Dark Web

Written by Asst. Prof. Dr. Yousef Abu Baker El-Ebiary 

(Dean, Student Affairs / Lecturer, Faculty of Computer and IT )

“Dark Web” 

Internet is the main engine and the backbone technology in the current era, in all the devices that we use need to Internet connection, the most of the features provided with high performance only through it, starting from personal assistance such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft Cortana, through the applications of social networking such as Facebook and WhatsApp, ending with wearable technology devices such as smart watches and Google glass or carrying  devices such as GPS and mobile phones or transport features such as self-driving cars.

Exceeds the number of Internet websites to 2015 barrier billion website, an average of almost 7 people per website. Also the actual figures confirm that we are using less than 50% of these sites, there are more than 500 million site do not use the sufficiently.

All these figures do not constitute a real, but only 5% of the full size of the Internet, which means that Google’s data centers, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and all mobile applications, in addition to the billion other sites around the world constitute a very small part of the total actual Internet.

That are appears to us when we search in Google, browse Facebook or other sites known as Indexed content and this is called Surface Web.This means that there is 95% of Internet content do not know anything about it and cannot be reached by traditional methods, using any conventional browser such as Google Chrome or Firefox, this content is known as the Deep Web or non-indexed content.

Deep Web consists of a set of databases that contain academic, medical, security or government documents, those databases cannot be indexed by search engines, therefore the user must have authorization to view or access that content.Inside the Deep Web there is a part known as Dark Web that has been obfuscated with a view to prevent access to it by accident or without specific purposes.

In the sense that the Internet can be divided into three main sections, surface part that we’re using now, deep part which cannot be reached by conventional methods, in addition to a dark part inside the deep part.

In a study featured on Wikipedia in the month of January 2014, to 15.4% of the dark Web content regard to the trade of weapons and other types of illicit trading 0.9% of e-stores in this dark world, in addition to the 6.2% for exchanging and swap virtual electronic currency-bit Coin.

/Malaysia, 20 January 2016/