The 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.

Privacy is something that most people believe is not possible on the internet, but with the correct knowledge it can be possible. In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty”, he states that “It is very easy to find information about people on the internet, even private things that people don’t expect others to be able to see” (538). People don’t realize that what they do online can affect their personal lives such as their credit score, the ads that are recommended to them, and even the cookies in their computer. While Carr may have great points, he may not have considered the ways people do have privacy. There are some ways to protect browsing, people just need to know how. Most browsers have a mode that allows people to visit sites without being tracked. There’s no history, and no cookies.

A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. Crawlers can validate hyperlinks and HTML code. They can also be used for web scraping. Crawlers consume resources on the systems they visit and often visit sites without approval. Issues of schedule, load, and "politeness" come into play when large collections of pages are accessed. Mechanisms exist for public sites not wishing to be crawled to make this known to the crawling

The NSA, National Security Agency, is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The headquarters are in Maryland. The founder is Harry S. Truman. It was founded on November 4th, 1952. Their motto is "Defending Our Nation. Securing The Future." They have an annual budget of Classified (estimated $10.8 billion, 2013). The agency that overlooks them is the United States Department of Defense. The NSA is under the authority of Director of National Intelligence. The Nsa is responsible for a lot of things; global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in

I am writing to you because I am a petrified citizen. I am concerned because of the many recent cyber attacks that have happened. Many other people are probably very worried about their information being put out there on the dark web too.

Almost everyone uses the internet, and it is very easy to take for granted, but not many people know how easy it is for the government and NSA (National Security Agency) to

Jurisdiction is the most prominent issue for enforcement officers to deal with international crimes stemming from the deep web. There are illegal markets for gambling, weapons, explosives, assassinations, exotic animals, terrorism and hacktivism all of which can be accessed by anyone in the world if they knew the right ways to get in. The darknet has an international customer base, and cases can get even more complicated when criminals from different countries start to work together. Questions of which country’s law should be followed and what punishment should be given arise, and not all parties involved end up satisfied. While it is impossible to please everyone with a trial and punishment, having an international court disfuses any issue concerning jurisdiction in order to deal with the criminal.

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.

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.

The NSA has the ability to monitor and regulate anything and everything people do on the internet. However citizens do have rights and laws to protect them from when and what they monitor them on. The NSA on all levels of government must have probable cause in order to monitor what is on or what people are doing on the internet. However once somebody brings attention to their activity on the internet, the NSA is then allowed to check it out. The NSA has teamed up with many large search engines such as: google,bing,yahoo,firefox and many others to have access to recent search history and sites visited from each user. These search engines are not allowed to release your information without the NSA having a suspicion or reason to believe that you are performing illicit

“Dozens of federal Web sites use unauthorized software that tracks Internet users despite policy rules that ban such information-gathering, according to a report to Congress.” (Zuckerbrod, 1) Even though these are federally-run sites, there is no getting around the fact that there is dishonesty on how these websites are being run and monitored. Deontologists say that no matter how morally reputable the reason could be, lying is wrong. Even browsers that have previously thought to have been completely anonymous and secure are not immune to the FBI and NSA tracking them. Take Tor, a downloadable web browser once thought to be the internet's most effective tool to keep anonymity. Silk Road ran as an online shopping tool through this company to help users buy items completely anonymously. Partially because of the anonymity Silk Road afforded its users, it developed into an online black market for drugs, guns, and other items. But, on October 2, 2013 the FBI shut down Silk Road. The FBI had tracked down the computer server that housed Silk Road and "Monitored more than 1.2 million private communications on the site."(Pagliery, 1). And now Tor itself is no longer safe, as Joe Pagliery points out in a CNN Money article. "The NSA figured out how to track down who's who on Tor by exploiting weaknesses in Web browsers, according to documents former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked to The Guardian -- a bug that was only recently fixed." (Pagliery, 1). So yes, the government can, and does, monitor internet users, even though users are using “private” browsers. The problem with the US government monitoring the internet is the internet is a global program. The US federal government has neither jurisdiction over international sites on the internet, nor over foreign viewers of American-based websites. By

In this week’s Communication 211 lesson, we discuss Jeffrey Child, Judy Pearson, and Paul Nelson’s chapter on “Interpersonal Communication,” and Saundra Hybels and Richard L. Weaver’s chapter titled “Communication & Technology.” We also address Alex Lambert’s views in “Discovering Intimacy on Facebook” and Dean Obeidallah’s piece asking, “Are we sharing too much online?” Finally, we compare and contrast our readings with the week’s lecture on CANVAS from Professor Julia Green, which addresses features of “The dark side of the internet.”

Red Rooms are supposedly found on an underground segment of the internet referred to as the "dark web". The dark web itself is a real entity, and can only be accessed through a special browser called the Tor browser (Roy, "Everything"). The dark web differs from the regular internet in that while the regular internet, or "clear web" can be searched easily with services such as Google, websites on the dark web can only be accessed if someone has the site 's web address. Unlike "clear web" sites, which have simple addresses such as "google.com" or "facebook.com", the addresses for dark web sites are an incomprehensible jumble of letters and numbers (Roy, "Everything"). The only way to obtain a dark web address to be given the address by someone who wishes to distribute it, which gives dark web sites a sense of exclusivity and secrecy. In many versions of the Red Room story, access to the Red Room is purchased with a currency called "Bitcoin" ("Are Deep Web"). Bitcoin is a real currency, and while the technical details of the Bitcoin currency are rather complex, it is worth

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.