After a lengthy 16 trial, unprecedented in the history of the global judicial system, Ross William Ulbricht was found guilty of seven charges, including money laundering and drug trafficking. It all started in Deep Web.
Ross William Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” is the founder of the online narco-market Silk Road, famous for drug dealing and anything related to crime in general. He faces a possible life sentence for deals made in a space we all share and usually take for granted: cyberspace.
Most people heard about it Deep Web, when Ulbricht was arrested and details were made public on how big a site was Silk Road. It is now known that the Deep Web is a source of content that is not visible to those who do not know.
Our daily online habits take place on the surface of the web, and include browsing web pages whose content is indexed by crawlers that search and collect data. On the surface internet search results show social network pages, gameand many more.
It is believed that the surface tissue is estimated to be is only 0,03% of the total content of the Internet detected by search engines.
Trend Micro researchers have identified the term "Deep Web" as "a category of content on the Internet that, for various technical reasons, is not indexed by search engines."
To put it literally, content hosted on the Deep Web is hidden, hard to track and anonymous. Recently, the film Blackhat introduced some of the defining features of the DeepWeb, such as the Onion Router (TOR) used by hackers (and not only) to hide their location.
Note, however, that many people mistakenly equate the Deep Web to refer only to the Onion Router (TOR) network. This is extremely inaccurate as TOR is just one of only three darknets to offer anonymity. The other two are I2P and Freenet.
The DeepWeb is also full of sites and content hosted on alternatives domains top level or “rogue TLDs” that are not visible to most of us.
The TimeLine of Deep Web
The following chart shows the important events of the Deep Web:
