article_snippet.sent: The dark net is a subsection of the deep web - the part of the internet that does not show up in searches or on social media.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the information on the web is far down on dynamically generated sites, unable to be found or seen by traditional search engines, which are rather like dragging a net across the surface of the sea, missing much of the information in the depths.
article_snippet.sent: The dark net is used as a way of sharing information and trading goods, but the anonymous and encrypted nature of The dark net has attracted large amounts of illegal activity.
article_snippet.sent: The Silk Road website and The dark net successor that were recently shut down was used to sell drugs in exchange for bitcoins, the electronic currency.
article_snippet.sent: Other dark net sites allow users to share pornographic photographs, hacked information, credit card numbers and other illegal goods.
article_snippet.sent: The Silk Road used an underground computer network known as the The Onion Router (TOR), which is a matrix of encrypted websites and servers that disguise the identity of users.
article_snippet.sent: The Silk Road uses numerous layers of security and encryption, hiding the IP address and the activity of the user.
article_snippet.sent: Just 0.26 per cent of the daily internet traffic from the UK accesses this hidden part of the internet.
article_snippet.sent: The Random Darknet Shopper project used Bitcoin to randomly purchase items that were offered for sail in the darknet.