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Dark web, Deep web, and Surface web???



When you hear of “the dark web”, what comes to mind? Much like its name, the dark web is a “hidden” Internet, often likened to an online underworld. The dark web, sometimes called the “deep web”, is anything that’s not indexed by search engines like Google. You’ll need a special browser like Tor to access it. The dark web is the part of the deep web where criminal activity happens. Cybercriminals sell stolen data like credit cards, passwords, phone numbers, social security numbers, and more. The dark web is the hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browser. It is used for keeping internet activity anonymous and private, which can be helpful in both legal and illegal applications. While some use it to evade government censorship, it has also been known to be utilized for highly illegal activity.

The deep web rests below the surface and accounts for approximately 90% of all websites. This would be the part of an iceberg beneath the water, much larger than the surface web. In fact, this hidden web is so large that it's impossible to discover exactly how many pages or websites are active at any one time. Carrying on with the analogy, big search engines could be considered like fishing boats that can only 'catch' websites close to the surface. Everything else, from academic journals to private databases and more illicit content, is out of reach. This deep web also includes the portion that we know as the dark web. While many news outlets use 'deep web' and 'dark web' interchangeably, much of the deep portion as a whole is perfectly legal and safe. The dark web itself, though, is not illegal. It offers plenty of sites that, while often objectionable, violate no laws. You can find, for instance, forums, blogs, and social media sites that cover a host of topics such as politics and sports which are not .