- [Voiceover] The Internet we all know
contains more information and web sites
than any one person could visit in a lifetime.
What most people don't know
is that 96% of the Internet
lays beyond the reach
of search engines such as Google and Bing.
Known as the Deep Web,
this vast region of hidden online content
is not indexed or catalogued
by any search engines,
and is home to the most disturbing places
you can find online.
To shed some light on the deepest
and darkest depths of the Internet,
we've put together a list
of 10 Disturbing Facts About The Deep Web.
Number 10: The Deep Web is many orders of magnitude
larger than the normal Internet,
which has been termed as the Surface Web.
In fact, researchers estimate that the Deep Web
is over 500 times greater than its surface counterpart.
With 96% of the Internet's content falling
under the domain of the Deep Web.
Due to the Deep Web's massive size,
most of it remains unexplored.
Number Nine: The Deep Web is mainly accessed
through something called a Tor Browser,
which is designed to allow for anonymous web browsing.
Another advantage to the Tor browser is that
it is one of the few ways to reach the Deep Web,
as normal search engines and web browsers,
such as Google Chrome and Firefox, do not have this ability.
Number Eight: The Deep Web contains advertisements
for services and products that are not only highly illegal,
but also, downright disturbing.
The Silk Road, for instance, is a marketplace
that operates within the Deep Web
and sells all manners of drugs and other illegal substances.
The Silk Road is just the beginning,
as services that are far more unethical
also operate on the Deep Web with impunity.
Anonymous sellers can be found advertising
stolen credit cards, weapons, such as this
fully automatic AK-47, that is for sale in France,
as well as hitmen.
Hitmen operating on the Deep Web
charge for their services depending on
which target you specify,
with a normal target costing $10,0000,
while public figures cost over $100,000 to eliminate.
To this date, all of these services continue
to operate on the Deep Web with impunity.
In many ways, what we mentioned here
is just scratching the surface.
Number Seven: Dollars won't get you very far
when browsing the Deep Web.
In fact, you can't use them at all
in this area of the Internet.
Bitcoin is the dominant currency of the Deep Web,
as Deep Web users prefer its anonymous nature.
Bitcoin's creator went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto,
and hasn't been heard from since 2011.
To this day, almost nothing is known about him.
Satoshi Nakamoto is such a mystery,
that he made our list of the 10 Most Mysterious People
of all time.
Number Six: The Deep Web, unsurprisingly,
is also a very dangerous place.
Your computer can be infected with malware
while browsing this region of the Internet
quicker than the blink of an eye.
This is because users often click on links
with JavaScript enabled in their browser.
An exploit in JavaScript allows for unscrupulous people
on the Deep Web to instantly upload malware
and key loggers onto a target-user's computer,
compromising their passwords.
The risks don't end there, though.
When a security blogger was caught trying to expose
stolen credit card merchants operating in the Deep Web,
they retaliated by mailing heroin to his home
and notifying the police.
A SWAT team was dispatched to his home
and he was nearly framed for a crime he didn't commit.
Number Five: The Deep Web also operates
as a meeting ground and safe haven for terrorists.
This came to the public's attention in 2013
when U.S. Intelligence began monitoring communications
between senior Al-Qeada operatives
that were plotting on the Deep Web.
At the time, Al-Qeada operatives were in the early stages
of plotting attacks on U.S. embassies across the world.
U.S. officials reacted by closing down 22 of its embassies
in the Middle East and North Africa.
To this day, terrorists and U.S. Intelligence
continue to play a dangerous game of cat and mouse
in the darkest corners of the Deep Web.
Number Four: Not everything on the Deep Web
is completely immoral.
During the Arab Spring, in 2011, Journalists
and anti-government activists used the Deep Web
to communicate and coordinate their efforts.
Thanks to the Deep Web, for the first time in history,
these opposition groups were able to communicate
with each other.
As a result, the Arab Spring managed to topple
a long list of Middle Eastern dictators.
Number Three: The Deep Web, for the first time in history,
has allowed for communities revolving around
disturbing practices to flourish.
An example of this is the budding community of cannibals
that can be found operating on the Deep Web.
Cannibal forums, cook books, and even deranged individuals
volunteering to be consumed for their flesh,
can all be found on the Deep Web.
There have also been stories of desperate people
offering up their bodies to be consumed by cannibals
so that their families will have some money after they die.
Number Two: The hidden wiki operates as a home page
to many people who are adventuring into the Deep Web.
It operates similar to the normal Wikipedia
we all know, but it instead,
serves as a depository of links
to other major areas of the Deep Web,
such as the Darknet markets,
the archive of banned books,
as well as the various underground forums
that call the Deep Web home.
Number One: The Deep Web's deepest point
is called Marianas Web,
which is named after the Marianas Trench,
which is the deepest part of the ocean.
Not much is known about Marianas Web,
but it is known that only the most disturbing
and illegal things can be found here.
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