The deep web is essentially an anonymous browser.
Which hides a page's request origin and means that
users are able to surf the deep web without being
traced by authorities.
This software is easily downloaded from search
engines and in addition to this the deep web has a
secret search engine. This allows users to search the
deep web – as easily as you would search Google – for
illegal wares across a whole range of sites.
Surface web is the name given to the tiny 0.03% of the
web accessible in everyday search engines. This shows
the contrast between the colossal amount of hidden
information on the deep web and what we know.
Now, up and coming technology and software is only
allowing easier access to the deep web. Cryptocurrency
such as Bitcoin provides a relatively protected way to
pay for illegal goods and services across the deep web.
Whilst many of you will never dabble in the deep web,
it is extraordinary to see the ease of access and amount
of hidden information available to us through the deep
web.
GUESTLIST
2017 / ISSUE 104
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TECHNOLOGY
We've all heard of the horrors of the
deep web. Counterfeit currency, drugs,
forged papers, firearms, hitmen and
even human organs but what really
is the deep web and how are people
accessing it?
WHAT IS THE DEEP
WEB?