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26. Dark Web and Tor

Sanjib Sinha

(1)Howrah, West Bengal, India

In the mean time we will have a very quick look at the dark web or hidden web. I don’t know whether or not you have heard about it before.

The rumor is the “dark web” or “deep web ” consists of a major portion of the Internet. It is something like “dark matter” that consists of 97 or 98 percent of the mass of the universe. It is still unknown what it is actually, except for a few things.

People say the dark web is full of information that we usually don’t get normally. And you can’t access the dark web through your normal browser. You need a special kind of browser to enter into that ...

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