We have been reported from time to time Deep Web and we recently published to close several websites at Dark Web. It Wired, with its established Hacker Lexicon column, tries to clarify the concepts of Deep Web and Dark Web.
According to article writer Andy Greenberg, Dark Web represents 0.01% of the Web and not 90% as often reported by blogs and Media. Continuing says:
The Dark Web is not very large, it is not the 90% of the Internet, and it is not particularly secret. In fact, the Dark Web is a collection of websites that are visible to the public but they hide the IP addresses of the servers running them. This means that everyone can visit the Dark Web, but it can be very difficult to understand where they are hosted, or by whom.
Η πλειονότητα των ιστοσελίδων στο Dark Web χρησιμοποιούν το λογισμικό ανωνυμίας Tor, αν και ένας μικρότερος αριθμός, χρησιμοποιεί ένα παρόμοιο εργαλείο που ονομάζεται I2P. Και τα δύο αυτά συστήματα κρυπτογραφούν την κυκλοφορίας του Ιστού σε στρώματα και την πετάνε σε τυχαία επιλεγμένους υπολογιστές σε όλο τον κόσμο. Ο καθένας από αυτούς τους servers αφαιρεί ένα από τα στρώματα της ενιαίας κρυπτογράφησης πριν περάσει τα δεδομένα στον επόμενο server. Στη θεωρία, αυτό είναι που εμποδίζει κάθε κατάσκοπο, ακόμα και αυτούς που ελέγχουν έναν από αυτούς τους servers που μοιράζουν τα κρυπτογραφημένα δεδομένα, να καταλάβει την προέλευση της movementand its destination.
This way the IP addresses of the websites in question are kept hidden, but this does not mean that they are necessarily secret. Hidden services in Tor, such as sites that sell drugs Silk Road, Silk Road 2, Agora and Evolution had hundreds of thousands of regular users. So the address was anything but secret. Anyone running Tor who knows the url of a site (ending in “.onion”) can easily visit illegal online markets.
It should not be confused with the Deep Web
The Dark Web is not the Deep Web and does not represent 90% of the Internet. There is a confusion between the so-called Deep Web and the Dark Web.
The Deep Web is a huge collection of all internet sites that are not accessible by search engines. These unindexed websites include huge volumes of content such as forums that require registration, dynamic websites, services like Gmail and more. The real Dark Web, on the other hand, probably accounts for less than 0,01% of the web, says security researcher Nik Cubrilovic, who counted fewer than 10.000 hidden Tor services in a recent Dark Internet crawl. The number 10.000 is very small, compared to the hundreds of millions of regular websites on the Deep Web.
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Although the Dark Web is often associated with the sale of drugs, weapons, forged documents and child pornography, all websites use the service Tor and it does not only contain "dark" websites as the name suggests. The same service is used by one of the Dark Web's first high-profile pages, Tor WikiLeaks, a hidden service created to receive leaks from anonymous sources. That idea has since been adapted into a tool called SecureDrop, software that integrates Tor's hidden services with any news organization that receives anonymous submissions. Even the Facebook as we reported last week, a Dark Web site was launched with the goal of better protecting (!) users who visit the site with Tor to avoid surveillance and censorship.
Of course, as is often heard, it is not known whether the network Tor can avoid surveillance by authorities and secret services. The question remains open. In early November, a coordinated action by the FBI and Europol seized dozens of Tor services, including three of the six most popular drug markets on the Dark Web. Now, exactly how the feds managed to discover these websites remains a mystery.
The question is: why is the Tor network not hackable? Is there anything on the web that can not be tampered with?
