Have You Ever Visited The Deep Web?

Lightbulb Sun · 12-03-2014 10:09pm #1

I haven't myself although I did download the tor browser once.

Deleted it immediately as it was very slow.

For those that have been on the deep web, did you find anything interesting? Does anyone visit it regularly?

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 12-03-2014 10:10pm

Kinda half interested in it but scared of what I'll see there so haven't been too proactive about getting there.

Holsten · 12-03-2014 10:12pm

It's basically the criminals internet.

Guns, drugs, hit men, forged documents, etc...

Stavros Murphy · 12-03-2014 10:12pm

Andy McNab swears by it. Never been there myself, mainly due to cluelessness. And the whole "generally being legit", as opposed to not..

holystungun9 · 12-03-2014 10:14pm

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Andy McNab swears by it. Never been there myself, mainly due to cluelessness. And the whole "generally being legit", as opposed to not..

Stavros Murphy???

kryogen · 12-03-2014 10:16pm

I like it, there is an alternate boards there, very dark place

Lightbulb Sun · 12-03-2014 10:16pm

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Andy McNab swears by it. Never been there myself, mainly due to cluelessness. And the whole "generally being legit", as opposed to not..

What's Mr. McNab using it for? Research for his novels?

OneEightSeven · 12-03-2014 10:18pm

Go to the Hidden Wiki. I found a forum for paedophiles where they openly confess their love for children. It's the true shíthole of the Internet.

MS.ing · 12-03-2014 10:21pm

never even heard about it till now right here

but Instinctively knew of it just never knew there an actual name for it, just thought it would be places on the net that serious criminals would use, paedo rings, terrorist organisations, mafia that sort of stuff. hidden behind layers of passwords and encryption

Stavros Murphy · 12-03-2014 10:21pm

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

What's Mr. McNab using it for? Research for his novels?

Noo, he tracks down stuff, and things, jasus, read the books, he's always on the deep web - could be his "Mr Stone" lad doing the Uber-Googling, come to think of it. Spy-stuff, deep web, Jason Bourne, shaken not stirred, "swap you for a bag of weed" - that sort of thing.

wonderfulname · 12-03-2014 10:30pm

It's interesting for a nose, it's like an older, illegitimate internet, or it was about 2 years ago when i last looked, the tor network has a web directory, most of the sites are very basic html pages to conserve bandwidth, sites experience (d) a lot of downtime, it's populated with geeks, the illegally enterprising, activists, and scum, there’s not much to it. Be careful where you go and be careful what you do using the tor browser, you can just assume you're being monitored, nobody will know who you are, but if you sign in to your email or check your bank balance through it someone will likely get those details.

My name is URL · 12-03-2014 10:30pm

I tried to but I got stuck

TheFarrier · 12-03-2014 10:34pm

How does one access this deep web ??

Never heard of it before now, it has piqued my interest slightly.
Is it worth a snoop around??

kjl · 12-03-2014 10:38pm

Yeah, I've been on Silk Road.
It was good for a while but not reliable anymore.

There is a lot of child porn on it, and forums where people trade images and videos.

jane82 · 12-03-2014 10:38pm

Im deeply interested and frightfully scared at the same time. Is this just a method of unblocking all the blocked sites or is this a whole different internet?

Holsten · 12-03-2014 10:41pm

jane82 wrote: »

Im deeply interested and frightfully scared at the same time. Is this just a method of unblocking all the blocked sites or is this a whole different internet?

It is websites that are not indexed by search engines like Google.

That's it.

Vivienne23 · 12-03-2014 10:41pm

That's odd you bring it up I visited for the first time Last Saturday , I downloaded a tor browser app ages ago but it never worked seen it on the ipad and said I'd chance it,got on anyway took ages to get to the directory (prob coz I hadn't a clue what I was doing )

Interesting to see the stuff you can buy , forged notes , guns , hit men but I am sceptical a good percentage of them must be scams (my own opinion ) would you trust a criminal selling this stuff online to take your payment and send you stuff ? I certainly wouldn't , will definitely go on again for a look sometime but its a painstakingly slow process to get to where you want ,

One thing I did see which I thought was shocking was PayPal accounts that you could buy and "cash in" , I.e hacked accounts with an amount for sale , I shuddered to think that could be me someday ...cue change of password

it's mad that there's a part of the net that is so twisted and illegal that most people don't know exist

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 12-03-2014 10:42pm

Mostly stuff law abiding folk don't really want to see I think.

gumbo1 · 12-03-2014 10:50pm

Is there a link? How exactly does one go about accessing the deep web?

Holsten · 12-03-2014 10:51pm

Download the TOR browser so you can access .onion websites and away you go.

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2014 10:52pm

To me it's a lot like Waterford. I have absolutely zero interest in ever going there.

Legs.Eleven · 12-03-2014 10:52pm

Never heard of it. Presumed if I just stuck anything into the Googelator that I could find any website that way. Never tested it as I don't think I could handle what I'd find.

Stavros Murphy · 12-03-2014 10:54pm

holystungun9 wrote: »

Stavros Murphy???

That's a very respectable name, I'll have you know. I've had worse.

John Mason · 12-03-2014 10:57pm

They use it in house of cards to get hacked telephone records and transcripts of text messages and conversations

gumbo1 · 12-03-2014 10:57pm

Holsten wrote: »

Download the TOR browser so you can access .onion websites and away you go.

Don't really want to download a browser. What if it's full of spyware and the like? Actually the more I think about it the less interested I get and the more the paranoia grows!

BillyMitchel · 12-03-2014 10:58pm

I have zero idea how to get on it. I'd be afraid in case I clicked on something I shouldn't and the door gets kicked in! Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean it won't happen!

Would some of the links on Reddits spacedicks count as the dark web? Half that stuff should be in the deepest darkest corners of the web.

Adamantium · 12-03-2014 10:58pm

It is basically want the internet was in the beginning. Totally unmoderated. No "safe" zones. A lovecraft nightmare.

Here is a link from reddit detailing what users have found on it...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1873tw/what_is_the_thing_which_you_came_across_in_the/

Beware even reading this.

Here's a messed up subculture:

There was a screen shot of a forum full of people that were HIV positive. They told stories of how they wanted to infect more and more people...its pretty ****ed...

There is lot of supposed hitmen (probably college aged scammers), Silk Road for buying and selling Drugs and the whole set up guarantess virtual anoymity. Although FBI and the like monitor the exits, there isn't anything they could do.

You can buy/get anything if you want it.
EDIT: For those wondering, Tor is essentially a super-secure line to the Internet. Pretty much entirely untraceable. So it's a breeding ground for child pornography, illegal weapons, sex trafficking, and any drug you could think of. It's terrifying.

Duggy747 · 12-03-2014 11:00pm

Massive amount of stuff on it but it's largely trivial and boring stuff beyond the hacking, guns, drugs, supposed hitmen for hire and forgery notes / passports / ID cards / etc.

There's a few child porn forums referenced in hidden wiki which obviously you don't even think of going near.

Hidden wiki on the subject makes for some extremely grim reading.