
He compares it to playing the game “telephone” when you were younger. Tor is a translation layer for mainstream browsers to “talk” to the Dark Web, explains Mike Brady, systems administrator at Greenview Data. onion domain extension.) Tor knows how to route to these, while browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox don’t. com domain extensions, but something else (like a. “Tor is a web browser that allows you to browse the Dark Web,” Espinosa says. “It's important to note that the Dark Web is not a single entity, but many ‘Dark Webs’ that are each generally independent of one another.” Tor is simply the largest of these entities, according to Vogt. “It's technically anything that requires more than just a web browser to access,” says Sean Vogt, director of operations at Greenview Data. He adds that this “cyber-warfare arms bazar” allows users to purchase the latest malware, hire hackers to break into virtually anything and even deal with the Russian Mob. Drugs, weapons and human trafficking are all traded on the Dark Web. “The Dark Web is that part of Deep Web that really doesn’t want to be found,” Espinosa says. Examples of these are government or educational websites which have their own internal search capabilities to look for their specific data. The Deep Web is anything on the internet that cannot be indexed and searched directly by a public search engine. "The Dark Web is that part of the Deep Web that really doesn't want to be found."Įspinosa explains the Surface Web is any website or page that can be indexed and easily searched by search engines like Google.
