Hi

Has anyone any experience of using the deep/dark web? If so, I'd be keen to learn of your experiences, good or bad and things to do and those to avoid.

Thanks

Chubbs

What do you mean the nasty side of the web or the protected side Tor, Xcryptor etc?

Edited 14 December, 201213 yr by Aspman

Do you mean IRC? :p

or porn? not that'd id know anything about that :think:

I understand you access using downloads from the Tor Project and want to be able to educate myself given the vast amount of info it holds. My main goal is to stay safe and avoid pitfalls as I'm not specifically using it to find anything in particular and clearly don't want to find myself on the wrong side of any law enforcement agency. I just want to be able to use it as a research tool.

Tor isn't for accessing downloads how you think.

Tor = onion routing.

Is a method of communicating (and I mean on a machine level not chat) across the network in a way which is very difficult to trace, not impossible.

Loved by spooks and paedophiles alike.

It's got little real use for the man in the street and just having would make you stand out as having something serious to hide.

You're not going to be able to use it to find anything. It's not a search engine.

There is no 'deep' or 'dark' web. That's Hollywood. You might hear of 'dark fibre' or 'dark nets' but that sounds more interesting that it is. It just means unused. Some companies pick up dark fibre to use as leased lines where the ends work out for them.