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The Difference Between the Deep Web and the Dark Web
TLDR The deep web refers to the part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines, while the dark web is a subset of the deep web where illegal activities take place. The deep web contains a wealth of important information, but also includes shady content on the dark web that intentionally hides from search engines for privacy reasons.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
This podcast episode is about the deep web and the dark web, which are two different things, with the dark web being the part of the deep web where nefarious activities occur.
04:07
The deep web is the part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and includes things like BitTorrent sites and government grant pages.
08:14
The deep web includes websites that are password encrypted or not indexed by search engines, while the surface web consists of searchable websites that search engines can index and bring back as search results.
12:22
The deep web is much larger than the surface web and includes important information like medical papers and engineering databases, as well as shady content on the dark web that intentionally hides from search engines for privacy reasons.
16:28
The Silk Road, a famous dark web site, was shut down and its operator, Ross Ulbricht, is being prosecuted for operating the site as well as for hired contract killings.
20:22
The FBI breached the anonymity of Tor users by using malware to track and identify individuals accessing dark web sites, causing a loss of anonymity and raising concerns within the deep web community.
24:10
Tor was originally created by the US Naval Research Laboratory in 2003 for political dissidents and whistleblowers to communicate anonymously, but it is now also used by news agencies and individuals who value privacy, although law enforcement is also using the software to track down criminals.
28:17
The deep web is being utilized by news agencies like Vocative to search for information that cannot be found on the surface web, and the deep web is constantly expanding and becoming more difficult to anonymize.
31:58
This section of the transcript does not contain any relevant information about the deep web.
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