Computers & Internet Silk Road

[Stratton_Gun]

follow these steps to fully protect yourself should you browse the deep web.

http://www.cyberguerrilla.info/?p=3322

I dont think I will actually go on. The risks outwigh the benefits since I will just be browsing. But it would be interesting nonetheless. So is Tor part of the deep web or not?

 

[edgie]

Anything other than drug trade and child pr0n going on in these places? Sounds interesting about from those 2 topics

 

[checkraiseulite]

credit card numbers...identity information... killers for hire... lots of pirated software and media.

 

[Ed_Gein]

haha sounds incredibly interesting. although i couldn't be arsed setting myself up to browse anonymously on there, so i probably wouldn't risk giving it a go.

 

[edgie]

I'm using my mums work laptop as my computer has shat itself, and her work is in a school office... so I better not try and set this stuff up till I get my computer sorted out. Hopefully the thread isn't locked or deleted!

 

[nicky]

I'm going to have to try something from silk road. What a great site.

 

[d0gs]

Been wanting to try to access the Deep Web for a while now, but considering my laptop has no Antivirus, Firewall or Backup its not the wisest decision to make. Will probably give it a crack when its protected. Will document how I go as well.

 

[LadyPants]

There's no search engine as such, is there?

Not really, but there are quite a few sites that just have huge lists of links. The problem with that is they don't always say what site they link to so if you're at all paranoid it'd be better to stick to the basics.

Anything other than drug trade and child pr0n going on in these places? Sounds interesting about from those 2 topics

I'd say that those are probably the 2 biggest 'attractions' but weapons, hitmen and bank accounts are pretty popular.

 

[funk44]

might buy a 2nd hand el cheapo laptop and give this a crack, sounds very interesting

 

[Big Jono]

I have been on the deep web a bit but it is incredibly slow and its frustrating trying to find working links to anything interesting that you cant go to jail for.

As far as silk road goes, yes you wont get tracked or caught buying drugs from it but you still have to get it delivered somewhere and if it gets picked up on the way in (luck of the draw) the address it is getting sent to is going to get a knock on the door. You probably wont get charged with anything as they cant prove you knew these drugs were being sent to you but have no doubt it will be noted down somewhere and next time you go through customs or similar they will be able to see it on the screen.

This happened to a friend of mine, 5 years after someone in London (he had no idea about it) sent some ecstasy pills to his house he got a strip search at customs and awhole bunch of questions about it.

 

[nicky]

There is a guy from holland who has incredible feedback on his ecstacy.

 

[funk44]

i dont want to buy any drugs or anything im just interested to see what is on there

is it safe to go there just to browse without going through the long process of making yourself completely anon?

 

[Rustin Cohle]

You can't browse without Tor.

 

[The Passenger]

The thing is, it's not actually completely anonymous. People have been tracked. Anonymous got the details of thousands of people on a child pornography website. It's not foolproof. And additionally, I'd be worried that the authorities could see that I'm using Tor: And I mean, won't that be undeniable suss? I dunno, I just don't know how anyone can use it.

definately this.

though tor browser preaches anonymity, it's been shown plenty of times that there are people out there who are good enough to breach it.

it's also correct that when you use tor you leave entry and exit nodes (log in and log off) which are easily tracked... what you actually do once aside is not so easy to track, but as has been said can be tracked by people smart enough.

there are legimiate uses to the deep web. there's plenty of programming forums which i was using when i was in uni... mainly just set up by kiddy hackers who are trying to be L337 and say they had a web-site set up on the deepweb...

I dont think I will actually go on. The risks outwigh the benefits since I will just be browsing. But it would be interesting nonetheless. So is Tor part of the deep web or not?

You can't browse without Tor.

as above SG....

Tor browser is simply a browser which allows you to access the deep web...

most (possibly all, i'm not sure) deep web sits have a .onion extension.... the "url" is usually just a jumble of characeters.... i.e. oivoiquvkliuucoiv.onion

there is a hidden wiki which is enough to find the address to with a google search.... this has lots of links on it, all are pretty self explanatory with the ones you'd wanna see....

but the vast majority of sites are unadvertised so you would need to know the address of the site rather than actively searching for it.

this is where the internet filter that was talked about fails because it won't block access to any of this... and if you were an organisation getting up to no good that needed a web presence, obviously you don't go around advertising it... so the people that need the web address, would have it....

 

[The Passenger]

also worth reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknesses

 

[funk44]

had a peek, absolutely amazing that you can buy that kinda shit on the internet and its fairly easy to find. hidden wiki is worth a look if you get on it as well

ive had my fun.

Uninstalled

 

[A Swallow]

Just had a bit of a look around on it. The TOR browser is really slow, obviously browsing through a great deal more data than the regular everyday internet. Had a look at "Silk Road" and a few other things. Pretty amazing, glad I checked it out.

 

[nicky]

Just had a bit of a look around on it. The TOR browser is really slow, obviously browsing through a great deal more data than the regular everyday internet. Had a look at "Silk Road" and a few other things. Pretty amazing, glad I checked it out.

Did you do anything to protect your computer first? Is that really necessary?

 

[alfy!]

Yes and yes. At the very least read the rest of this thread.

 

[The Passenger]

The TOR browser is really slow, obviously browsing through a great deal more data than the regular everyday internet.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/why-tor-is-slow

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/roadmaps/2009-03-11-performance.pdf

its a bit old but i imagine the reasons are still the same

 

[A Swallow]

Did you do anything to protect your computer first? Is that really necessary?

While the TOR browser provides a form of anonymity, I wouldn't be simply logging in and checking out hired killer adverts and drug-ring idea websites in a hurry. You can't just "google" a website or subject anyway, you need to know what you're looking for, as the urls are all scrambled numbers and digits.

 

[d0gs]

How many proxies are you blokes running when you browse it?

 

[edgie]

I seriously doubt the weapons could be sold around Australia, surely it can't be that easy

 

[J_Moore]

This deep web business is great. The colonial frontier of our age. Scares the beejeezus out of me a bit, though, the nonsense that's apparently on there. The a- and immoral shit people will get up to given the cloak of anonymity. Wow. It's not really a rabbit hole I want to stick my head into.

I assume since squares like me know about it now, all the activity has moved elsewhere. It's been very high-profile for the past couple of months, hasn't it (or maybe it's just a case of me noticing it more)?

 

[J_Moore]

it's also correct that when you use tor you leave entry and exit nodes (log in and log off) which are easily tracked... what you actually do once aside is not so easy to track, but as has been said can be tracked by people smart enough.

Governments & police have started setting up exit nodes of their own, correct (at least according to some guy on reddit)?

I don't fully know what means, but I assume it means they're running the cloak room where you pick up your mask, so to speak.