Cigar Advisor Takes a Look at the Dark Side of the Internet
Easton, PA (PRWEB) July 25, 2013 -- The all-new Cigar Advisor is an online cigar magazine that brings a fresh, irreverent, and down-to-earth perspective on all things cigars to thousands of smokers. In addition to educational cigar content and behind-the-scenes cigar industry articles from some of the business’s top names, Cigar Advisor delivers an array of content about a variety of topics of interest to people who enjoy the cigar lifestyle. The magazine also features cigar ratings and reviews submitted by real smokers. Cigar Advisor has just published an exposé on the Deep Web in their July 2013 issue.
Technology writer and Cigar Advisor contributor Scott Alexander has written “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” an overview of the space online that is considered the “Deep Web.” Noting that the Internet has been part of our daily lives for more than a decade, and that the online world has become the de facto place to shop, bank and conduct business, Scott says, “the bad neighborhoods that have always existed are still there. We’re talking about the parts of Internet Town that politicians, preachers and antivirus evangelists are always warning us away from. To hear them tell it, the streets on the seedy end of Internet town are filled with child molesters, pornographers, drug fiends and copyright pirates. Thing is, the rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than that.”
Scott notes that to understand this part of the Internet, we must first define what it isn’t – and there are a variety of names used. Alexander defines the “dark Internet” as the unreachable areas of the Internet - places that have no links in or out, either by design or through disrepair. The “deep web,” according to Scott, refers to the areas the crawlers of most major search engines can’t reach. If a crawler can’t reach a site (or can’t travel through it easily), it doesn’t show up in search results, making it quasi-invisible. “With most deep web sites you aren’t missing much,” he says. “These web sites include databases, interactive applications, sites that are password-protected, sites that use dynamically built pages, or sites that require proof of humanity (e.g. the increasingly annoying Captcha system). Individual sites can also ask not to be crawled by embedding certain code in their directories.”
Instead, Scott notes, the part of the Internet - where dangerous people hang out, where hard drugs are dealt openly and “if you really want to (and you have the cash) you can find someone to kill your wife, no questions asked” – has no name. He calls it the Nether Realm. “This is by no means an official term,” Scott writes, “because there is no official term.”
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John Pullo, Cigar Advisor Magazine, http://www.cigaradvisor.com, 610-559-7000 159, [email protected]
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