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BEWARE THE DEEP WEB (AND IRONICALLY MADE BY THE NAVY)

The Deep Web is referring to the portion of the internet that is not tracked by popular search engines. Think of the search engines you use as the nice parts of the city while the Deep Web is where all the drug deals, murders, and black market deal go down; because that’s basically what it is. The Deep Web is notorious for this and it truly is an amazing tool if used properly.

DEVELOPED BY THE NAVY

The Deep Web was actually a project developed by the Navy as a part of the internet. Initially, it was just supposed to be away for special agents to be able to communicate and hold information on the internet without their enemies being able to gain access to it without having search an impossibly high amount of number of internet crack holes in the Deep Web. This worked very effectively and provided a large backbone for the internet to prosper off of, but at the same time, because it was a part of the internet, people began to use it for personal reasons. After a while, the deeply technologically sophisticated people in the world knew of the Deep Web and relied on the Deep Web for a good portion of secretive services.

WHO USES IT NOW

The Navy still uses the Deep Web, but they are no longer the primary users of this form of internet. Indeed, the primary users of the Deep Web are those within the mercenary industry, slave trade industry, drug industry, and the “don’t want to know” industry, because you’ll have nightmares if you know they exist. It is a place where dirty business can be done in secret, information is the currency, and no one knows anyone on the Deep Web if they do not know them in real life.

HOW IT WORKS

The most popular method is to access the area of the net with the browser called Tor. Tor basically pings your IP address all over the place while you are browsing so it seems like you are everywhere at once and tracking your location is near impossible. It is only when you decide to download something that it becomes painfully obvious where you are because there is a dedicated line of data going straight to your computer and no matter how much pinging you do, you simply can’t hide it. While on the Deep Web, you will have to know exactly where you are going or you will go nowhere at all. This is because the Deep Web is so large and vast that there are no crawlers, scripts that retrieve links, that can span even its surface. This is the place where governments hide most of their dirty secrets, so do not expect it to be easy to navigate. So long as you are not downloading anything, even cookies, you will not be seen while exploring. If you have another browser up though, it can be crossed referenced with a repetitive IP address ping location. If that happens, they know where you are and will start looking into you, no matter whether you’re there out of curiosity or not. After all, the Deep Web is like a special club that not a lot of people know about.

BROWSER BEWARE

As mentioned before, unless you know exactly where you are going then you will go nowhere at all. This is because you cannot simply stumble on an address like in Google or Bing, you have to have the actual address. Additionally, if you go to a website, be very careful and make sure you’re going to appropriate websites because there is a lot of bad things on the Deep Web.

EXAMPLES

Dissection of The Homeless – No one knows who provided the information or even how the website was found. However, this website features several different cultures and provides not only documentation, but actual videos of people abducting the homeless and then dissecting them – just because they can.

War Crimes – That is exactly what it provides and users post videos they have of War Crimes they have committed. Many languages are used on its forums and there are a lot of videos of cruel torture and similar… war crimes.

The Russian Sleep Experiment – This Deep Web website is truly disturbing and shows the bizarre nature of the human makeup. It’s basically an experiment to see what would happen if the human body was able to deprive itself of sleep and live. The results are truly disturbing.

picsofdeadkids – That’s exactly what you think it is. It is a site that is dedicated to pictures of dead children and not just wake pictures.

These are just a few of the gruesome and terror-inspiring websites that are on the Deep Web, and a few good reasons why you want to be extremely careful while you’re on it.

THEY ARE WATCHING

The Deep Web is literally a 24/7 watched area by the authorities of the world and if you don’t follow the protocols, you can be sure that they’re already watching everything that you do. The reason for this is that most people going on the Deep Web are there for reasons that authorities would put them in jail for. Even those putting the Deep Web into their search engines are often put on the watch list as well.

WHY IT IS STILL USEFUL

While it may seem like a horror show at first, the Deep Web has its uses. Not only is it a place where information can be shared secretly and a person can build the entire backbone of their website on there, but you can also find someone of the really really deep technological fixes/studies. These are areas where you purposely go to find out about malware that’s being passed around and government level spywares that you may need to protect your company from. There are so many uses that many holding secretive or sensitive information use the Deep Web so that it not only becomes near impossible to track or be taken down, but so that the information is guaranteed to get to its target. It is a crucial tool for the hacker community and is only used by those whose hacking goals are above the average person.