Summary:
Dark web users refer to the regular web as surface web. Anything present on the dark web will not be pulled up in internet searches, thereby offering a high degree of anonymity. “Had there been some police presence on the dark web, we could have been in a better position to deal with the attack,” a senior officer said. Gathering evidence on dark web activity is comparatively difficult but not impossible as some people tend to believe.”Is there a need for amending the laws in keeping with the unique challenges posed by the dark web? (Image for representational purpose)Recently, the term ‘dark web’ has been frequently used by the police, whether in the case of the activists recently arrested by the Pune police, where the police claim they were members of the banned CPI (Maoist) and communicated through the dark web, or the Cosmos Bank fraud, where Rs 94 crore was fraudulently transferred with some assistance from the dark web..