TOR And The Deep Web: The Battle Between Government Intrusion And Privacy.

The
rabbit hole that is the Internet goes much deeper than most people
know. In fact, the World Wide Web as we know it represents just 4% of
networked web pages — the remaining 96% of pages make up what many refer
to as the “Invisible Internet,” “Invisible Web” or “Deep Web.” This
massive subsection of the Internet is 500 times bigger than the visible
Web and is not indexed by search engines like Google. It's the digital
equivalent of a thriving city that's been domed over and cordoned
off. These sites are locked down so tightly that you need a special
browser to access them. It's called the Tor browser, and it offers you
an entirely new way of connecting to the Internet. Conventional web
browsers like Chrome and Firefox make no effort to conceal your location
or identity, Tor is built upon the idea of preserving anonymity as
aggressively as possible. For example, Where Google helps you find the
needle, Tor lets you explore the haystack. There is lots of promise in
Tor's value – people use it to protect their communications, to research
sensitive topics, and to access information they might otherwise not
have access to (if a country is behind a firewall, for example). By
guaranteeing such a high level of anonymity, Tor lends itself well to
information freedom activists and those who simply want to take their
Internet safety to the extreme.If you're not already familiar, the free
method of searching the Internet that’s so anonymous and secure the
National Security Agency wants to destroy it. TOR or the Onion Router,
has become a serious pain the the ass of the government surveillance
apparatus as documents obtained by The Guardian indicate that both the NSA and its British partner GCHQ have been unable to crack it.