This is how the internet used to work i.e. knowing where you were going.
Posted on 11/07/2014 2:38:07 PM PST by ConservingFreedom
Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.
The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines.
The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests, including Blake Benthall who is said to be behind Silk Road 2.0.
Experts believe the shutdown represents a breakthrough for fighting cybercrime.
Six Britons were also arrested, including a 20-year-old man from Liverpool, a 19-year-old man from New Waltham, a 30 year-old-man from Cleethorpes and a man and woman, both aged 58, from Aberdovey, Wales.
All were interviewed and bailed according to the National Crime Agency.
Tor, as well as hosting legitimate sites, is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in drugs, child abuse images as well as sites for extremist groups. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026989/an-up-to-date-laymans-guide-to-accessing-the-deep-web
http://www.sickchirpse.com/deep-web-guide/
I don’t think anyone proposed that.
Private communications will ALWAYS be used by criminals too.
Big Brother is flashing drugs, terrorists and kiddie porn across our screen. All to get people to accept a ban on Tor and require ID for anyone to communicate
if they find websites peddling that crap, they should find and nab them
Thanks. That’s some interesting stuff. I’ll explore there some.
Careful. The worst thing you have ever run across on the web is puppies and sunshine compared to what lurks on the dark side.
Ok, will be careful. I don’t do illegal drugs, wife won’t let me buy any more guns, have no interest in “straying”, don’t need to have someone killed (sheesh), would run far away from child porn, wouldn’t use stolen credit card info. But I get tired of the limited Google, Yahoo and Bing search results. Always felt there was “more” out there.
>> 400 sites and 17 arrests?
Prolly same group operating within a limited number of locations — though, “400” does give the impression of hundreds of physical locations.
You’ll need a Tor browser which you can download above and a guide to finding stuff on the deep web. I wish I could recommend one, but honestly, I haven’t found anything on the deep web that I thought was all that interesting. I checked out silk road (after it was brought down the first time) to see if I could find it, found the infamous page purporting to be a place to hire hitmen, but politicians were well out of my price range (Note: that is most definitely a joke, please don’t try to hire a hitman). But other than that, just to say I did it I didn’t do that much, it’s pretty much impossible to tell whats real and what’s a fantasy on the deep web. You have no idea who put these pages on the web, whether it was criminals, nerds trying to be unconventional, Satanists, people into “fetishes” (the last two seemed to have a lot of listings in the guide I looked at; I didn’t search for them), or the government trying to entrap people. It’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s a fantasy when you have no idea who’s running the site your looking at. It kind of put me off of exploring it further.
I suppose if I looked at it again, I’d probably look into how computer hackers do what they do. I have no intention of becoming one, but computer hacking, cyber-espionage, etc. are at the very least the sort of things that make me curious as to how these things are done.
Lastly, I definitely didn’t find any secret enclaves where conservatives hang out without having to worry about the watchful eye of the government. Bummer.
Thanks for the link. I’m betting the deep web is a lot less interesting today after the 400 sites were taken down.
Actually, the thing about the deep web that frustrates the government is that most of these sites will be back up (or ones just like them) in a couple days.
for later reading
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