The Internet And Its Impact On The World

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.

My interest in video gaming is what first brought the Dark Web in to my attention and I find myself not only fascinated but terrified by this network of information that lies under our current internet. I’ll introduce the deep web in it’s entire before I focused in on particular forums and elements such as the bitcoin, /b/, Silk Road, and Marianas web. I’ll address the effect that the dark web has on the war against drugs as well as why, even though authorities know that this form of drug peddling exists why they haven’t stepped in on the activities to ry and put a stop to it.

The Internet is vast. To the casual user, the Internet represents the collection of those websites accessible via search engines such as Google or Bing. Search engines function by utilization of a web crawler which locates and indexes linked pages that are then provided as search results when it meets a particular search’s criteria. But, those web crawlers are only able to identify static pages, leaving out the dynamic pages of the deep web. Imagine a commercial fishing trawler on the open ocean pulling in its catch. The trawler only gathers fish from just barely below the surface and misses the massive

"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 Dark Web better known as Tor is a layer of the online world that is less visible than the online websites unlike Google, Yahoo, or any other common search engines on the world-wide web. The Dark Web refers to a hidden aspect of the internet designed to remain invisible to the public eye by any means necessary. It is a multi-platform web viewer that relies on passing through a series of encrypted tunnels to and between Tor routers that are run by volunteers and organizations around the world.

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” ~Eric Schmidt. As CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt and his company own and operate one of the largest search engines in the world. With them earning $54 billion per year economically, and also $25 billion in the online advertising business, they understand the internet. In fact their estimated total economic influence they have had on the world, it is close to $119 billion (Ha). The internet is growing at an exponential rate. The internet has, in fact, been increasing in size since it was first started in the late 1960’s. As with any resource of this nature, however, we soon found ourselves with a

What is the Dark Web? The Dark web is a part of the commercial internet that is not accessible thru regular internet browser software (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox). Designed in 1995 by the United States Naval Research Laboratory of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Navy, the original version of the onion routing system was intended to provide communications that were resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. The Naval Research Laboratory

The deep web is a network infrastructure that is set in a mesh topology, much like the surface web. The difference between the dark web and the surface web is the content, internet protocols and users. Most of the information that is served through the dark net is illegal. Law enforcement is working on coming up with better ways to track and shut down certain sites offering services such as red rooms, but their efforts are falling short because the number of criminals that are working together to keep the illegal content anonymous on the dark net.

Just when we already feel overwhelmed by the number of results returned when using search engines, such as Google, Bing, there is mounting evidence that there is a great deal that is not being searched – namely the Deep Web. Standard search engines are not indexing most of the information on the Web. Not only the Deep Web is a majority of Web content submerged within these sites, but it is also some of the best information on the Internet. Deep Web is a term used for World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web (which is indexed by standard search engines). A recent publication have explored what the Deep Web is and the implications of it for users as Web searchers. According to Bergman’s article from the Journal of Electronic Publishing, the Deep Web is 400-550 times larger than the Surface Web. Since the Deep Web contents are not static and linked to any other pages, search engines cannot “see” or retrieve contents from the Deep Web, therefore, it becomes hidden. In order to access the Deep Web contents, users have to connect through a proxy service called Tor (short for “The Onion Router”). All activities through Tor are encrypted through multiple nodes in the network so that users’ information are difficult to trace, protecting their privacy. Since all contents on the Deep Web are covered by anonymity, a condition that make it attractive for the cybercrime industry that is moving its business in the region of cyberspace where it is really difficult to trace

The Deep Dark Web. The term conjures up dark images of criminal masterminds scheming to usurp law enforcement, using technology as a platform to perpetrate crimes. However, as nefarious as the term sounds, the Deep Web is nothing more than a collection of websites that are not indexed, or otherwise easily accessible by traditional search engines. This is to say that you cannot effectively navigate to a site located in the Deep Web via a traditional Google search. The pages which are indexed and accessible via traditional internet browsers exist on the World Wide Web. For every one page that is indexed and searchable on the World Wide Web, there are 3000 which are not; these pages exist in the Deep Web (Bergman, 2001, para. 5).

The Deep web is a place on the internet where majority people think loads of illegal activities happen. While there are illegal activities that happen here, the Deep web is only the internet that is not indexed by search engines. People can access these websites through an IP address, but because of these websites not being indexed no one will be able to find them with normal search engines. The Dark web, where the majority of the illegal activities are included in the Deep web as the Deep web is the term used for all the websites including the dark web websites.

A search engine called Tor is the key to accessing in the dark web. Tor is a site that masks peoples’ IP address. An IP address is like a phone number; each person has their own unique number which shows websites where they are from. Tor is the equivalent of an anonymous Google. What Tor does is make it so websites have no way of telling where their clients are from. Tor is so popular that is it

The deep web commonly referred to as the “invisible web” holds 96% of the content on the internet, making it roughly 500 times greater than the surface web (Norton). The content captured by a search engine is denoted as the surface web. Through the assistance of web crawlers, search engines are able to effortlessly capture and catalogue content on the internet and recall it when a search is made. Conversely, webpages beyond the range of these crawlers form a hidden and more complicated place referred to as the deep web (“Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web”). A large portion, approximately 85% of internet users are only concerned with tribal surface web issues so their understanding of the deep web is subpar. The best way to familiarize oneself with the deep web is to explore a concrete definition, discover the content it holds and determine how an average individual can access it.

The deep (or hidden) web refers to the contents lie behind searchable web interfaces that cannot be indexed by searching engines. Based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley, it is estimated that the deep web contains approximately 91,850 terabytes and the surface web is only about 167 terabytes in 2003. More recent studies estimated that 1.9 zettabytes were reached and 0.3 zettabytes were consumed worldwide in 2007. An IDC report estimates that the total of all

The two main functionalities executed by a search engines are building and crawling an index, provision of a hierarchical list of the most relevant websites for search users. A world wide web is like a big-networked city with stops and subway system. Each stop, usually a web page is unique. The search engine needs to formulate a method to span the whole town and identify all breaks alongside the way. The search engine, therefore, uses the best path available that is what we commonly refer to as links. The connection configuration of the web servers binds all the pages together. Using links, automated robots known as crawlers can reach billions of documents that connect to each other in the web (Fishkin, 2015).