What is Dark Web? | What is Internet? | You Me and I.T.

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What is internet?

The Internet is a network of computers around the world in which all computers exchange information with each other using an IP address. We have explained in detail about the internet in another article Click to read. Let us now understand how many types of Internet or this network are there?

• Surface web
• Deep web
• Dark web

01 | What is Surface web?

It is that part of the Internet that is accessed with the help of a search engine without any special permission. This is a commonly used Internet that you use in daily life. When you search about a subject in a search engine like Google, all the results shown to you are under this. Let me tell you this is only about 5% of the entire Internet.

02 | What is Deep web?

It is that part of the Internet in which you cannot get any information with the help of search engines only. This information is not present in the search engine, to get this information you need special permission after which you can access such information in your normal browser. This includes all information that is protected by a password. Such as your e-mail accounts, social media accounts, cloud storage, any content you have subscribed to, personal data of companies, governments, institutions, etc. It is about 95% of the entire Internet.

03 | What is Dark web?

The final type of Internet is the dark web. Often people believe that the dark web is an illegal form of the internet, but it is not completely true. Let's understand in detail the dark web. As we have explained in our article on VPN, how your ISP has all the information about the Internet you use, due to which your privacy is not protected.

Keeping this in mind, a project TOR the Onion Router was launched by the American Naval Research Laboratory in the mid-1990s, at which time the main objective was to secure US intelligence communications. The project was completed and commissioned in 2002 and opened in 2004 for general public use.

Its main purpose is to protect your privacy or what you are doing on the Internet from governments or institutions. Since the identity of the user here is completely secret, the dark web is also used for illegal activities like smuggling, fake currency trading, drug dealing, illegal arms purchase, selling someone's private data and stealing it to someone else. is.

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How Dark Web work?

Let us understand what is the working of Dark Web? As you know, any device that is able to access the Internet is given an identity as an IP address. With the help of this IP address, your ISP, a government agency or a hacker can monitor your activities. So indirectly this IP address becomes your identity rather than your device's identity.

We had explained in the article about VPN how you can change your IP address and its geographical location by connecting to VPN and protect your privacy. Here, let us briefly tell you that VPN or Virtual Private Network is a server from which any request you send on the Internet after connection is sent to you by this server, and the IP address and geographical location is also used by this server. . In such a situation, you are saved from your ISP or any other organization you are keeping an eye on.

The Dark Web also works on this methodology. While in VPN you are connected to only one server at a time, in the dark web you are connected to many VPN servers and your request to find a topic on the Internet is fulfilled by these different servers. Thus, a network of servers is created and it is impossible to back-trace the application, which cannot determine which IP address or device the application was started.

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How you can use Dark Web?

Let me tell you, it is not illegal to use the dark web unless you use it for any illegal work. Let us understand how you can use it. It is not possible to run the dark web from a normal browser, for this you have to use TOR browser. You can download this browser from TOR's official website.

As we have told, your application in Dark Web is done through many other servers, so your personal data may be stolen from a server, so do not do your important work like email, internet banking, social media accounts etc. in TOR browser.

Just as websites used in our daily life end with .com, .in, .net, .gov, .edu etc. At the same time, websites associated with the dark web end with .onion, people who host such websites use their own private servers. For your safety, tell us not to visit such websites which end with .onion because such websites are more likely to engage in illegal activities.

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