Friday, 21 February 2014

Deep web: Drugs, guns, assassins, jet planes all for sale.....

The "Invisible Web", a.k.a. the "Deep Web"….

You may have heard the term “Deep Web” a sit has been used ubiquitously in the media with the major break-ups of the now infamous website The Silk Road.


The Deep Web is a specific branch of the Internet that's distinguished by that increasingly rare commodity: complete anonymity. It can be defined as anything that can’t be accessed by a search engine that crawls link on web pages. 

The term "invisible web" mainly refers to the vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in the Invisible Web is just not visible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes. Since this information makes up the vast majority of available content on the Web, we are potentially missing out on some pretty amazing resources. Experts say the deep web is 100 or 200 times larger than the internet most users access through browsers like Firefox and Chrome which just scrape the surface of the internet. And it is all totally untraceable

The Deep Web has existed for more than a decade but came under the spotlight  after police shutdown the Silk Road website - the online marketplace dubbed the 'eBay of drugs' - and arrested its creator Ross Ulbricht.
There are fears that terrorists are communicating and plotting on the deep web, beyond the reach of security services. All that is needed to operate is special software allowing you to connect with what lies beneath, in this shadowy online world.
The software masks your internet identity, encrypting your data and bouncing you through a myriad of worldwide Internet Protocol addresses. Instead of PayPal or credit cards, untraceable Bitcoins, a digital currency unit, is used. 

Accessing the Deep Web is rather desirable these days for a range of reasons, including anonymity, free speech, breaching geographical internet restrictions, getting away from the commercial internet and to engage in illegal activity.  And while accessing the Deep Web via networks such as TOR is pretty straight forward it is important that you know what to expect and know how to protect yourself in an online land where "anything goes".
Tor - short for The onion Router - is a seething matrix of encrypted websites that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity. It uses numerous layers of security and encryption to render users anonymous online. Normally, file sharing and internet browsing activity can be tracked by law enforcement through each user's unique IP address that can be traced back to an individual computer. The Tor network on the Deep Web hides the IP address and the activity of the user. Link to access the deep web. But try at your own risk.
There is no way of eradicating it completely from the internet, it is simply too big. The Deep Web is a potential nightmare, an electronic haven for thieves, child pornographers, human traffickers, forgers, assassins and peddlers of state secrets and loose nukes.
Hiring a hitman has never been easier. Nor has purchasing cocaine or heroin, nor even viewing horrific child pornography. Such purchases are now so easy, in fact, that they can all be done from the comfort of one's home at the click of a button... and there's almost nothing the police can do about it. This worrying development of the criminal black market is down entirely to the Deep Web - a seething matrix of encrypted websites - also known as Tor - that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity.
What are the governments of the world doing to regulate this massive underground market? Children are being abused because the images of that abuse are currency in the deep web, being traded for cash, drugs and services while the children suffer alone. Lives are being ruined, and no one is talking about it.

I urge you to stay away. Not only is most of what you will find illegal, it will leave you shaken.