The Anonymity of the Dark Web: A Survey #04

This is my personal note about the paper introduction. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359421382_The_Anonymity_of_the_Dark_Web_A_Survey

This note is writing about overview of section 2 (WORKING ON THE DARK WEB) on this paper.

Working on the dark web

Technology in the dark web

• Web
  • Surface Web
    • Almost people believes this is the web.
  • Deep Web
    • No indexed web. (Couldn't search by google)
  • Dark Web
    • No indexed
    • Cannot access by standard web browser
• The Anonymity technique
  • Proxy
  • Virtual Private Network
  • Domain Name System Based bypassing
  • Onion Routing
• Accessing the the dark web
  • Tor: Onion Routing
  • I2P: Garlic Routing
  • Freenet: Decentralized distributed data system

Crimes in the dark web

• Human trafficking and sex trafficking
• Child pornography
• Terrorism and arms trafficking
  • Selling and buying illegal weapons but the volume of arms trafficking is smaller than the other crimes.
• Drag trafficking
  • There is many illegal drugs selling sites.
• Information leakage
  • Sell or trade of stolen data.
• Malware / Ransomware
  • Deep web is best place for malware, for example hide the location of C&C servers.
• Bitcoin and Money laundry
  • Nowadays, bitcoin is common and widely accepted even for illegal purchasing.