Much like the
earth’s oceans, the World Wide Web is a huge and for the most part unexplored
and or inaccessible place that most of us are completely unaware of, and/or
can’t fully access for a number of reasons. Much like the seas that cover the
planet, the Web has a surface where the majority of people dwell searching for
content and accessing services that help our everyday lives. A place where
search engines like Google are able to index web pages so we can find them.
And then below, in the
abyss of the web, there are terabytes upon terabytes upon terabytes of the
unknown. There is what is called the Deep Web.
The Deep Web is a
place built around Darknets (or dark net), an overlay network that can only be
accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using
non-standard communication protocols and ports. Lot of people can’t access
these sites, and often can’t even find them, so in essence, they are never
either searchable, nor easily discoverable or accessible.
Two typical
darknet types are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with
a peer-to-peer connection), and anonymity networks, such as Tor, which work via
an anonymized series of connections.
So
we can't search it in "a normal" way and we (or websites) are almost
anonymous while being inside. I think you can imagine what kind of stuff is
there. Hacking, weapon trading, drug trading, murder for hire, taboo
pornography. If you name it, you can probably get it.
However, Darknet,
as almost every evil discover, was built with a different purpose. It gives you
anonymity and freedom to speak your mind, whatever you can imagine, whatever
you want. Comment how you want, without being banned. That stands in opposition
to Clearnet (Deep Web slang for the normal Internet).
I would lie if I told
you that the deep web is just about illegal stuff. In fact, entering the deep
web isn't illegal. It's just dangerous for people who are not aware how it
works. Before clicking on a link from the Deep Web, it's good to do research
what really hides behind it. And remember, if we can get into the Deep Web, the
government and special cyber police forces can definitely get in.
The Deep Web is
also used by people who want to remain anonymous or set up sites that can't be
traced back to a physical location or entity. People like whistleblowers and
journalists. Also government networks with restricted access are there. Strange
games like "Sad Satan".
Gameplay from a game
Sad Satan:
What is your view
on that topic? Have you ever been on the Deep Web? Do you want to? For me that
topic is both, fascinating and scary.
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ReplyDeleteI've never heard about deep web , and for me your topic is interesting and strange at the same time . the game in your link ? wtf was that ? :D So strange , but i've watched it to the end.
ReplyDeleteI also heard about the Deep Web for the first time relatively recently. During Warsaw Film Festival was projection of the film about it. Pretty interensting thing.
DeleteReffering to the game it was purportedly discovered on the Deep Web by YouTuber Obscure Horror Corner.
When it comes to strange games:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DItZQEqr9KU xD (sorry for sound, but I couldn't find a clean version, without this "lets play" comments).
I've only read about dark net. Webpages that allow you send a murder request, buy drugs, guns and other illegal stuff. There are few more drastic things there, but who wants to know what kind of things, then he/she can google it.
Probably most of sellers are police officers. Additionally the dark net market is once in a while closed by police, but every time they come back on another server.
Sonic.exe is a game, but reminds me a video "Suicide mouse" with Mickey Mouse which I saw a long time ago.
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A also heard that police open fake website with drug dealing stuff. Everything is like it's real. They are waiting for potential customers. When someone want to buy drugs, they track him and catch such person.
I agree that the subject is extremely interesting. Several times I met with the term Darknet. However, I had no opportunity to "enter" the deep web, but with pleasure I would see how it all looks 'from the inside'. I'm sure we can find plenty of interesting but terrifying things.
ReplyDeleteMost of it is accessible through standard Tor network. Definitely most people don't even know what Tor is, not to mention how to use it, so it's kind of obvious that it's hard to find person who actually used tor, more or less.
ReplyDeleteI am such person, as I was always wondering how "the other side of internet" actually looks like, and it's mostly a paradise for criminals, with massive amount of police looking for them. I find it both funny and terrifying that you can pretty much order drugs, a murder, child pornography or anything else "online" and pay with bitcoins. Tor network is used mostly to remain anonymous, and remaining anonymous is used mostly to do illegal things, as it's practically impossible to track anyone on Tor, unless he did make a mistake.
Despite the fact that it was originally made to let people speak without being banned, you're right that the Deep Web is nowadays mainly used for doing that illegal stuff.
DeleteUsing dark side of internet brings a lot of dengerous staff to the table. But you cannot stay untrackable for all the time if you dont know what u doing. Propably thats the reason of why criminals still dont use it so wide. Once i saw w darkpage of a site for contract killing and assasination. Sounds like a joke? Its more the true!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about safe internet anymore? It look like side effect of nowadays technology. I just Hope i wont get a lot of danger on us...
I saw that page too. 10 000 $ for people around the US and 14 000 $ for people outside the US. That's sick.
DeleteYou're right that you have to know what you're doing in the Deep Web in order to be safe. Lots of viruses, creepy websites with "what once is saw, cannot be 'unseen' content".
I have never heard of such a thing and I have never thought about it. This is a very interesting topic. I agree with what you said, that the subject is both fascinating and scary.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite interesting topic. I have nerever heard about Deep Web before. I don't believe that people who surf in this kind of web remain annonymous. For me it's just a fiction, because everyone can be traced if it's suspicious.
ReplyDeleteAs most of us here I only heard about darknet which is pretty dark stuff indeed. You can buy drugs, make call for murder somebody (jesus christ!) or even buy child pornography (oh my god, this is sick). My brother did some lurking in there but after he found a topic about necrophilia and someone in need of help because he couldn't preserve corpse in his basement - he decided to stop doing it for his own sake :)
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid it's not even half as sick, as thing that can be found there. Can't even imagine what things can be found there after serious research.
DeleteI've only read a little about dark net. I think that Darknets has a dark and, how should I call it, "grey" side - if you know how to deal with it, you could find a place for speaking without any consequences. But in the first place it's a dangerous place, so I don't think so that I will ever try to get to Darknets.
ReplyDeleteI read once a comparison that I liked a lot. Deep Web is like a dark alley in the city. It's a part of big, relatively safe place. You can go there in the night once and nothing happen. Next night you meet there suspicious people who can beat you up.
DeleteIt really sounds out of this world that there are websites where you can order drugs or an assasination. I'm just wondering for how long you can use those kind of pages anonymously.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I know, to the time you make a mistake. For instance enter inappropriate link, bring a virus to your computer or try to buy drugs on a page that is controlled by the police.
DeleteDeep web is interesting topic. Like Łukasz said: "Most of it is accessible through standard Tor network.' In Tor network you can find illegal pornography, black markets where you can buy drugs, guns and even ID cards. Mainly it is a paradise for criminals. There are people who believe in even deeper web, where you can find photos from ufo ships, secret notes of Nicola Tesla and other stuff :).
ReplyDeleteI like the 'dark side' of the internet, which is here described by the 'deep net' term. I used tor together with custom search engines multiple times, because when I'm looking for something that I need for my work or learning process, the popular google results together with their commercial program make many expected results unavailable. That's when I need to go deeper and when one can appreciate the 'deep web' access.
ReplyDeleteThe key to the doors called "safety" in the Deep Web is nothing but the knowledge and awareness of what you're doing there. Some of them use it to do illegal things. Some people, like you, use it to expand capabilities of normal searching engine. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I didn't hear so far about Dark Side. Enough it is interesting, but reading it all to feel such danger, terror how that's all looks.
You're welcome. :) It could be dangerous for people who don't know how to surf there. You can enter some link there that says one and be redirected to the website with content that connot be "unseen" once you've seen it.
DeleteI heard a lot about deep web and also I am using this part of internet. More likely to view what is there. On Silkroad i found that for 5000 pounds u can buy a passport to England!
ReplyDeleteI'm calling the police :P The truth is that I'll propably have difficulties with just imagine what I can find there.
DeleteOn a first year of university I really wanted to see what the dark web is and I successfully entered a TOR network. It's actually not so hard to do. You need some additional software which directs all your network traffic through the TOR network. I can be done even with some browser plugins. I visited few sites with drugs also some communities with almost everything what was illegal. You can easily buy anything you want there. When paying with bitcoin you are almost untraceable.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your experience. I really want to enter Deep Web to see how it looks like, but I'm not sure I'll be able to behave there properly. Have my admiration.
DeleteIt's probably unbelievable but I wasn't really aware of existance of such thing as Deep Web. I mean that I knew that somwhere all of this illegal things have to be found be I didn't think about it more deeply. This topic is really intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand one thing. How can anyone get the access to such websites? I mean that it has to be able to find it somehow, so also the government get easily the access to it. I'd like to track the Deep Web but at the same time I'm a little bit scared of it and of the consequences it could bring.
It's not unbelievable at all. I also heard about the Deep Web for the first time relatively recently. How can you get access? Through TOR network.
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Yes, government also can get easly access. That's why you have to be really carefull while surfing through the Deep Web waters. Every link should be suspicious there.
IT is a really interesting thing, I definitly should read more about this. I think governments should track people who post drugs offers and child porn in dark web.
ReplyDeleteThey track how they can and they shut down such pages. But on that place a few others similar rise. Cyber police specializing in deep web, sometimes open fake website with drug dealing stuff. Everything is like it's real. They are waiting for potential customers. When someone want to buy drugs, they track him and catch such person.
DeleteI heard about it before, but didn't imagine how big it actually might be. Sound a bit creepy and scary. Perhaps I will find this game Sad Satan and program it on Gear VR :D.
ReplyDeleteGood luck. If you did it, I would try to play it on Gear VR. I have to only remember to bring a big bucket with me.
DeleteThe Internet is a place for me to look for useful information and possibly contact with others. I realize that there are vast unexplored space, but I have no such ambitions to more interest in it. I realize that what once went to the network will be there forever, I know that all messages are "spies" but just because I have this awareness I try to settle all matters personally. The Internet has many bad, but I try to use it only for good purposes.
ReplyDeleteLike in the picture you posted, there are some adrenaline junkies who likes to do the things few other people would do or are doing, like scuba diving for example. Same here, not everyone would like to dive deep into the abyss of the "Deep Web" and risk encounter with a shark. At least not me.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting article and similar to @Damian , i never saw about Deep Web till now.
ReplyDeleteI think its only for insider people . Most of normal people dont hear about it , like me :)
Subject is very interesting and also a little bit strange. I’ve never heard about this. Maybe when I’ll read more about it, I will able to say something more. But I think using dark side of the interner bring a lot dangerous staff to the table.
ReplyDeletethe dark web is fucked up. I thought it was just horror movies and harsh videos but nope its the pedos. this is why the dark web needs to die
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