Deep Web: All the mysteries and secrets behind the hidden side of the internet

By Claude Kramer

The web was never really needed to commit crime. Perhaps the web, like a scalpel, may be used to save a life or to end it. There was a time when just being aware of the existence of the Deep Web was limited to few people. That made it more likely to be used with illegal intentions. The branch dedicated to illegal activity was named the Darknet, and it was just a small part of the Deep Web anyways. Now we know that things have changed, and those who are approaching the Deep Web concept for the first time, should not follow everything they hear. Much of the data comes from that study of the University of Berkeley in 2001, and has been distorted several times, like a story that is told from generation to generation, until someone decides to turn it into a book. The Deep Web can generate confusion; discover the myths and facts hidden in the depths of the great virtual iceberg.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MB Cooltura
• Release date: Dec 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9789873788529

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Inhalt

Introduction

A digital limbo called the Deep Web

The functioning of the hidden

The iceberg within the Internet

The Deep Web as a synonym for illegal

Accessing the Deep Web

The risks in the deep ocean

Bitcoin and the Deep Web

The myths about the web

Famous pirates

Heirs of Tor

Anonymous routing

The Internet’s submarine hunting

Poseidon lives in the deep sea

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Introduction

It’s just after noon in San Francisco’s Public Library. The tables are almost empty. It’s a Tuesday in October, 2013. There is a peaceful silence. The librarians finish ordering the books that were consulted last night. The reading tables are almost empty. At one of them, to the left, sits a man wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He has just taken two books. He opens them and puts them on the table. Then, he takes his laptop, opens it and starts typing.

A reader who was sitting in the right silently approaches the man, grabs him by the shoulders, pulls him away from his laptop making sure he does not close it, and then pushes him against the wall. Suddenly, the silence breaks as a group of armed FBI agents bursts into the reading room and seizes the man.

The suspect is Ross Ulbricht. He has just typed the user key on his computer, which is already connected to the library´s wireless network. He is 29 years old. In the virtual world he operates under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts.

The most important goal of this scandalous FBI operation had not been to capture Ulbricht, but to confiscate his computer while it was open and unblocked. If Ulbricht had been able to close his laptop, a complex protection system would have turned it