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stolen credit cards hacked email accounts guns drugs assassins if you're going to dive into the dark web then you'd better be ready to see some nasty things down below the underbelly of the Internet is a haven for criminals but it's actually very easy for anyone to access so how does it work and what exactly is down there let's shed some light on the dark web before we visit the murky depths let's explore the web you know and for that we've come to the Sydney aquarium because the Internet is kind of like the ocean everything that can be caught on a search engine like Google is part of the surface web out in the open easily accessible to your standard web browser but there's a vast amount of the internet that's actually out of reach from search engines and this is known as the Deep Web the sites on the Deep Web are ones that you don't find on the average Google search things that you need a special login or software to access the bigger fish swimming down here are things like your email inbox your internet banking medical records even really mundane things like academic research on a university Network but go a little deeper into the Deep Web and you will find the dark web you can't even get here with Chrome or Firefox you'll need a special browser to even see the content on the dark web the most popular browser is tor it's a free download and it's designed to shield the identity of its users the sites lurking down here don't even end in com they end in dot onion and they can only be accessed through special browsers liked all be warned if you go exploring down here you'd better watch where you step it's not illegal to use tor but start clicking around and you will quickly find marketplaces like the now shuttered Silk Road that sell really illegal stuff and some of it can be pretty darn disturbing the payment of choice crypto currencies like Bitcoin which are incredibly difficult to track while most of the dark web is used by criminals some people argue that it can be really good for those trying to avoid surveillance from governments and even oppressive regimes in fact plenty of people use browsers like tor just to stay anonymous on the regular web so you might think of the Internet as just the surface web but a lot of what you do online is actually in the Deep Web and not everyone down in the dark web is a shark but for the most part the dark web is a haven for the worst of the worst so be careful when you explore down below there are be monsters