Editing Deep web (section)

==Terminology==

The first conflation of the terms "deep web" and "[[dark web]]" happened during 2009 when deep web search terminology was discussed together with illegal activities occurring on the [[Freenet]] and [[darknet]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beckett |first1=Andy |title=The dark side of the internet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/26/dark-side-internet-freenet |date=November 26, 2009 |access-date=August 9, 2015}}</ref> Those criminal activities include the commerce of personal [[Password|passwords]], [[Identity document forgery|false identity documents]], [[Drug|drugs]], [[firearms]], and [[child pornography]].<ref>{{cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEwmYk15ZcU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211113/GEwmYk15ZcU |archive-date=November 13, 2021 |url-status=live |author=D. Day |title=Easiest Catch: Don't Be Another Fish in the Dark Net |publisher=[[TEDx Talks]] |location=Wake Forest University}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Since then, after their use in the media's reporting on the black-market website [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]], media outlets have generally used "deep web" [[Skunked term|synonymously]] with the [[dark web]] or [[darknet]], a comparison some reject as inaccurate<ref name="confusion">{{cite web |url=http://www.brightplanet.com/2014/03/clearing-confusion-deep-web-vs-dark-web/ |title=Clearing Up Confusion – Deep Web vs. Dark Web |work=BrightPlanet |date=March 27, 2014}}</ref> and consequently has become an ongoing source of confusion.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solomon |first1=Jane |title=The Deep Web vs. The Dark Web |url=http://blog.dictionary.com/dark-web/ |date=May 6, 2015 |access-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref> ''[[Wired (website)|Wired]]'' reporters [[Kim Zetter]]<ref>{{cite news |author=NPR Staff |title=Going Dark: The Internet Behind The Internet |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/05/25/315821415/going-dark-the-internet-behind-the-internet |access-date=May 29, 2015 |date=May 25, 2014}}</ref> and [[Andy Greenberg]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenberg |first1=Andy |title=Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Dark Web? |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/11/hacker-lexicon-whats-dark-web/ |date=November 19, 2014 |access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref> recommend the terms be used in distinct fashions. While the deep web is a reference to any site that cannot be accessed by a traditional search engine, the dark web is a portion of the deep web that has been hidden intentionally and is inaccessible by standard browsers and methods.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security |date=January 20, 2014 |url=https://www.ourinternet.org/sites/default/files/publications/GCIG_Paper_No6.pdf |access-date=January 15, 2017 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116173141/https://www.ourinternet.org/sites/default/files/publications/GCIG_Paper_No6.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lam |first1=Kwok-Yan |last2=Chi |first2=Chi-Hung |last3=Qing |first3=Sihan |title=Information and Communications Security: 18th International Conference, ICICS 2016, Singapore, Singapore, November 29 – December 2, 2016, Proceedings |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319500119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uraVDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 |language=en |date=November 23, 2016 |access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Deep Web vs. The Dark Web |url=http://blog.dictionary.com/dark-web/ |publisher=Dictionary Blog |date=May 6, 2015 |access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Akhgar |first1=Babak |last2=Bayerl |first2=P. Saskia |last3=Sampson |first3=Fraser |title=Open Source Intelligence Investigation: From Strategy to Implementation |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319476711 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39zTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 |language=en |date=January 1, 2017 |access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=What is the dark web and who uses it? |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/what-is-the-dark-web-and-who-uses-it/article26026082/ |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref>{{excessive citations inline|date=June 2024}}