What do you know about the Deep/Dark Web?

[herbu]

Have seen the Deep Web or Dark Web mentioned several times on TV lately. A google search easily finds a free browser that supposedly lets you access. Thought it might be fun to browse online ads for illegal guns/women/drugs.

Seriously, does the anonymity really prevent spam or have another useful purpose?

 

[rojo]

Search for Vidalia + Privoxy. Don't expect your discovery level to reach Neo-from-the-Matrix levels, though. Tor is slow as hell, and you could potentially open your internet connection up as a gateway for people who know what they're doing to make you wish they didn't.

 

[j_garcia]

Search for Vidalia + Privoxy. Don't expect your discovery level to reach Neo-from-the-Matrix levels, though. Tor is slow as hell, and you could potentially open your internet connection up as a gateway for people who know what they're doing to make you wish they didn't.

Yep. That's a Pandora's box better left alone unless you know how to stop those people who know what they're doing.

 

[lsiberian]

It's best you stay away from it.

 

[Midwesthonky]

Yeah...some things are better left in the dark. Like checking out a good deal on a Rolex from a guy in a dark alley. Wandering the dark woods in the deep rural south when you hear banjos. My sister-in-law...

Especially if you do not have the skills. You could lose your identity faster than you can blink and then you spend years and never get it all cleaned up.

 

[shadyJ]

[video=youtube;HJOSm9Bg7WY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOSm9Bg7WY[/video]

 

[Adam]

Never heard of this before. Still deciding if I'm interested enough to Google it. Probably not...

If you want to avoid getting your info stolen, can't you just do whatever this is on a standalone computer with no personal info on it?

 

[herbu]

better left alone unless you know how to stop those people who know what they're doing.

Interesting stuff. I think this is sound advice, I certainly DO NOT know what I'm doing, and am likely not smart enough to learn.

 

[Adam]

This morning, I read the short Wikipedia entry on this. Interesting. Kind of. The thought that a huge percentage of the web isn't searched means a bit less to me given that I only look at a small percentage of the web that is searched. "But, there's a lot out there that you don't even know about." "No s**t. That's true of just about everything."

Now, if there was something like Dark Amazon, I'd be all over that. I wonder if they have a program like "Wilted Vine" where you can get drugs and stuff to try out for free. "This coke was okay, but the distinct taste of the baby powder that they used to cut it with was, quite honestly, a distraction for the two free Russian hookers that I got to go with it. Three stars."

 

[ski2xblack]

Silk Road was (is?) the Dark Amazon.

 

[herbu]

Now, if there was something like Dark Amazon, I'd be all over that

In shadyJ's YouTube video, the guy seems to be looking at something exactly like that.

 

[Adam]

Silk Road was (is?) the Dark Amazon.

In shadyJ's YouTube video, the guy seems to be looking at something exactly like that.

I was just joking around - mostly about getting free illegal stuff and writing reviews on it.

I just read about the Silk Road yesterday, as it was linked from an article on the Dark Web. The FBI cracked down on part of it recently. Can you imagine being an analyst in the NSA or FBI where you monitor this kind of stuff, but there is some line of "bad" that has to get crossed...multiple times...before they're willing to expose that they can monitor it? I don't think that I could take it. Knowing that there's people out there hurting kids/animals/others...and seeing the evidence...and not being able to stop it because they aren't "bad enough" would probably ruin me.

 

[Hi Ho]

I just read about the Silk Road yesterday, as it was linked from an article on the Dark Web. The FBI cracked down on part of it recently. Can you imagine being an analyst in the NSA or FBI where you monitor this kind of stuff, but there is some line of "bad" that has to get crossed...multiple times...before they're willing to expose that they can monitor it? I don't think that I could take it. Knowing that there's people out there hurting kids/animals/others...and seeing the evidence...and not being able to stop it because they aren't "bad enough" would probably ruin me.

Actually there hasn't been any real evidence that the FBI/NSA are able to crack into TOR. The silk road was taken down through traditional physical police work by tracking packages and exploiting the server it was running on. The FBI and NSA really dislike TOR because it is very good at what it does.

 

[gholt]

There was a podcast recently on Stuff you should knowt on the deep dark web. It was interesting. A good listen if you want / need info on it. I would heed the above warning, unless you really know your stuff, it could get bad.