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Introduction to the Dark and Deep Web

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Dark Web The  dark web  is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks which use the Internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term  deep web  is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web. The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks like Tor, Freenet, and I2P, operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature.The Tor dark web may be referred to as  onionland , a reference to the network's top level domain suffix .onion and the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing. Deep Web The  deep web ,  invisible web , or  hidden web  are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not inde