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  1. Dark web

    The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the dark web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user's location. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web. The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Hyphanet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as clearnet due to its unencrypted nature. The Tor dark web or onionland uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network's top-level domain suffix.onion. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines.The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. [11] Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. [12] The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, but requires ...
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  4. britannica.com

    Dec 3, 2024The earliest form of the modern dark web arose in March 2000 when Irish student Ian Clarke developed and released Freenet, which offers anonymous communication online via a decentralized network of Freenet's users. However, the software that popularized the dark web is The Onion Router (), which launched on September 20, 2002.The U.S. government's Naval Research Laboratory developed Tor ...
  5. identityiq.com

    The history of the dark web is one of scandal, intrigue, and government intervention. Learn about Tor, Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, and DARPA. Protection. How We Protect You. ... known as Dread Pirate Roberts on the site. He was a 26-year-old recent graduate of Penn State University with a master's degree in materials science and engineering ...
  6. historytools.org

    Mar 25, 2024While the deep web comprises 96% of the internet, the dark web occupies just 0.01%, or around 100,000 sites.[^1] Tor, the most popular dark web browser, has an estimated 2.5 million daily users, more than doubling from 1 million in 2020.[^2] This represents about 0.2% of the internet's 1.2 billion total users.
  7. geekflare.com

    Nov 27, 2024The dark web is often shrouded in mystery, contributing to several misconceptions about its purpose and functionality. Below, we have busted common dark web myths to help you separate fact from fiction. Myth 1: The Dark Web Is Only Used for Illegal Activities. The dark web is not exclusively used for illegal activities.
  8. crowdstrike.com

    The dark web is the part of the internet where users can access unindexed web content anonymously through special web browsers like TOR. While the dark web is popularly associated with illegal activities, it is also used by the intelligence community, whistleblowers, members of the media and ordinary citizens whose communication may be ...

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