The Deep Web and Marianas Web

Halos lahat ng internet na ginagamitan ng bitcoin ay bahagi na ng illegal activities galing sa Deep Web,
kung saan nag eexist ang pinaka malagim, at pinaka masamang internet sa lahat.

Ang Deep Web ay isang Internet na hindi basta basta mahahanap sa simpleng search engine lamang.
Halimbawa, Google o Yahoo, hindi ka makakapasok sa loob ng deep web kung yan ang gamit mo. Ang
Internet ngayon ay maihahalintulad sa buong surface ng karagatan.

Kapag naglagay kanang net sa karagatan panigurado makakahuli kanang ibat ibang uri ng lamang dagat
na pwedeng mapakinabangan, but there will be elaborate eco-systems of information that reside in the
deep, which will be swept right over.

Eto ay dahil hindi naatasan ang Deep Web na mag allow ng basta basta. Recent evaluations say that the
Deep Web could be 500 times bigger than the 555 million websites on the visible web.

Because it’s so huge yet so elusive, even the language used when talking about the Deep Web is cloaked
in mystery, obscured by a vocabulary of myth and fear. Most conversations about the Deep Web
inevitably contain a lot of Apocrypha, and usually being with, ‘they say that the Deep Web’ However,
who this ‘they’ actually is remains unclear. One thing they all seem to agree on is that the Deep Web
descends in levels:

Level 1: Facebook, YouTube, Google. This is where we all play freely in the sunlight.

Level 2: Academic databases, personal information, and financial records. To access this level, you need
usernames and passwords.

Level 3: Illicit drugs, child porn, stolen credit card numbers, human trafficking, weapons, exotic animals.
To reach this level you need to use Tor, a browser that operates by bouncing communications off
servers around the world to make it difficult to detect the user’s IP address.

Although a lot of the activity that Tor is used for is evil, it is also used as a safe-haven for victims of cyber
stalking, political dissidents, and can help just about anyone regain digital independence. In fact, when
Twitter was momentarily banned in Turkey in the lead up to this year’s election, Tor saw a massive spike
in activity in the region.

Level 4: Also known as the Marianas Web — named after the deepest ocean trench on Earth — this level
is speculative; no one knows whether it actually exists. Said to contain a repository of all of humanity’s
best-kept secrets, including the location of Atlantis, it is more or less the Internet’s version of the
Vatican secret archives.

Some intrepid Internet mavericks even claim that the Marianas Web is the location of a super intelligent
form of female AI that has become sentient, and overlooks the Internet like some unfathomable digital
mother nature. You can only access this level using Polymeric Falcighol Derivation, which requires
quantum computers to work. Quantum computers do not exist.
Even though the Marianas Web is a bit of a joke, the Deep Web certainly isn’t, and for me it captures all
other Internet mysteries. It is a completely unregulated store of massive amounts of information with
no real distinction between real and fake. Also, it’s filled with trolls and criminals, who thrive on
misdirection and fear.

At the end of the day, though, the Deep Web is still just a network of human-made activity: anything
mysterious that happens inside it emanates from us, and our technology. Yet, the way people talk about
it – with fear and reverence – almost feels like it’s somehow become the subconscious of the Internet,
filled with our collective terrors, where ghosts, boogeymen, gods, myths and supernatural dreams of the
past 10,000 years of civilization have been uploaded, and from where they will continue to haunt us into
the future.