THE DEEP WEB

THE DEEP WEB

For the past few months, Hackers have been making it to the news headlines virtually everyday and a lot has also been said about the "Deep Web". It is said that terror outfits flourish in the "Deep Web" and black market goods from illegal drugs, medical prescriptions, and firearms, etc, can be purchased directly from websites like Alpha Bay, Dream market, Korova, Outlaw Market, Valhalla (Silkkitie), etc,  and you can even hire a hit man to kill your mother-in-law. Having said purchase, implies online credit card transactions, but using this form of payment on the "Deep Web" could render your banking account empty. The way to transact on the "Deep Web" is to make payment with Bitcoins. Bitcoins are rapidly becoming one of the most popular currencies for both online and offline transactions. Bitcoins can be purchases from Silkroad and will require you to set up an account. Transactions are done with a a bitcoin address and a unique private key / PIN number (private wallet software). 

But first, the "Deep Web" is also known as the  "Invisible Web" and the "Hidden Web", which is Internet jargon (search terms) referring to the content on the World Wide Web that are not indexed by search engines. Many believe the "Hidden Web" to be 97 percent larger than the Internet as we know it, of which only 3 percent is available to search engines.  This is true to a degree because most private networks that make up a huge chunk of the Internet do not permit  web spiders to crawl their sites because their robots file denies access to web crawlers hence not available in regular search results. It is also said if you need to buy anything illegal from sites in the "Deep Web" you have to access the sites via a a VPN using a Tor browser in order to fly under the radar of the FBI and CIA and NSA. 

If you desire privacy and a degree anonymity when browsing the net, then the Tor network is an excellent idea, but you sacrifice speed. If you are using Linux then JonDo IP changer is a safer option than Tor. A Whonix-Gateway distro, provides even better protection against IP and location discovery on a Workstation. Then there is also the Tails distro which includes really cool networking features, using the Tor browser that does a good job of hiding  your identity and prevents traffic analysis by zig-zaging your connection through an array of anonymous servers.  These systems are secure but if you download anything fro the Internet via Torrent Network you still risk to expose your IP number which can be easily traced. The Tor browser can be downloaded here.