Has anyone here ever ventured into the deep web?

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Wouldn’t know how to begin; but will follow attentively 🙂

ICXC NIKA
 
Oh, don’t remind me…
There was this horrendously fuzzy tarantula with big sharp pincers that came after me chasing me out of there.
I was lucky I had my rain slickers on. Those webs are so sticky!
Never again the deep web.
Ever forward never back.
 
Googler said:
Oh, don’t remind me…
There was this horrendously fuzzy tarantula with big sharp pincers that came after me chasing me out of there.
I was lucky I had my rain slickers on. Those webs are so sticky!
Never again the deep web.
Ever forward never back.
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I’m not sure what, exactly, you’re asking? The deep web is just stuff that isn’t indexed by standard search engines. Businesses keep data there, lots of databases, media files, etc…generally behind firewalls & secured. (You don’t want me to see the contents of your Yahoo email folder just by a Google search query, eh?) If you’re wondering about the “salacious” parts, yes there are people attempting to do illegal things, just like they attempt to do illegal things in the visible internet space. People are people. But generally, it’s just scads of 0s & 1s of little interest to most people. Even if you did access it, unless you know where you’re going/how to get there, it’s not particularly interesting. (Just like lots of visible content is behind firewalls, too.)

Is there something specific of interest to you?
 
KnitNut said:
I’m not sure what, exactly, you’re asking? The deep web is just stuff that isn’t indexed by standard search engines. Businesses keep data there, lots of databases, media files, etc…generally behind firewalls & secured. (You don’t want me to see the contents of your Yahoo email folder just by a Google search query, eh?) If you’re wondering about the “salacious” parts, yes there are people attempting to do illegal things, just like they attempt to do illegal things in the visible internet space. People are people. But generally, it’s just scads of 0s & 1s of little interest to most people. Even if you did access it, unless you know where you’re going/how to get there, it’s not particularly interesting. (Just like lots of visible content is behind firewalls, too.)

Is there something specific of interest to you?
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I am interested to see if anyone has ever gone to the dark net. Sorry if I wasn’t specific: a lot of people tend to conflate the two terms.
 
from How Stuff Works:
What a tangled web we weave, indeed. About 40 percent of the world’s population uses the Web for news, entertainment, communication and myriad other purposes [source: Internet Growth Statistics 1995 to 2021 - the Global Village Online”]Internet World Stats
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]. Yet even as more and more people log on, they are actually finding less of the data that’s stored online. That’s because only a sliver of what we know as the World Wide Web is easily accessible.
The so-called surface Web, which all of us use routinely, consists of data that search engines can find and then offer up in response to your queries. But in the same way that only the tip of an iceberg is visible to observers, a traditional search engine sees only a small amount of the information that’s available – a measly 0.03 percent [source: http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/invisible-web/”]OEDB].

As for the rest of it? Well, a lot of it’s buried in what’s called the deep Web. The deep Web (also known as the undernet, invisible Web and hidden Web, among other monikers) consists of data that you won’t locate with a simple Google search.
No one really knows how big the deep Web really is, but it’s hundreds (or perhaps even thousands) of times bigger that the surface Web. This data isn’t necessarily hidden on purpose. It’s just hard for current search engine technology to find and make sense of it.

There’s a flip side of the deep Web that’s a lot murkier – and, sometimes, darker – which is why it’s also known as the dark Web. In the dark Web, users really do intentionally bury data. Often, these parts of the Web are accessible only if you use special browser software that helps to peel away the onion-like layers of the dark Web.

This software maintains the privacy of both the source and the destination of data and the people who access it. For political dissidents and criminals alike, this kind of anonymity shows the immense power of the dark Web, enabling transfers of information, goods and services, legally or illegally, to the chagrin of the powers-that-be all over the world.

As Knit Nut points out “deep web” and “dark web” have been conflated leading to confusion.
I think this has been deliberately fostered by politicians and law enforcement. You might as well talk about dark freeways that are used for criminal purposes.
 
TheAmazingGrace said:
I am interested to see if anyone has ever gone to the dark net. Sorry if I wasn’t specific: a lot of people tend to conflate the two terms.
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What’re your specific questions about the “dark net”? It’s not user friendly - you can’t just surf on in & hit up a pretty search engine, nor a vast landing “portal”. There are some small portals that people attempt to maintain, but access pathways tend to shift so any collection of links an inexperienced user might find are probably of little to no value. You generally have to know a) what you’re looking for and b) how to get there on your own (as in, somebody gave you the info ahead of time, somehow). If you poke around the “surface web” publicly available boards (halfchan, infinitychan, reddit, and the like), there’s discussion that might give you the info you want. Just know that it’s actually quite difficult to be truly anonymous in the electronic realm, even with a complex multi-node access via Tor, so don’t do anything you wouldn’t want basically the whole world to know about, because “they” really are watching.
 
The easiest way I know to access it is to google google. Then find the entry under games called geothermal nuclear war, this is located right behind tic tac toe. (Or as the kids call it, hashtag). And then just play.
The alternative way in involves a robot from the future, a software called skynet, and an active Ashley Madison account.

Just kidding of course, everyone knows that to access you take a certain colored pill, plug a long probe into your brain and then enter the matrix as “the one”

Follow the white rabbit.

Just kidding,
Just go to Reddit and search “trump”
 
You want to know what’s on the dark web? Federal and State documents that are not indexed and therefore can’t be found by search engines.
These are NOT defense secrets, just agency reports, financial records, &c, almost all subject to FOIA laws.
Of course you can find these records by figuring out they exist, going to the appropriate agency, possibly being told they don’t exist or are lost or you need a court order.
 
I was wondering why the internet had become rather bland and surface-y these past few years.
 
Bland? Surfacey?

I’d say a bit of the new toy smell has rubbed off. Plus, believe it or not, people cannot whine forever. I know… I know… some are really trying but I’ve seen some just go “I’m not going to get people to take orders from me” realize that this is true.

Oh, and saying, “You’re doing it W R O N G” to whoever and seeing nothing change, usually results in a diminishing feedback loop.

Ed

My 2 cents.
 
Does the Silk Road count? I never utilized it, but years ago, before I had any religious inclinations in my life, I was very curious about using the silk road to buy pot but I never did it. I remember even having to download some bizarre browser to even access it.

:whacky:
 
LibertarianJim said:
Does the Silk Road count? I never utilized it, but years ago, before I had any religious inclinations in my life, I was very curious about using the silk road to buy pot but I never did it. I remember even having to download some bizarre browser to even access it.

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I know a guy who used that site to buy drugs, and I did it once when I was suffering with my addiction, I believe silk road is shut down now, those kinds of sites are still around, but usually disguised as something else, heck around here, they use Craigslist, but they disguise the ‘product/ service’.

When it comes to this kind of thing, law enforcement is always playing catch up, trying to figure out the latest method or trend.
 
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