Deep Web is the English term used to refer to regions of the Internet not found in traditional search engines and web browsers. Also known as Invisible Web or Hidden Web, this network just goes unnoticed by size: it is estimated to be 400 to 500 times larger than the Surface Web (our well-known World Wide Web).
How it works?
To understand how Deep Web works, one must first understand how the traditional Internet works: Web sites are found through link systems and search engines, based on search techniques and information archiving.
In other words, the site you want to find has allowed searchers like Google or Bing to register your address (also called a domain) on the network so that you could find it in the search.
At Deep Web, sites refuse to provide this kind of information. To find them, you then need to do direct searches to find non-linkable databases. In layman's terms, it means that the search goes out of the search engine and is made directly on the site itself. That is, you need to know WHERE to look.
What are they doing on Deep Web?
This ease of transiting and hiding information attracts many people with interests that are not always lawful. In October 2013, for example, FBI investigators turned off the Silk Road (Silk Road, an allusion to the trade route linking China to the Mediterranean Sea), a well-known online black market where users could buy weapons, drugs and until ordering murders.
What is Deep Web
Of course, not everything that transits through this "deep internet" is illegal. Personal data such as bank transactions, Whatsapp conversations, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts (instant messaging in general) or photo albums and discussion groups (as long as private), and even file types also enter the account. In short, everything that is hidden from search engines.
Many people enter the Deep Web to look for e-books, scientists use to research cases for some study, university students use to delve into some material, and so on. The "dark side of the internet", as it is called, becomes, in fact, black, depending on the intent of the one who is accessing.
It is worth mentioning here that everyone can access Deep Web easily, but not everyone who can access the hidden network. For the best intentions you may have, redirectors for unwanted links will want to direct you to the darkest paths, and this can be very dangerous if you do not know what to do if it happens.
To facilitate the understanding of these concepts, the American site Mashable has produced a 2-minute video explaining a general notion of this "hidden internet." See below:
Attending school in Suzano
The massacre that occurred last Wednesday in Suzano, Sao Paulo, has direct links to the illicit use of Deep Web. Those responsible for the attack on the school, Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, 17, and Luiz Henrique de Castro , of 25, would have shared information related to the massacre in the Dogolochan forum and would have been aided by members of the forum on how to obtain firearms and tips on how to commit murder.
According to the investigation, the Dogolochan forum, set up in 2013, was attended by the killers a little over a year ago, and they discussed a number of issues that mainly hurt human rights, such as racism, misogyny and homophobia.
The same forum is linked to the Realengo Massacre (RJ), when, in April 2011, Wellington Menezes killed 11 children in a school in Realengo, and then committed suicide.
At the time, after the massacre, the killer was treated as a hero by the Dogolochan forum attendees, and the same is happening with the duo responsible for the attack in Suzano (SP). Many congratulate the act, and others express a desire to do something similar.
Message to the curious
Deep Web is a place rich with information of all kinds - even the most illicit. It is worth remembering that, despite the innocence of your curiosity to one day want to enter the Deep Web, know that it is a place where you can find any type of content, including those that are not correct according to human rights.
Stay tuned on the forums and the sites you visit, incidentally, no one wants the Federal Police, or the FBI, knocking on your door the next day.
Source: Mashable