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Yeah, the article basically talked about Tor, but Dark Web is anything that isn't indexed by search engines, including, but not limited to Tor.
by provemewrong 11y ago
Yeah, the article basically talked about Tor, but Dark Web is anything that isn't indexed by search engines, including, but not limited to Tor.
- ikeboy 11y agoThat's more accurately called deep web; dark web is what's actually hidden through anonymization protocols.
- breakall 11y agoNothing about these terms is "accurate". By that definition, Facebook is in the deep web. ...And in the dark web -- they now have a Tor-friendly Onion address!
- ikeboy 11y agoFacebook profiles that are private are in the deep web. Facebook profiles that can only be found by using Tor (which I don't believe exist) would be in the dark web.
- runn1ng 11y agoFor some strange reason, some people conflate the two terms - deep web and dark web - even when they have essentially nothing in common. Maybe that's where the "Dark Web is bigger than the regular internet" meme comes from.
- yathern 11y agoExactly. I did a presentation about this for an IT class recently. It's astounding how many 'tip of the iceberg' diagrams are out there, implying that tor is 10 times bigger than the regular internet, and filled with dark and seedy things. They somehow mix up the Dark Web and Deep Web (which are ill defined terms already) and combine their mythologies into one hilariously incorrect idea that there is a whole underground society 10 times bigger than the regular web. More hilarious is how many of these charts put 4chan or the Pirate Bay just below the surface, as if they are hard to find sites. These diagrams are incorrect every way you look at them, besides maybe a "the lower you go, I'm implying the sites are less moral".