Browsing the dark web can be dangerous
The Dark Web may be used by people wishing to carry out illegal activities online, such as selling weapons or drugs. These kinds of operations, and the websites offering them, are often referred to as Hidden Services (above).
The dark web is where people can buy illegal drugs and firearms. It's also dotted with sites that specialize in illicit pornography, including child pornography. It's a part of the internet that you can't find with traditional search engines such as Google. Because it is hidden, getting to the dark web isn't easy.
The difference can be explained ideologically. To answer the question posed by the title of this article, the deep state poses a far greater danger than the dark web. Democracy has more to fear from Citizens United and the global surveillance industry than Silk Road or Tor.
The dark web is unregulated and a popular environment for illegal activity. As above, make sure you're only visiting . onion sites you trust and don't share any personal information. Similar to the surface web, the dark web can contain malware.
They function primarily as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving drugs, cyber-arms, weapons, counterfeit currency, stolen credit card details, forged documents, unlicensed pharmaceuticals, steroids, and other illicit goods as well as the sale of legal products.
In the late 1990s, two research organizations in the US Department of Defense drove efforts to develop an anonymized and encrypted network that would protect the sensitive communications of US spies. This secret network would not be known or accessible to ordinary internet surfers.
The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online.
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