zawahiri used it as a medium to communicate with his subordinate leaders in the field. The dark net uses the “The Onion Router” (TOR) in its effort to prevent the monitoring of Darknet websites, and makes it rather difficult to learn the user’s physical location through their use of certain websites. Not surprisingly, not only are terrorist organizations migrating to the Darknet, but pedophiles are flocking there

The Dark Web is a term that is referred to specifically as a collection of websites that are publicly visible, but hide the IP addresses (Location) of the servers that run them. Thus they can be visited by any web user, but it is very difficult to work out who is behind and using the sites. And you cannot find these sites using any regular search engines such as google. Almost all sites on the Dark Web hide their identity and IP address using the Tor encryption tool. You can use Tor to hide your identity, and spoof your location. When a website is run through Tor it has much the same effect.

As technology has propelled forward in our exploration of knowledge relating to computers and their science it is understandable that there are still areas of this field which may yet remain unexplored. One particular field being the Dark Web, which has been defined as an area of the deep web which has, “been intentionally hidden and is therefore inaccessible through standard [web] browsers.” (Brightplanet.) Although this web has evolved over the course of many years, possibly dating back to the 1990s and the development of onion routing, it has advanced itself into an industry which no one could have ever predicted. Further as well delve deeper into this developmental occurrence known as the Dark Web, I feel that we must ask ourselves how this has evolved into what we know it as today and whether or not it represents our future or past in dealing with the internet activities.