The dark net ??

[TimmyR 10]

Well interested I was, so I installed this tor browser (not least because I'd quite like aphex twin's latest creation) and searched for interesting web sites - within literally 5 minutes I found a site listing Q&As. The 3rd questions was "Where can I access child pornography on the dark web?" That's when I uninstalled it. I'm sure there is some interesting stuff out there but personally I can't risk accidentally ending up in some very nasty places. Have a look but be warned if you don't want to see bad things, don't go there. What is shocking is how easy it is to get access to such things anonymously. I can imagine this is very hard to police, but maybe not impossible.

[apelike 10]

Well interested I was, so I installed this tor browser (not least because I'd quite like aphex twin's latest creation) and searched for interesting web sites - within literally 5 minutes I found a site listing Q&As. The 3rd questions was "Where can I access child pornography on the dark web?" That's when I uninstalled it. I'm sure there is some interesting stuff out there but personally I can't risk accidentally ending up in some very nasty places. Have a look but be warned if you don't want to see bad things, don't go there. What is shocking is how easy it is to get access to such things anonymously. I can imagine this is very hard to police, but maybe not impossible.

 

 

What did you enter in when you searched for interesting web sites?

 

The best advice is if you don't want to see stuff you don't like then don't search for it as its not automatically thrust in your face.

[Ghosthunter 10]

The safest way to view the Dark Web is to just turn the brightness down on your screen.

Then you can go as dark as your comfortable with.

[TimmyR 10]

What did you enter in when you searched for interesting web sites?

 

The best advice is if you don't want to see stuff you don't like then don't search for it as its not automatically thrust in your face.

 

I didnt search for "it". "It" was thrust in my face.

[melthebell 862]

I didnt search for "it". "It" was thrust in my face.

 

ooh er missus

[apelike 10]

I didnt search for "it". "It" was thrust in my face.

 

I use the Tor browser on occasions and that has never happened to me once.

 

Update:

 

Just opened Tor up and nothing was shown until I searched when I then had to enter a captca text. When I then did a search for "interesting web sites" it came up with around 290,000 links, so nothing is actually thrust in your face.

Edited August 4, 2015 by apelike

[Nagel 10]

The Dark Net is still the same old internet, it's just that servers and users are protected behind layers of anonymity provided by systems like the Tor browser. It is not just users machines but servers as well:

 

The Silk Road @ Wired.com - part 1

 

Allegedly the FBI added you on to a watch list if you were a regular reader of Linux Journal magazine Tor articles, yet I'd say you'd need to be a fairly regular Tor user to start getting your traffic intercepted and monitored. In the end almost everything is currently trackable over the web and encryption is the last line of defense but it might be worth checking out the developers of some of the popular encryption algorithms used before you start thinking your data is for your eyes only.

 

Tor (the Darknet browser) was developed by the US government and as far as I know is still largely funded by them.

 

They claim it's a useful way for dissidents from repressive regimes to communicate with the outside world. It's also said that groups against the US such as Islamic State use it so how it serves US interests to fund it is kind of mysterious.

 

Possibly the US has a back door into it, but most experts think not.

[kidley 48]

I go to countries where U.K radio is blocked, if i go on tor to circumvent this, uk radio requires javascript, which isnt an option on tor, any body any ideas?

[ShefStealth 10]

I go to countries where U.K radio is blocked, if i go on tor to circumvent this, uk radio requires javascript, which isnt an option on tor, any body any ideas?

 

Use your own home connection when you go out of the country - Get yourself a Raspberry Pi and utilise it as a VPN server, or if not then use SSH tunnelling. You'll then be able to use all the available UK services whilst you're out of the country, as to these UK services you'll appear to be sat at your own home connection.

[kidley 48]

Use your own home connection when you go out of the country - Get yourself a Raspberry Pi and utilise it as a VPN server, or if not then use SSH tunnelling. You'll then be able to use all the available UK services whilst you're out of the country, as to these UK services you'll appear to be sat at your own home connection.

 

Cheers ShefStealth, thats what i wanted to hear, Thanks allot:clap:

 

---------- Post added 09-08-2015 at 14:07 ----------

 

Just been on ebay and bought this so i should be ok.

 

SSH, the Secure Shell : The Definitive Guide, Loukides, Mike Book Book.

[ShefStealth 10]

Hmm, think you might have misunderstood my last, Kidley. Sorry, I should have been a little clearer, but I was using it as a jumping off point for you to research from.

 

Whichever way you do it, you'll need a 'service' of some description based in the country that you're wanting to appear to be from. In your instance, it should be quite straightforward as you've already got internet presence in your own home country (i.e the UK) I'm assuming that you're using home broadband of some description and not just connecting via 3/4g at home.

 

You'll need to have your 'service' (server) at home powered up so that you can connect to it when you're abroad or elsewhere than home - for this reason, I'd suggest Raspberry Pi due to it's ultra-low power draw (think the equivalent of charging a mobile phone) When you're abroad then you connect to your home server (in this example, Raspberry Pi) with either a VPN (OpenVPN is free) or alternatively an SSH tunnel (research SSH Socks proxy. You can use PuTTY on Windows to set up your SSH tunnel client side to your Pi Server)

 

Once you've got this set up, you can also use it to give you the added benefit of secure internet connectivity at unsecured Wi-Fi locations, such as in hotels and coffee shops so that you're less prone to your data being packet sniffed i.e your data across the local connection becomes encrypted back to your home connection, so if anyone packet sniffs your Wi-Fi data then they'll only pick up encrypted data that they shouldn't be able to do much with. The only drawback in tunnelling back to your own home connection may be your home connection's upload rate may be restrictive, especially if you're on standard ADSL.

 

If you don't want to get into the realms of setting up a service back to your home connection (the extra benefits of this is that you can be accessing files you've got at home, and that you don't have to be worrying about bandwidth unless you've got some sort of data cap on your home connection.) - Your other alternative to this is to purchase into a VPN service somewhere. If you chose to go down that route, you need to do some research as to what VPNs give you access to servers in what geolocation. Most are charged in US dollars, some have bandwidth allowance.

[Nagel 10]

a documentary about this is coming this year, with Keanu Reeves being the commentator (or Neo if you please)

 

The documentary is already out and it's legitimately available for free online -

 

http://movienight.ws/deep-web-2015/

 

 

Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. The film explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance. In addition to being the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web features the core architects of the Deep Web; anarchistic cryptographers who developed the Deep Web’s tools for the military in the early 1990s; the dissident journalists and whistleblowers who immediately sought refuge in this seemingly secure environment; and the figures behind the rise of Silk Road, which combined the security of the Deep Web with the anonymity of cryptocurrency.