Have You Ever Visited The Deep Web?

It's basically the criminals internet.

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

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???

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.

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

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!

I am dying to have look on it now.......but I probably won't.

gumbo1 wrote: »

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

www.thedeepweb.com

Never heard of it until now. Don't want to go on to it either. Would I like to see child porn & gore videos, buy weapons, drugs or other illegal stuff? No.

Went on it a few times after seeing the Silk Road AMA on reddit, but I haven't been on it in months. I ended up on a Brazilian forum (looked a bit like craigslist but you could reply to listings and the posts would show underneath). It seemed to be pretty busy. I translated some of the stuff and from what I could make out, it was a child trafficking board. People were posting age, names, heights etc. along with a @tormail address to email if interested. I felt sick and I hope it was all fake, but it looked real

No pictures, thankfully. It was just a text board and I copied/pasted some lines into a translator.

It isn't all bad from what I know. There is a good side to the deep web and it is invaluable to many people living in countries like Iran, China etc.

Everything is clearly marked there, it isn't like this web, where people link to shock websites or whatever. If there is going to be CP on the other end of a link it states that clearly. If you want to go and check it out, don't be worried about accidentally clicking a link that could get you in trouble.

To access the Deep Web you need to use TOR.
TOR, in a nutshell, encrypts your internet so that it will be accepted by other computers on the TOR net. You cannot access TOR websites without having the proper encryption.
Your internet requests are bounced around between TOR computers (called Relays) until they either hit their destination inside the TOR net or a computer on the TOR net unencrypts it and makes a request to the regular internet (referred to as the Clear Web).

This is the power of TOR, an encrypted request is bounced around making it very difficult to trace back to it's origin, even if the request goes out onto the Clear Web.

TOR is very simple to use, you download the open source TOR proxy (https://www.torproject.org/).
This sets up a new connection on your computer that is configured to encrypt and send data to the TOR network. You can either tell your current browser to use the TOR connection, or you can use the supplied browser.

Using the supplied browser is recommended from and ease of use and security standpoint.

Accessing sites is a little bit more awkward than on the Clean Web. URLs look like this: http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion
If you try to hit that without TOR, nothing will happen.
The addresses are hard to use and they change often so you need search engines or services like DuckDuckGo on the Deep Web to keep track of everything. Assuming the sites themselves allow the search engines to index them.

Remember, looking at the Deep Web, mostly, isn't a crime. Some of the sites with child porn are noted on the Hidden Wiki so they are easy to avoid, I've (thankfully) never seen any while looking around.


It is a very useful tool for fighting government oppression. Since Syria and Egypt erupted the need for Relays has sky-rocketed.
If you are using Android Orbot will get you on TOR on your phone.

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

To access the Deep Web you need to use TOR.
TOR, in a nutshell, encrypts your internet so that it will be accepted by other computers on the TOR net. You cannot access TOR websites without having the proper encryption.
Your internet requests are bounced around between TOR computers (called Relays) until they either hit their destination inside the TOR net or a computer on the TOR net unencrypts it and makes a request to the regular internet (referred to as the Clear Web).

This is the power of TOR, an encrypted request is bounced around making it very difficult to trace back to it's origin, even if the request goes out onto the Clear Web.

TOR is very simple to use, you download the open source TOR proxy (https://www.torproject.org/).
This sets up a new connection on your computer that is configured to encrypt and send data to the TOR network. You can either tell your current browser to use the TOR connection, or you can use the supplied browser.

Using the supplied browser is recommended from and ease of use and security standpoint.

Accessing sites is a little bit more awkward than on the Clean Web. URLs look like this: http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion
If you try to hit that without TOR, nothing will happen.
The addresses are hard to use and they change often so you need search engines or services like DuckDuckGo on the Deep Web to keep track of everything. Assuming the sites themselves allow the search engines to index them.

Remember, looking at the Deep Web, mostly, isn't a crime. Some of the sites with child porn are noted on the Hidden Wiki so they are easy to avoid, I've (thankfully) never seen any while looking around.


It is a very useful tool for fighting government oppression. Since Syria and Egypt erupted the need for Relays has sky-rocketed.
If you are using Android Orbot will get you on TOR on your phone.

This post makes it sound tempting. What's the craziest thing you've came across on it?

Tor is not the only manifestation of the deep web, just the one which has received the most mainstream publicity. There are many other protocols for running underground web applications - i2p is a good example, which apart from allowing anonymous browsing, contains its own built in hidden chat system. Freenet is another.
Serious criminals have probably also created their own protocols which are kept entirely secret and the public knows nothing about. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a program which operated like Tor or i2p but with its own separate proprietary protocol, and was only known or available to members of specific organisations. Makes sense web you think about it - publicity is what will kill Tor due to making it an increased target for surveillance, anything which is kept quiet has a better chance of remaining secure.