deep web is the name given to a internet zone that cannot be easily detected by traditional search engines, ensuring privacy and anonymity for its browsers. It is made up of a set of websites, forums and communities that they often debate issues of an illegal and immoral nature.
deep web is an English expression and literally means "Deep Internet". Also known as undernetor darknet, The deep web is considered an "invisible internet" because all the content available inside it is not easily accessible to most users. Internet users, and the producers of these contents choose to maintain their anonymity, through software that makes their identification.
The email addresses that are on the deep web, unlike those available on the "conventional internet", are not built in an HTML format, precisely to make access to these pages difficult. This means that the addresses in deep web are not indexed and are not listed in search engines.
To access these contents it is necessary to install specific programs and use "secret codes" to finally be able to access some of these sites.
The sites that are on deep web seek one thing in common: the privacy. Internet users who browse there do not want to be harassed by other users or simply (and mainly), they are criminals, murderers, pedophiles, members of satanic sects or other groups that preach immoral activities and explicit violence against being human.
what exists in the deep web?
THE deep web is huge, getting to be 500 times larger than the "surface web" ("surface web"), with various eccentric and "bizarre" content, such as photos of people being tortured, children raped and other violent and sadistic articles.
The "deep web" is also the territory of the fearsome hackers - cyber criminals - who benefit from the anonymity that the deep web provides to share viruses and so on malware that destroy or steal information from the infected computer.
Drug, arms and even human traffickers use forums and communities from deep web to make your trades or to exchange experiences with other criminals of the same lineage.
Although it is widely used for illegal or criminal activities, the deep web it can also be used for good purposes, such as drawing up plans for public security activities, national security or even activist groups.
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Emergence of deep web
THE deep web came about thanks to the US Navy Research Laboratory, which created the The Onion Routing, a secret communications system that would be responsible for sending data and system analysis over the internet anonymously.
However, in 2006, a version of the project for non-governmental purposes, entitled of TOR (acronym of The Onion Routing). The word "onion" means "onion", in Portuguese, alluding to the various layers that exist in the onion, similar to the layers that an Internet user must go through to reach the desired content on a website. deep web.
the FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation ("Federal Investigation Agency", in Portuguese), joins efforts with other institutions to monitor the deep web, trying to catch criminals or solve crimes that are exposed in the "invisible internet" forums.
THE deep web is it illegal?
According to Brazilian law, access to deep web it's not illegal. What can be considered illegal, in some cases, is the type of activity or interaction that the individual develops in this location.
See also:
- web
- Web 2.0
- World Wide Web