Creating crime to solve it
The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites
A bit back, I decided to try TOR and see what it was all about. It was mostly like going back to the internet in the days of geocities, only with more cussing. And any link on there had about a 20% of going some place, most didn’t work. I never once saw any thing promoting child porn, murder for hire, or all the other OOGA BOOGA you tend to get when someone says “dark web”. Of course, I wasn’t looking for any of that stuff either. But that’s how the internet portrays what goes on there. And the websites that deal in guns didn’t work. Mostly, the sites were link farms with links to other things that didn’t work. I only surfed for about an hour or so. I don’t see the big deal. Or I’m missing something.
November 14th, 2016 at 5:43 pm
I wonder if Carlos Danger’s name and “profile” showed up on any of them.
November 17th, 2016 at 12:02 pm
I think you got led down the wrong path.
Tor is not a website – it’s a transport. Using the official Tor browser you can run around the web using its chain of blind proxies, and get to most every website out there (some track ‘exit nodes’ and block them). Technically you don’t even need to use their browser, but it’s the best bet unless you know what you are doing.
So if you saw “a bunch of links”, they were from a website, not “Tor the Transport”.
“Dark Web” is basically a combo of Tor (or similar) and private DNS servers. Perhaps you were looking at some search engine/website built around those private DNS setups?
Anyway, Tor still has value to avoid the commercial tracking out there. Just be patient because it isn’t exactly the swiftest mechanism, and most agree that it won’t stop nation-states from tracking you. Also, most financial websites block exit nodes (they are tracked by third-parties) to avoid fraud. So not everything would work as normal, all the time.
I only use it as part of my work in computer security, so don’t know much about how others use it.
November 17th, 2016 at 5:48 pm
That may be the case. I was aware that the links were from a website. But the alleged dark web didn’t seem like much more than anything on the regular web.