The Deep Web

[ZikaJeSrbin]

Hello fellow SG members...

To be sincere, I really do not know what instigated me to open this thread, but it seems to me as a worthy topic to discuss. I am sure that probably most of you have heard of the Deep Web or commonly known as the Dark Web. The Deep Web is registered as the holder of more than 90 % of the worldwide Internet. The Deep Web requires a special browser in order to be accessed and they web addresses change constantly with the aim to evade any recognition by official law enforcement forces. It is the Invisible Web which people often use as a medium to process banking transactions and in most cases used in drug trafficking (Not only...)

http://images.dailytech.com/Shifty*age/Deep_Web_Wide.jpg

 

[Sepak]

I have only used it to research Cicada 3301's puzzles, with a team of my university. There is too much shit in there.

 

[chygry]

What is there to discuss? Sites like these have existed for some years now, and i highly doubt that they will cease to exist in the near future. Most people know or at least have heard about them. And i think you forgot to bring up bitcoins, which play a huge role in that stuff.

You should have blurred out some of the context of those images at least, because you basically sourced a website where a person can get pretty much everything drug related.

 

[Mus]

Silk road was a normal website. Idiots here were getting shut down left right and center for using it

 

[chygry]

I recently read that the site was hacked or something, over 2 million dollars worth of bitcoins gone. Had something to do with some escrow thing or something, some people calling it an inside job by the admins/owners there. I don't know what to think about it, must have sucked for those who lost a large amount of money because of it.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/bitcoin-silk-road-hacked-millions-lost/

 

[Mus]

****** currency is a scam and if you invest in it then you don't really have much to complain about when you lose big

 

[chygry]

Yeah, absolutely true.

Some have gotten lucky and benefited from it, though. I believe there was a huge rise in bitcoin value at some point. So some who had bought them for cheap and had some laying around, made a huge profit. But i don't really know much about that stuff.

 

[Alex]

Silk road was a normal website. Idiots here were getting shut down left right and center for using it

No it wasn't, it could only be accessed by using TOR.

And they caught bugger all people in Australia in it - they liked to pretend to the media they got many more than they did. Scare tactics essentially

 

[Alex]

Yeah, absolutely true.

Some have gotten lucky and benefited from it, though. I believe there was a huge rise in bitcoin value at some point. So some who had bought them for cheap and had some laying around, made a huge profit. But i don't really know much about that stuff.

There has been loads of big rises in btc, and it is still well above the starting value (we're talking 1000s of %).

Bitcoin isn't necessarily part of the dark web itself though. It's the main currency used, but it can be purchased on the normal web - so I believe that's a separate topic.

No currency will ever be perfect, btc was a reasonable attempt, but has some flaws. But national currencies also have flaws - instead of being controlled by hackers, government reserve banks can have a huge impact on real life currencies. Perhaps not to the same extent, but that's also exaggerated because of the relatively young age of ******-currency.

 

[chygry]

Yup. I just mainly brought up bitcoins because i don't think sites like SR would function without them like they do. Since they rely on anonymosity.

 

[Mus]

No it wasn't, it could only be accessed by using TOR.

And they caught bugger all people in Australia in it - they liked to pretend to the media they got many more than they did. Scare tactics essentially

I know personally one guy that got busted (actually got promoted at work because he left his job) and my brother knows another - and this is perth

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

I have never heard of this

 

[Sepak]

I have never heard of this

Why would you anyway?

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

I want my drugs and child porn!

 

[chygry]

You've got all you need in the first post basically to get started!

 

[Sepak]

He would end up with a lot of spyware. Antivirus softwares are not made for the deep web.

 

[chygry]

I'm quite sure he's used to spyware, he just doesn't know about it.

And is "The Deep Web" (oh god i hate that term so much) really infected with a lot of spyware? I basically have zero experience with it. Except for someone showing me that SR site once, because i insisted and was just curious.

 

[Sepak]

Depends what you do there, but yes. We did a test in Gentoo with Azureus and it was fun to see the amount of unknown viruses coming in. They can't do anything in Linux.

 

[Mus]

I'd imagine yoyo would be an expert At this

 

[yoyo913]

I heard of it but I wouldn't have the balls to order some of those items to my address.