Depths of the Web: Between Curiosity and Darkness.

josevas217 (79)modin Project HOPE • last year

Greetings Project Hope friends, happy Sunday to all. I wish you all a great week ahead, and may you move forward with your plans.

I recently came across an interesting story that has to do with a 29 year old man who became a multimillionaire with a page on The Deep Wep. In particular I know little about it, and I decided to read a little about it and watch some videos to get an idea of what exactly it is about.

In general what is said about this is that it is a dangerous site, where the bad, the dark, the illegal abounds, and this is what made the creator of a web page a millionaire, which lent itself as a market where he charged commissions for the sale of drugs, weapons, assassinations, among other things not good at all.

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It strikes me that in reality what I investigated is that it is a website like any other, which has access to information to which the servers commonly used do not connect you, but it is valuable information, however, it is also used for criminal acts, and this is where the problem lies. Depraved people such as pedophiles often sell their videos through this way, because they get a high degree of confidentiality, and it is largely this type of acts that give this site a bad reputation.

You can also get sicariato services, viddeos of torture and all the aberrations that you can imagine. this in general is what stands out from this site, and is what I knew. I discovered that they use identity masking servers, such as Tor that keep your identity and location hidden, they do not expose your PC's IP. i.e. you get to have Anonymity on the web.

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And the other issue that does not benefit cryptocurrencies, is that they are the ones that are mainly used as a means of payment for the services and products that this website offers, because of the same ability to maintain a certain degree of anonymity, or using some asset mixers that make it almost impossible to trace the site to which the funds are then directed.

I think that maintaining anonymity and taking care of our data is becoming more and more necessary, and for this the Deep Web can work perfectly, because you can make reports through pages created for this purpose, of things that happen in countries under authoritarian rule, for example, but unfortunately there will always be unscrupulous people who will use it to create a good thing as a shield for committing illegal acts.

Did you know anything about it? all this is new to me, to tell you the truth, I found it interesting to learn a little more about this part of the internet.