What is the Dark Web
- The installation of Fiber Optic cable to be used for Internet traffic that was never activated due to factors including lack of funding and owning entity financial bankruptcy.
- Internet resources that cannot be searched and indexed by Internet search engines such as Google due to factors including the requirement of authentication credentials, private network routing, or firewalls blocking indexing. More correctly this condition should be referred to as "Deep Web" rather than Dark Web.
- Specifically restricted areas of the Internet sometimes used for illegal activity, such activity being on the spectrum from copyright infringement through to intellectual property distribution, personal identify information and other more serious criminal activity. Again, these are sites on the public Internet that cannot be searched and indexed by search engines such as Google due to blocking technology.
What the Dark Web Isn't
- The Dark Web is not one specific logical thing. It is more of a marketing term used by non-technical people in an attempt to sell and market privacy services or identity theft services.
- The Dark Web is not a separate Internet. It is not a separate World Wide Web.
- The Dark Web is not entirely and specifically all illegal activity. There is legitimate and legal information on the so called dark web that is simply not indexed by the major search engines for one or more reasons.