I want to know the details about the dark web of the internet world.

The dark web

Dark web is basically a platform to do anything online while maintaining privacy. Anyone can enter here using the Tor browser. It is not illegal and cannot be stopped. Like VPN, it is designed to protect personal privacy. But doing something illegal on the dark web is illegal. Almost impossible to catch though. Only in the case of major crimes, Interpol traces and arrests the criminals, which is time-consuming and requires a lot of resources.

Onion connects using a multi-layer P2P network similar to torrenting. So to trace you have to trace the connection logs from all the peers you connect using which is impossible as most peers don’t keep logs.

The addresses of most illegal sites on the dark web are private, so you can’t find them with a Google search. If you share a link in a private forum or somewhere, then you can get access to the site. Also, using the popular dark web search engine duckduckgo or similar, publicly accessible forums where authors can write or discuss controversial topics while maintaining personal privacy or get links to download illegal content that is not available on the web or torrent. Or can contact someone in the forum for illegal activities like Arms/Drug Trafficking, Terrorist Activity, Murder etc. Besides, you will find many illegal gambling sites. But on the dark web, no one gives anyone’s personal identity. It also hosts Dark Room where illegal videos like torture, murder, child pornography, rape etc. are broadcasted live for a subscription fee. This is how many earn money here.

Only cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are used for money transactions on the dark web, as it is untraceable. Earlier disposable cards or bank accounts were used which were almost impossible to trace.

What is the interface of the dark web? Since the dark web is connected using P2P, it works very slowly, and also because the sites are hosted from someone’s private server, it is also slower than other websites, because there is no caching or hosting sites from multiple locations. Because of this, the sites are very light weight, also because there is no scripting or web applications used to maintain personal privacy. So if you use the sites it will look like normal HTML pages from 80s/90s.

There are many rumors about dark web like it is illegal or everyone is involved in bad activities, Deepest dark web or Maria web etc. These are all rumours.

TOR Network: The Onion Routing or TOR for short is an online privacy protocol where the dark web is browsed using multiple hosts like onion skins. It basically connects to a site using multiple P2P hosts like torrents.

Link: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network))

Notable Dark Web Crimes:

Silk Road: It was a popular dark web website involved in drug trafficking since 2011. It was called the Amazon of the Dark Web. Here any common man could order drugs online and get home delivery. It was traced and closed in 2015. Link: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace))

Online Crime: An Australian named Peter Scully used to stream live videos in a dark room called NLF (No Limits Fun) where some Filipino children were raped and murdered live. In 2015, after 2/3 years of Chester, he was traced and arrested in the Philippines. Link: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully)

How to use the dark web? :

You can browse the dark web by downloading Tor Browser on PC or Mobile from this link. This is basically adding the Tor Engine to the Firefox browser: [https://www.torproject.org/download/](https://www.torproject.org/download/)

This page contains links to some popular dark websites and search engines, you can connect to Tor browser and browse: https://vpnoverview.com/privacy/anonymous-browsing/dark-web-websites-worth-visiting/