What Is The Deep Web? | Mashable Explains

What is the Deep Web exactly, and what seedy, nefarious activity happens there? Well, the answer might surprise you (hint: that private photo album dedicated to your cat, that's a part of the Deep Web).

Some great sources used while researching the Deep Web:

Characteristics of the Deep Web:
http://library.laguardia.edu/i....nvisibleweb/characte

Less than 10% of the internet is indexed by search engines:
http://netforbeginners.about.c....om/cs/secondaryweb1/

Diagram of Deep Web:
http://netforbeginners.about.c....om/library/diagrams/

Introduction to the Darknet [VIDEO]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91AYoH5dTA

Introduction to Tor [VIDEO]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idh0aysfzRM

Great Introduction to Search Engine Crawling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs

Image Credits:

Tip of the Iceburg:
http://blog.indieflix.com/wp-c....ontent/uploads/2013/

Silk Road Boss Orders Assasinations:
http://www.businessinsider.com..../silk-road-boss-orde

Silk Road Screencap:
http://www.pcworld.com/article..../2061800/silk-road-o

NSA comic:
http://animalnewyork.com/2013/....the-nsa-has-always-b

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