Deep Web
dreskieboogie
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Who has visited the dark side?
I read in a recent Time Mag article that there's several 1000's websites which can only be visited through Deep Web. I'm not into buying drugs, child pornography, fake ID's etc. What else is there?
I'm curious to know more.
I read in a recent Time Mag article that there's several 1000's websites which can only be visited through Deep Web. I'm not into buying drugs, child pornography, fake ID's etc. What else is there?
I'm curious to know more.
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That part interests me but all the illegal disgusting content mixed with hackers attacking your computer is enough to keep me out. I learned in college disturbing images can't be unseen.
Has anyone tried it? I might get bored and try as curiosity gets the best of me... must resist.
"Location of Atlantis"
:shh:
Srs, I can't think of any better way for The Man to keep tabs on dodgy mugs than setting up a "Completely Anonymous Place On The Internet Where You Can Talk About All The Stuff You Don't Want The Man To Know."
I guess that's because unlike you none of us have jobs that are hard and demanding enough to allow us to spend our days exploring the underbelly of the worldwide web.
b/w
Sensationalize that only pedophiles and murders use this shit, encourage government clampdown, ........ NSA wins?
I'm staying out of the water from now on.
Be prepared to not feel quite right for the rest of the day.
http://imgur.com/r/creepy/Niw81
Exactly. It's tragically funny. What the hell could possibly be worse than, say, the snuff videos readily available and widely circulated on "regular web"? Once you jump through all the hoops to pass that threshold, you're just asking for and deserve anything that will bite you in the ass later. I wonder how heroin smugglers and child traffickers ever got along without the Internet.
I saw this a while ago on a french forum, it must have circulated a lot, from the few lines I read it reads like a horror fic from a 16 years old, the evil scientist cheap vibe, the demonstrative "I explain you what I do and tell you I like it".
There can't be much interesting activity on the deep web anyway if less than 1% people have access to it. I mean, the rest is actively trying to run this web thing and capitalize it on wall street and the best thing we have after 20 years is fucking facebook and its clones and a couple forums.
And how many evil people know how to use Tor or can care to try? Illegal activity my ass, you can buy guns and drugs at every corner but people freak out about the deep web cause of, you know, science-fiction, underworld, conspiracy, the jews. Oh, and it's deep.
It's the strength of that anonimity that's given deep web this car crash appeal, because it offers some seriously fucked up people the immunity to talk openly.
It's also full of kneckbeards, computer science geeks, hackers and hacktivists, file traders, wikileaks types, conspiracy nuts and people who just really want to be anon.
But I find it hard to believe it's so much larger than the surface web. I imagine a fair amount of the masses of information accounted for in deep web are dead and inaccessible websites. All those early 90s homemade websites, long abandoned blogs etc that are no longer compatible or indexable. That and a shit ton of porn.
This is evolving at a phenomenal rate. Dodgy hidden web networks and content have been around since Usenet days but this is a whole new level of sophistication and scope - the game is changing radically almost on a daily basis. The line between web and dark web (the underweb, as a friend calls it) is pretty blurred now that anyone with a browser can access this shit from a million links and be reasonably sure of anonymity. That said, the iceberg analogy that 90% of web content is hidden is stupid.
I'll much rather wait and see what the mayor of Toronto is up to today. That's way more entertaining and has a much better outrageousness/realness ratio.
Great minds think alike... only that I was stupid enough to type a bunch of nonsense trying to make the same point.
It's not news that there's a kind of 'cyber underworld' (lols) and has been since people started using the internet. Once e-commerce took off and the real underworld connected with the hacker world, things like Tor became indispensable. If you're interested there are books written by hackers who've run criminal enterprises, got busted and turned security analyst. But if a hacker sells credit card information to criminal, who turns around with the classic I'll give you 10,000 cash or the equivalent in drugs that you can flip for a profit, which is useless to most hackers cause they don't have the real world network to move the drugs on, but what they do have is this anon network full of like minded individuals and a knowledge of e-commerce. So criminal activity expands on the internet through forces of economics in they same way it does in the real world. It's no great leap to go from hacked credit card details to tech savvy people involved in serious crime seeing the benefit of a completely anonymous system and extending it's use to their other money making avenues.
Of coarse it's not all real though.
There is a ton of volume in the deep web because a ton of people are into illegal downloads and money transfers, hacking, drugs, murder, theft and morally reprehensible porn. I'm pretty sure there is no site there with all the rarest secret squirrels records in high grade MP3s. Until then, I'm not interested.
This is so true. I don't know if people realize that so many of those dead sites are still sitting out there occupying space. There are also tons of pages that are just code for a regular site but written to not be found by Google etc. You would even give a crap if you saw one of those. A least half the deep web is just an electronic file cabinet that is not exciting in the least. Oh yea, and a shit ton of porn.
Fun fact, the one music site I thought I found ended up being some insane revolutionary extremist propaganda and not the it's so bad it's funny kind. I couldn't shut the computer down fast enough. Watch yourself.