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• The terms deep web and dark web are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Deep web simply refers to anything on the web that can’t be found using a search engine like Google or Bing, or even DuckduckGo.
• This means anything behind a paywall, anything that is password protected, or anything that is dynamically generated and doesn’t have a permanent URL — all of these things are said to comprise the deep web because they don’t exist at the surface of the web.

Conduct your own research on the DEEP WEB and the DARK WEB. Explain the differences and why they exist in about 350 words (3 Paragraphs). Include the types of information that may be found on each.

Use your own words and provide hyperlinks to the references and note that plagiarism is not acceptable.

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Running head: DEEP WEB VS. DARK WEB 1

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Deep Web vs. Dark Web

Name: Sudheer Raavi

Institution: New England College

Course: Cybersecurity Planning & Mgmt

Deep Web vs. Dark Web

The deep web and dark web are used interchangeably but have different meanings. The deep web refers to the pages that are not indexed, implying that
any search engine will fail to return them after searching. Search engine crawlers cannot see these pages as they are invisible. Deep web, therefore, works in
one major way, which is obscurity. Obscurity means the inability to locate an internet resource using any major search engine. The deep web is achieved
by adding a preferable robots.txt file to the website (Sen, 2019). It prevents crawlers from indexing such a site and eventually prevents the pages from dis-
playing the search engine results pages (SERPS). On the other hand, the dark web refers to the various encrypted overlay and self-contained networks that
live on top of the internet and inaccessible unless one has the right protocol and tools. By comparison, the deep web is larger than the dark web.
Dark web sites are only in thousands. Usually, the sites in the Dark Web are differentiated by the use of encryption software, which makes any user and the lo-
cation secret. It is the reason for illegal activities that are dominant on the dark web because users can hide their identities (Sussman, 2018). The owners of the
illegal websites also conceal their location and data transfer occurs anonymously. Overall, the dark web houses various illegal activities like firearms, drug
deals, gambling, and other illicit trades. Therefore, the deep web includes various parts of legitimate websites like schools, banks, and other institutional web-
sites that require logins. Also, it can be mainstream web like Netflix pages since they are personalized for the users and the URLs are not indexed (Sen, 2019).
The dark web, however, is a smaller portion since the sites are intentionally hidden and unreachable through standard search engines. A famous element that
offers access to the dark web is the TOR network. TOR network is anonymous and can only access through a specific web browser, known as the TOR browser.
Therefore, the dark web has illegal activities due to the anonymity of the TOR network.

References

Sen, K. (2019). Deep Web vs Dark Web: What’s the difference?. Upguard. Retrieved from https://www.upguard.com/blog/dark-web-vs-deep-web

Sussman, B. (2018). Dark Web vs. Deep Web: What Is the Difference? Securewrold. Retrived from https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-
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The deep web and dark web are used
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The terms Dark Web and Deep Web
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Obscurity means the inability to locate
an internet resource using any major
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It prevents crawlers from indexing such
a site and eventually prevents the
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search engine crawlers from indexing
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On the other hand, the dark web refers
to the various encrypted overlay and
self-contained networks that live on top
of the internet and inaccessible unless
one has the right protocol and tools.

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Dark web sites are only in thousands.

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