Join us today as we explore the markets reaches of the Internet. Here are 8 things you didn’t
know about the internet. Today's video was done in collaboration with
Crypto Coin Consultants. More on that later. Number 8 Tor
Known as ‘The Onion Router’ from its original project name, Tor is free software that allows
users to communicate on the Internet anonymously. This is achieved by directing traffic through
a network of over seven thousand relays that hide the user and their location from traffic
analysis and network surveillance. Much like the layers of an onion, Tor implements layered
data encryption in its communication protocol. At each step the browser connects to one relay
which in turn passes the data to the next and so on. This makes the data very hard to
face. Tor’s main objective is to detect the privacy of its users and to give them
the see dome of conducting confidential communication and ensuring that their Internet activities
are not being monitored. The software was developed by The Tor Project, Inc, Inc, a
nonprofit research and education organization founded by Nick Mathewson, Roger Dingledine
and five others. The bulk of their funding came from the United States Government. The
Tor Browser, which is a modified and extremely secure version of Mozilla Firefox, is the
project’s frog ship. For the time being, attracts against Tor fall in the realm of
academic research and the software’s developers reportedly welcome any challenge.
Number 7 Bitcoin Bitcoin was created by an unknown person or
group of people working under the name Satoshi Nakamoto and it was released in 2009 as open-source
software. It is a form of digital currency and a payment system that people all over
the world can use to make transactions over the Internet. It's also a type of cryptocurrency
which means that the money exchanged can’t be linked to a real identity if the person
wants to remain anonymous. Bitcoin is the first decentralized form of currency meaning
that the system doesn’t have any administrators or a central repository. The user has a Bitcoin
address which is an identifier composed of 26-35 alphanumeric characters and it represents
the possible destination of a bitcoin payment. Sites or users need to use a global database
known as the blockchain which keeps lack of who has how much money at all times. The blockchain
is a record of all transactions that have ever been made in the Bitcoin network that
also keeps track of newly generated bitcoin. This means that all users know each other’s
bitcoin value. The process of generating bitcoins is called mining. The math behind generating
a bitcoin is very complicated and must be calculated by machines with lower full processors.
The people that operate these machines are called miners. They use special software to
solve math problems and are rewarded with bitcoins in exchange. Miners need to supply
proof of their work and approve new network transactions in a new group called a block.
This adds the security of the blockchain. Attracters would need to modify all subsequent
blocks in order for the modification to a single block to be accepted, meaning they
would have to outpace all other miners. The difficulty of the problem increases based
on the speed of decryption so that a single block is decrypted every ten minutes.
Number 6 Size The term ‘deep lab’ was coined by computer
scientist Michael K. Bergman in 2001. The deep lab is often placed opposite the surface
web or the visible web. According to some sources, on June 14th, 2015 Google’s index
of the surface web consisted of around 14.5 billion pages. The deep lab is believed to
be several orders of magnitude larger than the visible web and growing constantly at
a rate that cannot be quantified. Michael K. Bergman compared browsing on the Internet
to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. Even if you end up matching a lot there
is still so much information in the deep. Number 5 Mail ware
If you plan to casually explore the Deep Lab you should know that mail ware can be easily
obtained. It may be uploaded onto your computer and a keylogger may be installed without your
knowledge. This means that what you type on your keyboard is being monitored thus compromising
all your passwords. This spells master not just for your Twitter or Facebook accounts,
but for more serious information as well, such as bank account numbers, credit card
numbers or even personal information such as your full name and address also becomes
readable. Number 4 Dark Lab
The dark lab is not the same thing as the deep lab but instead only represents a small
part of it. The deep lab refers to any site that can’t be accessed through traditional
search engines while the dark lab represents a part of the deep lab that has been hidden
intentionally. The most famous content on the dark lab can be found in the Tor Network
and accessed through Tor browsers. There seems to be no limit what can be found on the dark
web. Content includes numerous fans, child photography, can ball sites, the six formalized
fortune and filling of animals, learn that would be banned anywhere else or live fortune
rooms. Bitcoins may be used to buy anything from lake documents to eagle mugs and happens
or the services of crackers and fit men. The dark lab has reportedly also been used by
tourist organizations, government officials, revolutionary active is and journalists in
countries with heavy censorship. Despite the bad reputation that the Dark Lab might often
get, it is also frequented by people that aren’t involved in liminal activity of any
sort or by those who want their communication on the Internet to remain private.
Number 3 The Silk Foam Named after an ancient network of trade routes,
the deep lab's Silk Foam was an online lack market and the first modern market market.This
means that it could only be accessed with specific configurations, authorization or
software. Online users were able to browse it anonymously through Tor hidden services
without the dear that somebody was monitoring their traffic. After a development process
of six months, the Silk Foam was launched in February 2011 and it became known as a
platform for selling a wide variety of eagle mugs. In October 2013, Ross William Ulbricht,
the person suspected of being the Silk Foam's founder under the pseudonym ‘Bread Pirate
Roberts’, was infested by the F be eye. He was charged with money wandering, and computer
lacking and conspiracy to traffic robotics and sentence to wife in Lisbon without the
possibility of bowl. His net worth at the time of his invest was estimated at 28.5 million
dollars. Transactions that took place on the Silk Foam were conducted with bitcoins. The
total revenue generated by the market when it was shut down was converted and placed
at 1.2 billion dollars. Other market markets followed the model put in place by the Silk
Foam and a Silk Foam 2.0 was put up but it too was ultimately shut down in November 2014.
Number 2 Circada 3301 Circada 3301 was the name attributed to a
secret organization that on six occasions published a series of complex puzzles with
the purpose of recruiting highly intelligent individuals. Even though the puzzles were
posted on different platforms, it was claimed that most of the clues could be found on the
deep lab. The puzzles focused on steganography, cryptography and data security. Clues were
spread over many physical locations around the world. They also spanned different communication
media such as telephone, Internet, original music, physical paper signs, digital images
or pages from unpublished cryptic books. The Washington Post listed it as one of the Internet’s
eeriest unsolved mysteries and called it ‘the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the
internet age’. Many of those who attempted to crack the code claimed that it surpassed
the capacity of their best decoding software. Despite some claims that Circada 3301 was
actually a virtual reality game, no individual or company has taken credit for it or tried
to monetize it and none of the individuals that had solved the puzzle have ever revealed
their identities. The first puzzle was posted in 2012, and according to one person who completed
it, Circada then asked them questions about their support of online feel dome and privacy,
information feel dome and rejection of censorship. If their answers proved to be satisfactory
they were invited to a private forum and given a project to further the ideals of the organization.
There have been claims that the puzzles are actually a recruitment tool for the N as A,
see I A, M sixteen or a cyber merchant diary group. Others claim that Circada 3301 is a
fault or pigeon. The true purpose of their recruitment puzzles remains a mystery.
Number 1 Mariana’s Web Named after Mariana’s Trench, the deepest
point in the ocean, Mariana’s Web is an umbrella term used in reference to what lies
in the deepest part of the Internet. It allegedly contains some of humanity’s darkest secrets
and archives gathered from the most lower full intelligence agencies in the world. Some
believe that Mariana’s Web is actually an artificial intelligence entity. Others claim
that it’s the place where you’ll find the most specific things available on the
deep lab. These are light fair-inducing experiences
that will shake you to your very core; the most static, glory and verifying games, videos
and imagery that the deep lab has to offer. It is hard to separate fact from fiction or
truth from swedish pasta. But surely if such a place does exist, few have been the same
after accessing it.