The Dark Side of the internet

The Dark Web

The Internet is one huge part of our life, and we constantly use it daily. We are so consumed in it, that a day without it would seem unusual. Yet we haven’t reached all the parts of it.

Dark Web, it could be something you have heard of it on the internet, or this could be your first time.

By Dorjee Khando

What is Dark Web?

The dark web is not a place, but a term that describes parts of the internet that hide your identity and location.

Categories of Web

For starters, the web can be divided into three categories. First there’s the Surface Web, that’s everything that is open and available. Like everything that can be found through a google search. Like Facebook, YouTube and other platforms that we usually use. After that comes the Deep web, it is the portion of the internet that’s hidden from conventional search engines and it contains unindexed websites. Here, you can find personal information like medical records, corporations private data and so on. And finally, there’s the Dark web where the sites are intentionally hidden from the search engines. Sites from the darknet can only be accessed through special browsers which use masked IP addresses to hide the real identity of the users, which is why dark web/net…