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    completely unregulated and free trade is the deep web, and even though a plethora of dangerous illegal activity goes on within it, it should be left alone. Even if the deep web and all the markets hidden within it are somehow shut down, people will find a new haven to carry on their activity. There will always be a bastion for illegal activity somewhere, and there is nothing anyone can do to change that fact. Dark net markets aren’t the only thing hiding in the deep web either, there are entire communities

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    The media’s skewed outlook and reports on the deep web has affected the way the majority of people view this resource that is inherently not a bad tool. The media also misrepresents the deep web by confusing it with the darknet and giving false information about the two. It is easy to get caught in the wave of horror stories that appear in magazines and online content about the deep web and the darknet, but more often than not the deep web is doing more good than is portrayed by the media. The advances

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    Understanding the Basis of the dark web Sophia Sutton Florida Institute of Technology ABSTRACT 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

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    Focused Dark Web Crawling Design Focused crawlers “seek, acquire, index, and maintain pages on a specific set of topics that represent a narrow segment of the web” (Chakrabarti et al. 1999). The need to collect high-quality, domain-specific content results are important characteristics for such crawlers. Some of these characteristics are specific to focused and/or hidden web crawling while others are relevant to all types of spiders. Some of the important considerations for hidden web spiders include

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    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

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    Foucault’s Power (Intro) Power, what is power? Is it a thing, something that can be controlled by a person or group? Or is it an omnipresent force with no clear distinction of what it is and what it is not? My views before being introduced to Foucault was: power is an attainable thing, but elusive. For example, it is said one has power, if one has enough money. Another example I commonly hear is that, the government (the State, the law, police) holds too much power. My final example is, in my opinion

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    Wide Web is the use of the “Dark Web” as a means for criminal activities throughout the world. The “Web” consists of the Surface Web which allows access to popular sites like YouTube and Facebook, the Deep Web, which consist of private databases and libraries filtered out by common search engines like Google, and the Dark Web which is intentionally hidden for reasons of anonymity; whether for good or bad reasons. There are three main solutions that help fray criminal activities on the Dark Web: the

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    "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. Winter astutely starts his smoothly created motion picture with a groundwork for the individuals who tuned in late, clarifying how gathers running from banks and government faculty to cyberpunks and hacktivists work undetected on

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    The dark web, a hidden part of the internet, is unknown to most people. It has been used for many years without many people knowing. People use the dark web for many purposes, but it is mostly used for privacy. Due to the anonymity that it gives one, numerous people get involved in illegal situations. Websites range from chat rooms to drug markets. A person can view illegal government documents, buy heroin, or even watch people get murdered! Sounds like a perfect place for every person right? The

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    Internet And Privacy Essay

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    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

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