Week 5: The Deep Net

            So, we talked about the dangers of the Internet in class today. There is something that exists called the Deep Net, which is pretty much anything and everything that is illegal or twisted on a secret side of the Internet. If you find it, you have access to things such as hackers, hit men, spies, black market goods, theft, and anything else that an undesirable would want to find. You would think that the world’s governments would have already been able to take apart the Deep Net, but it is too well organized to be taken down as easily as one would shut down a website. The biggest defense it has is that it runs through software such as TOR, which connects the Deep Net users through encrypted computer networks that make the encryption more and more complicated each time another computer is used to hide the original user’s identity. Essentially, there is no way to track the Deep Net and its users back to their original sources. Impressive but concerning. This is one of those things that have a huge potential to cause large amounts of harm to a wide variety of people. Now, don’t go looking around to find the Deep Net, because it is a really dark side of our reality. It’s straight up bad. However, the concept behind the Depp Net is fascinating and I respect the amount of effort that has been put in to create and sustain a network so large and mysterious.