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'Census report' of the unindexed parts of the Internet unearths everything from Bitcoin-laundering services to assassins for hire.

The dark web operates behind an understanding of anonymity. Users aren’t supposed to be able to access dark web websites unless their traffic is anonymized using services like Tor. The IP addresses of dark web services are also hidden so that their hosts are not able to tracked — or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work.

For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.

The deep Web is the vast section of the Internet that isn’t accessible via search engines like Google. To get to the deep Web, you have to use specific software like TOR—The Onion Router—which works to anonymize traffic between two points on the “unindexed Internet.”

The deep and dark web may have a reputation for the illegal and illicit, but it can be a lifeline to many in oppressive and dangerous regimes.