how the dark web works
due to anonymity on the dark web many consider it a place where online marketplaces for drugs exchanges for stolen data and other illegal activities occur despite this there may be legitimate reasons people choose to use the dark web including political dissidents and those who want to keep certain information private the dark web can provide legal authorities with the additional tools they need to apprehend the perpetrators of unethical activities 12the dark web is a secret network and a series of websites hidden from the general public and unaccessible through traditional search engines like google 12traditional search engines return results from indexes of links to websites ranked based on keywords and relevancy the dark web uses information unavailable on other search engines such as content from individual accounts email social media banking personal and professional databases and medical and legal documents 3the tor network or the onion routing project is a secure encrypted protocol that can ensure privacy for data and communications on the web the tor technology was initially developed and solely used by the u s navy to protect sensitive government communications 