Has anyone been to the "Deep Webs"?

[Alex]

Okay, so I've watched commentaries and read articles, including the famous forum post: http://i.imgur.com/Xq7ih.png, but seeing as how there is no other evidence of the deep web, that can be easily searched (for good reason). I just want to know who has been on it before, and if the stories are true. I want to know your experiences in the "dark net". Because, I for one, am too scared to browse Tor, fearing hackers and Federal government alike. I mean,The fear of accidentally going to child pornography, drug dealing, mutilation, or worse is just scary.

But I am still curious to what's actually on these unindexed sites. From what I know, many of these sites have been shut down by the government, so what's left?



I guess, what I am trying to ask, in all seriousness, is what have been some people's experiences while browsing the deep web? I have minimal intentions of using Tor, for valid reasons, as mentioned before. I don't want to come across illicit, horrible events, and then have the NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. at my front door (proxies and vpn aren't 100% protection), so can anybody tell their views?

[Duncan]

You are conflating the two terms Deep Web and Dark Net when they are distinct entities. The Surface Web is what you can find when you search with a search engine such as Google. It makes up a small part of the web most of which is not indexed and so not searchable and is known as the Deep Web. It is mostly academic and government reports and archives, pages that are created dynamically (that is they do not exist until someone asks for them) etc. There is nothing sinister about the Deep Web. A small part of the Deep Web is populated by criminal elements who, for obvious reasons, do not want to be found via search engines this part is known as the Dark Net (which itself should not be confused with the Dark Web)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web


TOR is a separate entity again being an anonymising network (known as Onion sites) which means that the users cannot be traced - although many can be traced - again only a small part of the TOR network is used for criminal activities.

https://www.torproject.org

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/find-active-onion-sites/

https://sites.google.com/site/howtoacces...e-deep-web

[Chet]

The hidden wiki is not as exciting as it sounds. As with the regular web, if you do not go looking for cp, drugs, hitmen, etc.... you will not see it. You will see links, but that stuff will not just jump out at you.

If you are curious, I recommend to NOT use the Tor bundle. The US government has been and will continue to exploit flaws in peoples computers and/or Firefox to track them. To avoid this, use Liberte Linux or TAILS booted from a usb drive.
http://dee.su/liberte
https://tails.boum.org/