The Dark Web

[Stinky The Clown]

What the fuck does that even mean? I hear it mainly in ads about your personal credit report and the companies eager to protect it.

What is the Dark Web?

[roamer65]

1. You must be watching MSNBC, Stinky.

Experian had their dark web ad.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web

[Leith]

2. It's Part of the Internet

But you can't find dark websites by using Google. You just have to know the URL already. Sites aren't hosted by well known servers like GoDaddy, but by personally run computers.

Also, you have to use the Tor browser. From the site:

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

[defacto7]

3. Yeah, one better use tor if you go to the dark side.

Not doing so is a fools bet.

[Make7]

4. A couple videos from Computerphile about the internet:

(6 minutes)

(12½ minutes)

[virtualobserver]

5. you can only see it if you turn the brightness on your monitor way down

[cbreezen]

6. I'm figuring some enterprising souls...

use something similar to what we used to call mIRC back in the mid 1990s.

[defacto7]

7. Actually the dark net is much bigger

than the net most people know about. It's a lot of illegal and very explicit material that could never be shown on usual search engines. Drug traffic, human trafficking... The NSA and law enforcement have a big presence on it. There are a lot of traps to infect unsuspecting passers by as well.
I decided to check around down there once. It's not worth it. Pretty ugly. If you do take a look, do not go unless you're well protected. TOR is a necessity.

Edit: There really is no "there", that's a false image. It's anywhere that's not normally accessible or monitored where links stay within their anonymous parameters.

[Docreed2003]

8. While the dark web is a legit thing...my mind immediately goes to

[defacto7]

9. Sorry, I feel like I'm beating the proverbial dead horse..

But for a serious point, I wrote a poem right aftet my first visit to that pit because I was moved from the experience. I'll give you a link if you're interested..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1199332

Anyway..