The Invisible Web: by Jake Sheehan Nick Saltzman
The Invisible Web: by Jake Sheehan Nick Saltzman
The Invisible Web: by Jake Sheehan Nick Saltzman
By Jake Sheehan
Nick Saltzman
Search Engines
Programs that search documents for
specified keywords or phrases and returns a
list of documents where the keywords were
found
Spider Programs
Starts by searching heavily used servers and
the most popular web pages
Visits all the links found in the webpages it
reads and sends them to the search engines
indexer in a process called web crawling,
which continues automatically
To be discovered, a webpage must be static
and linked to other pages
All pages that are indexed by a search
engines spider programs are known as the
visible web
Advantages Of Invisible
Web Content
Specialized content focus large amounts of
information focused on an exact subject
Contains information that might not be
available on the visible web
Allows a user to find a precise answer to a
specific question
Allows a user to find webpages from a specific
date or time
The first step is to download, install, and run the Tor Bundle. This will bring up
your new anonymous browser (through Firefox) in order to get started.
The next step is to access the Hidden Wiki, which most people consider the home page
of the Deep Web. Here you can begin your journey and discover many different types of
sites and networks, ranging from tame to very illegal. There are black market type
sites, hacking information sites, huge file databases, political advocacy sites, and even
One of the other main pages of the Deep Web is TorDir. TorDir is a site that uses a
special crawler for the Deep Web, so that it may act similar to Google in that it
categorizes web sites, and allows you to view many different and obscure .onion sites
that fall into each category.
Through the Hidden Wiki you can find pages like this, which are semi-organized lists of
different .onion sites. Many different sites are listed and separated based on function,
such as buying/selling/trading, communication, hacking, or intel exchange.
This is an example of one of the many online black markets. This one did not
require a paid membership. There are many different ways to spend bit coins,
such as on apparel, money transfers, drugs, books, and even digital goods.
This is an example of someones own personal page, with content picked out
due to its controversial nature. Here you can find anything from banned
readings, to trefelling. There is content on making ones own explosives, and
many different military type documents and guidebooks.
There is a huge portion of the Deep Web that is not malicious at all. This is a
huge database of banned, black listed, and forbidden books which you can
read and download. Books have been burned in the past and banned for their
controversial subject matter, and this is a way for history to be preserved.