what if i told you that the vast majority of what's on the
internet is part of something that sounds like it's right out of a
cyberpunk thriller it's called the deep web
and although you might not feel like tank from the matrix you probably use it
just about every day without even
realizing it but what exactly is this
deep web actually the definition is quite simple
it's the stuff on the internet that you can't bring up with google or your
favorite search engine including everything from private social media
profiles to hidden subreddits to medical scientific and business databases to the
archived pages you'd find on the wayback machine and really just any page that
you simply can't get to without having
the actual url and the permissions to access it and all this stuff really adds
up i mean just think of how many facebook accounts there are how many
companies with sensitive data and cloud storage and how many private youtube
videos there are of god only knows what although it's nearly impossible to
determine exactly how big the deep web is it's been estimated that 99
of content stored on the internet is part of the deep web leading some to
compare the internet to an iceberg with the deep web being the huge mass you
can't see below the surface except it's made up of corporate secrets and drunken
selfies instead of ice all right Linus uh speaking of secrets
and substances i just read a news story about some big shot online you know drug
kingpin or weapons dealer that got busted was he or she operating in the
deep web too uh actually not exactly there's a lot of
confusion between the deep web and the dark web which is a somewhat similar
concept but has some very important differences unlike the deep web sites on
the dark web are often meant to be publicly accessible however you can't
get to these places without special software that usually encrypts and
anonymizes your connection in some way
the best known system that does this is the onion router or tor which works by
encrypting data when it's sent and bouncing it through a number of nodes
until it arrives at its destination each node only decrypts enough of the message
to know where to bounce it next so only the receiving user knows the actual
content this successive peeling back of
encryption layers inspired the onion's name because of tor's high degree of
anonymity it's earned a reputation for all sorts of illicit stuff like
trafficking of drugs weapons animals and humans crime for hire scams botnets and
all sorts of other cd enterprises but believe it or not tor wasn't invented by
some group of online mafioso types hoping to make a quick buck it was
actually developed by the us navy to protect sensitive military
communications and although the us government is busy trying to catch those
who use tor for nefarious purposes there
are a lot of nobler uses for tor and other dark nets as well they can provide
protection to human rights activists and oppressive nations a people with fringe
political views or outside societies mainstream those hiding from abusers
whistleblowers or just folks who want more privacy in an age where people are
concerned legitimately about surveillance in fact uncle sam actually
heavily funds the tor project to help people who are trying to speak out in
authoritarian countries so with the continued growth of social media and
cloud storage and an online community that is increasingly aware of threats to
privacy usage of the deep and dark webs should continue to climb rapidly but
just remember guys that even the best security can be defeated by someone
looking over your shoulder
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