If you dive deep enough into the ocean and the deep blue will eventually go dark, very dark,

and in this darkness, you start seeing all the very strange fish.

I'm talking about the eerie things, the ones with the nasty big teeth and maybe neon lights

that looks like attached to their heads.

On the internet, it's kind of the same story.

At the surface,

we're all used to the familiar things like Amazon and Facebook, Google, YouTube, and commando.com.

But if you dive past all of those into the deep web, well, the internet gets dark too.

While crime is notoriously committed in the dark alleyways, the dark web provides an anonymous dark alleyway.

And on the dark web, you have marketplaces like Amazon selling things like how to be your very own ransomware criminal.

You can get a kit to send phishing emails to thousands or millions of people or even post your own advertisement asking someone to hack someone

you know, maybe get their bank account information or get into his or her email. And get this,

there's even a rating system on the dark web. And if you really mess up on the dark web,

there's a sort of court, like a judicial system where you have to justify your reasons why you did

or did not do something when you were committing a crime there. Joining us on this podcast is John

Hammond. He's a top cybersecurity pro with Huntress. And we're going to learn more about the

dark web and how he tracks criminals down, including getting one guy arrested in real life.

So stay right where you are because all of this and more starts in just a second after we hear

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