The Deep Web and Children Cyber Exploitation: Criminal Activities and Methods – Challenges of Investigation: Solutions

The Deep Web and Children Cyber Exploitation: Criminal Activities and Methods – Challenges of Investigation: Solutions

Sachil Kumar
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5598-2.ch035
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Abstract

The deep web has been announced by some as the last bastion of internet anonymity in an increasingly oppressive period, although others find it one of the worst sites on the internet. There are number of instances that have confirmed the misuse of deep web for conducting criminal and illegal practices in a secret way. This chapter provides a description of deep web and the different plugins used to navigate deep web pages. A summary of the different types of online child sexual exploitation that take place across the deep web is explored, as well as the complexities of investigation and response being discussed so that readers can become conscious of this form of sexual abuse.
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Structure Of The Internet

The internet is broadly classified into the two regions: The Clear Web and the Deep Web.

Clear Web

The Clear Web, also called Surface Web, Indexed Web, Visible Web, Indexable Web or Lightnet, is the region of the Internet that most of us are familiar with. This can be easily accessed from any browser and is regularly crawled and indexed by search engines including Bing, Google, and Yahoo. It can seem like a huge amount of information, but the Clear Web is just 4% of the total size of the World Wide Web (WWW).

Deep Web

The Deep Web, also called Invisible Web, Underground Web, Non-Indexable Web or Deepnet, whose contents are not indexed by search-engine and needs a specific encrypted browser, such as Tor (The Onion Router), I2P (Invisible Internet Project) and the Freenet-configured browsers or login details to access the sites. The substance is holed up behind HTML shapes. Many people don’t realize that the Deep Web comprises mostly benign sites, like those of your password-protected email account, Twitter, Snapchat, or Facebook messenger, certain parts of paid subscription services like Netflix, and sites that can be accessed only through an online form as it can only be encrypted via application program interfaces. A significant part of Deep Web also involves instant messaging and secure data and file sharing services, like Google drive, Syncplicity and Dropbox (Greenberg, 2014). Estimating the size of the Deep Web is complicated, but experts believe that around 90% of the internet usage figures arrive from the deep Web, that is calculated to be significantly larger (4000 - 5000 times) than that of the Clear Web (Finklea, 2015). Computer-scientist Michael K. Bergman has been credited with coining the term deep web in 2001 as a search-indexing term (Wright, Alex, February 22, 2009. “Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can't Grasp”).

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