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Exploring the Difference Between the Deep Web and the Dark Web
TLDR The deep web consists of password encrypted web pages, not indexed by search engines, while the dark web is intentionally hidden for privacy reasons. While the deep web can be used for positive purposes, such as providing a safe space for political dissidents, it also contains shady content like child pornography, and search engines struggle to effectively search its vast amount of data.
Timestamped Summary
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The podcast episode titled "SYSK Selects: How the Deep Web Works" discusses the difference between the deep web and the dark web.
04:32
Bruce and his band used the deep web to find out where their music was being pirated the most in order to plan their tour.
08:42
The deep web includes web pages that are password encrypted, not indexed by search engines, or behind paywalls, such as online banking, private company pages, and scientific research papers.
12:51
The deeper you go into the deep web, the more data there is, leading to the problem of big data, where search engines struggle to process and search such a large amount of data effectively.
17:02
The deep web is much larger than the surface web, containing a wide range of information including medical papers, engineering databases, and shady content like child pornography, and the dark web is intentionally hidden from the surface web for privacy reasons, although it is not necessarily proof of wrongdoing.
21:08
The FBI used malware to breach the anonymity of Tor users and discovered that Freedom Hosting, a hosting service on the dark web, had a reputation for hosting child pornography and did nothing about it.
25:07
The FBI's discovery of a loophole in the anonymity of Tor users caused a ripple in the dark web and deep web community, revealing that the feds can find out who they are and reducing the anonymity that was previously enjoyed.
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The deep web and dark web can be used for positive purposes, such as providing a safe space for political dissidents and offering file sharing and email services with increased privacy, but there are also companies that exploit the deep web for their own gain and search engines are not effectively searching the deep web.
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This episode is coming to an end, but for more information on the deep web, you can search for it on the How Stuff Works website, and there is also a listener mail segment.
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Society & Culture
