The Dark side of the Web

Paula Ripoll Cacho 27/04/2016

1. What is the Deep web? 2. And the Surface web?3. History of the Dark web4. Levels5. The Onion Router (TOR)6. Money transactions

Summary

What is the Deep Web?

4% www content

96% www content

• World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard engines

• It`s also called the Deepnet, Invisible Web, Hidden Web or Dark Web

• It has more public information than the Surface Web and has approximately 96% (550 billion documents) of the digital universe that is protected by passwords

And what is the Surface web? • Essentially the visible web that is generally

made of static websites (although many connect to Deep Web databases like Amazon.com)

• Examples: Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and digital newspapers such as the New York Times

• Made of static and fixed pages

• The reference is the domain of the common sites suh as .com, .org, .net or similar variations

History of the Dark Web• 1994, Jill H. Ellsworth used the term “invisible web” to refer to

websites that were not registred with any search engine

• Used to communicate for military purposes during its early stages

• 1996, Mike Bergman explain what the invisible web is

• The first use of the specific term “Deep Web” ocurred in 2001 in a Bergman`s study

• Huge amount of research about it

Levels0. Common Web1. Surface Web

2. Bergie Web

3. Deep Web

4. Charter Web5. Marianas Web

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The Onion Router

(TOR)• TOR is software that installs into your browser and sets up the specific connections you need to access dark Web sites

• Onion routing refers to the process of removing encryption layers from Internet communications, similar to peeling back the layers of an onion

• Using TOR makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity

• It is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.

• The most infamous of these sites was the now-defunct Silk Road, an online Marketplace where users could buy drugs, guns and all sorts of other ilegal ítems.

Money transactions

• The main problem of buying an selling items or services in this webs is that users can`t identify each other.

• Bitcoins : A digital currency or crypto-currency that is not backed by any county`s central bank or government. They can be traded for goods or services with vendors who accept Bitcoins as payment.

• Like regular cash, Bitcoin is good for transactions of all kinds, and it also allows for anonymity, that means no one can trace a purchase, illegal or otherwise.

Some examples

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