Dark Web, Deep Web, Clear Web — just words or even more?

Sheikh Mohammad Enayet Karim
5 min readJun 10, 2020

Considering how many of you are interested in hearing and knowing about Dark Web in the internet, so I decided to make this little Dark Web guide. If you want to learn about Tor.Onion, secret, Silk Road, Governmental ops, hush-hush, and how to get it all on the mysterious Dark Web, and also the Dark Web, then you are at the right place.

What is the dark web anyway?
Now, before we go into its depths, we will need to show and explain a little bit about the difference between Dark Web, Deep Web and Clear Web. I’ll start later because the writer’s privilege. So, Clear Web is the first and very visible layer of the Internet. Basically, this is what we see when we search from Google or Bing (BING, Yahoo,) Search Engines for things like TikTok’s videos or popular YouTube songs (songs). See things on the internet.

From a technical standpoint, Clear Web defines the content it is indexed, crawled, and displayed by various search engines. Unfortunately, Clear Internet is only about 4% of the entire Internet. If you do not know what a clear Internet is, then I have already made it clear that the Internet that we use in our day-to-day activities like YouTube, Facebook, , Google, TikTok, use it is clear web or clear internet which is very small part of the whole internet and now you will think what is the rest of internet ?

Deep Web vs Dark Web
Welcome to DEEP WEB, the part of the Internet that cannot be indexed (searched) by search engines. There is nothing scary about Deep Web ; This includes items such as scientific white papers, medical records, tax-related information (Gov.Tex Review), PayPal membership, military equity, and more. Although as the deep web hides behind HTTPS, its content can be accessed if you know what you’re looking for.

Most websites hosted on the dark web can be accessed on a credential basis. For example, if your health provider has a website capable of performing online blood-work tests, that particular section will be hosted on the deep web — it will not be indexed by Google or Bing and is accessed only through a password can go.

Oh, almost forgot to mention deep web accounts for 96 percent of the internet.

It is about clear web and deep web.

What is the dark web again?
Okay, if the clear or surface web is Google’s best friend and the dark web, absolutely its secret lover, then the dark web can definitely be evil twins or oddballs.

Accounting for 4 percent of the Internet, the Dark Web is alone the oddest mix — on the one hand, it is a cesspool, a lucrative location for black hat hackers, drug dealers, hitman and human smugglers. On the other hand, due to its clandestine nature (I’ll get to it in a second), this internet fold acts like a political boycott and a liaison between the people of the free world. It is also used by those who wish to submit anonymous tips (whistleblowers).
The Dark Web is preferred by both groups because of its ability to make anything and anything invisible. Privacy and anonymity can you consider the core values ​​of Darknet. There is no such thing as a mother-server that hosts the entire Dark Web, but rather a swarm of servers and nodes that can only be accessed via onion-type links. So what are they?

Tor.onion Browser
Since everything is strictly decentralized on the Dark Web, there are no permit for the crawlers to bring the information together. Even the URLs, if we can call them, are infinitely different from what we are using.

For example, if you want to use a site like YouTube, all you have to do is write the URL in the address bar (ie.: https://youtube.com ) or search the website using google.com. Now, for the dark web, you must have to know the URL to the last decimal and other character to access it. All black web addresses have seemingly random strings consisting of numbers and letters, followed by a .onion extension.

Again, we should not lose sight of the fact that the Dark Web is where a large number of criminal activities take place. Everything you have heard about the news about the Dark Web in a little detail is true.

It is the place where hackers offer their services in exchange for buying stolen data from users or companies or in exchange for bitcoins or other forms of cryptocurrency. Even more, if you dare to dig deep, you can uncover other child-enhancing activities such as human trafficking, child pornography, torture or murder on demand.

Charming little place, isn’t it? Well, this is where we are going. Now, before you can access the Dark Web, there are some things you must do, security-wise. ready? Set? Go!

Preparing to set sail
# 1. Set up a vpn
VPN services are a must when you are trying to access the dark web . Why? Because of the long hand of the law. Technically, you are free to surf on this internet layer, provided that you are not involved in any illegal activities. However, a recent US Supreme Court in a decision also to browsing believed that Darknet can you get enough hot water.

This means that if the authorities will stop your Darknet connection request, they will have enough reason to search your home and seize the machine used for browsing. So, do yourself a favor and download a VPN before messing around on the dark web.

# 2. Install a sufficient browser
The first rule of the Dark Web — Never, ever use your default browser to search stuff on Darknet. Popular browsers like Chrome, Opera or Firefox have tracking technologies that make you very visible on the officers’ radar. So, if you are still willing to do this, I would recommend you download Tor , which is, by far, the most secure and easy to use Onion browser.

Of course, there are others who would argue that the Tor being built by the military for secret communications makes it unreliable, privacy-wise as it is supposed to be seen. I won’t take that one, but still, there is no smoke without fire. It’s all up to you.

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