How dark is the Dark Web?
Maybe you’ve heard some crazy stories that made you think what a terrible and filthy place it is… Maybe you’ve even tried to check it out anyway — downloaded a specialized browser and visited some of the forbidden pages yourself… The question is what you could have found and what you couldn’t. In the beginning, I think I should explain the basic terms, because they are usually not used in a proper meaning. So I apologize to all you, who already know them well, if you do, please skip the next part.These two terms are frequently mistaken with one another or aren’t distinguished at all due to their similarity. But there is an important difference to keep in mind. Deep Web is everything on the internet that is not publicly accessible and is not possible to access and view using a regular search engine like Google and others. So the emails in your mailbox, chats, pictures and much more. Basically, everything on the web you can access using a password. So also your personal data. And also data of your family, employer, friends and everyone else‘s. You can think of the internet as an iceberg. The Deep Web is the part underwater, hidden from view.Dark Web is usually described as the part of the Deep Web where illegal activities take place. But let’s have a closer look at it. Besides illegal activities, Dark Web serves other purposes as well. People can actually use Dark Web the same way as the regular internet. But there are some important differences. To access the Dark Web, people use special software and settings that make them anonymous. One popular software people use to access the Dark Web is called Tor (The Onion Router) which was developed to hide your address while browsing the internet. As you can see, we should know the difference between those two.
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