There’s a lot more to the web than the cat-video-laden sites we normally see. In fact, according to most sources, the web that we can typically get to via our browser of choice represents only a small fraction of what’s out there.
This deep web is an ocean of content that is not visible to search engines and cannot be easily stumbled over – existing as it does behind locked forms, encrypted connections, and hidden systems. Yet, even within the deep web there are darker corners, where the information isn’t just difficult to find, but actively hidden, and often for good reason.
