Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

From securityaffairs.co

Which is the difference between the Deep Web and Dark Web? Considerations about past, present, and future of the Dark Web.

These are intense days for the Dark Web. Operations conducted by law enforcement agencies lad to the arrests of many individuals and the closure of the most popular Black Marketplaces, many of which remained alive over the years.

Operators behind the principal black markets made a lot of money, let’s think of managers of the Wall Street Market and Valhalla recently seized by feds. These are historic points of aggregations where it was possible to buy drugs, weapons, and any kind of hacking tools.

The icing on the cake was a US research that decreed how the size of the Dark Web was significantly lower than previously thought. This isn’t a novelty for the experts that are studying dark web and its evolution.

Unfortunately there is too much confusion between the term deep web and dark web, many videos on YouTube channels provide wrong information. Misinterpretation, superficiality, some times simple profits, these are the root cause of the confusion. This misinformation is extremely dangerous for kids, first consumers of videos published on the principal social media platform. Some videos show that is very simple to buy drugs securely or explain how to hack a website. Describing these phenomena, some journalists have been labeled “as experts on the dark web”.

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