{"id":8032,"date":"2025-07-02T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:35:27","slug":"dark-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dark-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Darknet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Darknet Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) recently said its Kochi zonal unit busted \u201cIndia\u2019s most prolific darknet drug syndicate\u201d operating under the name \u201cKetamelon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Darknet<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darknet refers to a <\/span><b>segment of the internet <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is <\/span><b>accessible only through advanced protocols<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to provide<\/span><b> user anonymity and security.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the surface web, which can be easily accessed using standard search engines and web browsers, <\/span><b>darknet content is not indexed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>requires specialized tools, such as privacy-focused browsers like Tor, to access.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tor <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(The Onion Router) is <\/span><b>free and open-source <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">software for enabling anonymous communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tor <\/span><b>utilizes a method known as onion routin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g, <\/span><b>which anonymizes users <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by routing their connections through multiple volunteer-operated servers, making it <\/span><b>difficult to trace their actual IP <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">addresses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concept of the<\/span><b> darknet is closely related to the dark web,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but the terms are <\/span><b>not entirely interchangeable.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>dark web is the content found on darknet networks.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDarknet\u201d and \u201cdark web\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are also<\/span><b> often incorrectly used interchangeably with \u201cdeep web.\u201d<\/b>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The deep web encompasses everything not indexed by conventional search engines <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but <\/span><b>may still be accessed through regular web browsers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">if the URL is known.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>darknet <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">represents a <\/span><b>deeper layer of the web<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hosting <\/span><b>content that is intentionally hidden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>only reachable by a select group of users<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Darknet also includes friend-to-friend (F2F) networks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that allow secure, private communications among known individuals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">While <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">darknet <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">technologies can provide a <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">means for users to bypass censorship and maintain privacy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in their online activities, they are <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">also associated with illegal activities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as the trade of illicit goods and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/thiruvananthapuram\/ketamelon-busted-ncb-says-indias-biggest-darknet-vendor-of-drugs-arrested-in-kerala-10100651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darknet refers to a segment of the internet that is accessible only through advanced protocols designed to provide user anonymity and 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