![]() And when you consider how many pages just one Gmail account will create, you understand the sheer size of the Deep Web. Use an online bank account? The password-protected bits are on the Deep Web. Meanwhile our company intranet is hidden from search engines, and requires a password. You can browse to it if you know the URL, but it won’t appear in a Google search. So that is another page for every page that is on the live site. The content management system into which I am typing this article is on the Deep Web. Thus for every page publicly available on Tech Advisor (and there are literally millions), there is another on the Deep Web. ![]() There are huge numbers of such pages, and most exist for mundane reasons.įor example we have a ‘staging’ version of this very website that is blocked from being indexed by search engines, so we can check stories before we set them live. Thus the ‘Deep Web’ includes the ‘Dark Web’, but also includes all user databases, webmail pages, registration-required web forums, and pages behind paywalls. ![]() The Deep Web refers to all web pages that search engines cannot find. Īlthough all of these terms tend to be used interchangeably, they don’t refer to exactly the same thing. The National Crime Agency (NCA) and UK intelligence outfit GCHQ are together creating the Joint Operations Cell (JOC). In March 2015 the UK government launched a dedicated cybercrime unit to tackle the Dark Web, with a particular focus on cracking down on serious crime rings and child pornography. The spouses of Ashley Madison users received blackmail letters demanding they pay $2500 in Bitcoin or have the infidelity exposed. Hackers stole the data and threatened to upload it to the web if the site did not close down, and they eventually acted on that threat. ![]() The Dark Web hit the headlines in August 2015 (and many times since) after it was reported that 10GB of data stolen from Ashley Madison, a site designed to enable bored spouses to cheat on their partners, was dumped on to the Dark Web. And given recent revelations about US- and UK government snooping on web use, you may feel it is sensible to take your communication on to the Dark Web. People operating within closed, totalitarian societies can use the Dark Web to communicate with the outside world. ![]()
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