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Articles by Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong

Contributing writer at DarkWebDecoded.com covering dark web security, scam alerts, and privacy tools.

Glowing circuit-line balance scale weighing a free alert bell against a paid shield with a price tag, with the headline Is Dark Web Monitoring Worth It
Monitoring

Is Dark Web Monitoring Worth It?

A dark web alert lands in your inbox. Your email address, perhaps a password and perhaps more has turned up…

Steve Armstrong
Oct 24, 2026
7 min read
Search bar spotlight lighting up only a small slice of a vast dark onion network, showing that dark web search engines index less than 5% of onion services
Guides

Dark Web Search Engines – How Deep Web Search Engines Work

Type a word into Google and you’re searching an index of hundreds of billions of pages. Type the same word…

Steve Armstrong
Oct 24, 2026
16 min read