IPA IP 2024 Question 87
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問87, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
What is the general term for the content on the Internet that is not found by ordinary search engines and, because it is highly anonymous, is sometimes used for cyberattacks, trading of illegal goods, and other such things, and that may require special software to access?
Explanation
Dark web — content that ordinary search engines do not index, reached only through special software that hides who is connecting.
Dark web sites are reached through anonymising networks such as Tor, which route traffic through several relays so that neither the site nor an observer can see the visitor's address. That anonymity is why the dark web is used to trade illegal goods, sell stolen data and attack tools, and plan cyberattacks.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) RSS — a format for distributing a website's update summaries, such as news headlines, to feed readers
- •(b) SEO — search engine optimization: making a site rank higher in ordinary search results, the opposite of hidden content
- •(c) Cross-site scripting — an attack that injects a malicious script into a vulnerable web page so that it runs in visitors' browsers; it is an attack, not a kind of content
Key rule: The dark web is the part of the Internet that is unindexed and reached only with anonymising software; its anonymity is what draws illegal activity.
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