Though the internet is a fairly constant staple of our daily lives, there is very little public understanding and even less legal understanding of the mysterious “dark web.” At ALM CyberSecure, panelists S. Keith Moulsdale, partner at Whiteford Taylor Preston, Kevin Lancaster, CEO of dark web threat monitoring platform ID Agent, and Ariel Wolf, associate at Venable, discussed some of the growing concerns about the dark web by answering three questions many legal practitioners may have:
What is the “dark web”?
Lancaster explained that the “dark web” is a part of the deep internet that uses a different protocol and is not indexed by traditional search engines, which has the effect of allowing users to communicate anonymously. Because of this level of anonymous communication, Moulsdale pointed out that users can illegally buy and sell black market items that range from prescription pills and weapons to user account credentials, all the way to unlawful legal advice.
