I never even heard of the the term hidden internet until last night. Apparently the internet that we all know and use only makes up 20% of data that exists out there. The hidden or deep web makes up the vast majority of the internet and is not indexed by conventional search engines or accessible through regular internet browsers.
I've been reading up on it and it is really intriguing me and scaring me at the same time. I am sure most of it is just useless complied information that no one cares about. But I feel like Alice who just tumbled down the rabbit's hole. You could read more about it on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Web
Wow, now I'm curious what's on the deep web!!! I wonder if part of it is things like medical records, or top secret government information, I see what you mean about the rabbit hole feeling, it also kinda makes me think about the matrix. As if our reality of what the internet is, is what someone else wants us to know. Hmmm I wonder....."red pill, or blue pill?"(movie reference)
My feelings exactly. Apparently all the recent stuff on wikileaks was available for months or even years prior on the 'deep web'. I read some posts saying basically the hidden web consists of everything from old university findings to government cache and even international human trafficking rings. Some crazy ****.
Well you can surf it. I haven't tried yet but I am tempted. You can easily find out how just by googling hidden or deep web for starters. I wish never even found out about it. The curiosity is killing me. They advise it is not for novices since it can be less secure and if you don't know what you are doing you could be a target for attack sites or hackers.
I never even heard of the the term hidden internet until last night. Apparently the internet that we all know and use only makes up 20% of data that exists out there. The hidden or deep web makes up the vast majority of the internet and is not indexed by conventional search engines or accessible through regular internet browsers.
I've been reading up on it and it is really intriguing me and scaring me at the same time. I am sure most of it is just useless complied information that no one cares about. But I feel like Alice who just tumbled down the rabbit's hole. You could read more about it on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Web
I've heard of this before and have considered using tor but I wasn't sure it was worth it. Seems like the deep web is filled with either child porn or purchasing illegal drugs and firearms. Since most of us, I assume are not in china, where everything is censored and require the use of tor to access parts of the Internet we all take for granted, is there any reason the average Joe would need to use tor for?
I've also heard of silkroad (eBay of drugs) allowed you to purchase drugs in an anonymous way through use of bitcoins. Anyone ever heard of this or tried it out?
I've also read that through using bitcoins you could purchase anything with anonymity such as hits on people. Seems interesting but once again not sure of the usefulness for the everyday person.
I've heard of this before and have considered using tor but I wasn't sure it was worth it. Seems like the deep web is filled with either child porn or purchasing illegal drugs and firearms. Since most of us, I assume are not in china, where everything is censored and require the use of tor to access parts of the Internet we all take for granted, is there any point the average Joe would need to use tor for?
I've also heard of silkroad (eBay of drugs) allowed you to purchase drugs in an anonymous way through use of bitcoins. Anyone ever heard of this or tried it out?
I've also read that through using bitcoins you could purchase anything with anonymity such as hits on people. Seems interesting but once again not sure of the usefulness for the everyday person.
I am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut. I love reading about it and crazy government experiments like project mkultra where the CIA kidnapped a bunched of people and experimented on them while megadosing them on lsd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
I heard that you could find 100x more information on the government in the deep web than on sites like wikipedia or wikileaks. That's what I want to use it for. I don't need to buy drugs, set up assassinations or watch illegal porn. I just want to read up on crazy ****.
Yeah, I know... but they say curiosity kills the cat. I downloaded Tor awhile ago but I'm not versed enough to know how to protect myself, so I resisted that urge. What I don't know won't kill me, I guess... except the light of an oncoming freight train.
How intriguing... I thought I had actually found something when I found a drug selling/bombmaking/general criminal activity forum. Guess not, since I found it through Google.
The deepweb is pretty much filled with child porn and drug sellers. You will occasionally find scientific articles being disseminated and distributed by teams of scientists, and also alot of goverment dissidents (like from Iran and China) organize their political activities there because its do difficult to trace them. So it's sort of a double edged blade....used for both good and evil. Also alot of the Lulsec guys and 4chan raids are organized there like before a DDoS operation on a certain target, etc.
I think just idea that there was a whole another world that you never even knew existed which was right under your nose is what is so intriguing about it. In reality it's probably not that exciting or mysterious. I've been thinking about this all day.
Yeah I decided not to go through with it. I did a little digging and people are saying most of it is useless data. The only interesting bits are illegal stuff which I am not into. Apparently there are bunch of manuals like how to travel internationally without leaving traces which seems interesting to know. But it is mixed with things like how to kidnap children and other nauseating things.
I listened to an NPR interview with a hacker who accessed it.
To be honest, there is enough scary stuff on the web that we have now, that I'm kind of afraid what is in the "Deep web." I wouldn't surf it, even if I knew how to.
Been on the underground and bought drugs from a site you can't reach unless you use the tor browser.
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