Deep web - TOR

[JCKST1]

Hi,


Having a discussion with one of my friends today and he started talking about 'deep web' and a browser called TOR?

Having never even heard of this and he has only seen it briefly online what actually is it?
I have looked on Google but cant really get my head around it so can anyone explain in layman's terms what this all means?

It appears to be showing sites where you can buy guns, drugs etc online!!?

[Taita]

TOR will route your traffic through different places to help keep you anon. However lots of the endpoints (exit from TOR) are compromised etc.

Wiki is helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_networ...

Theres some sites on there that sell illegal stuff, but plenty of people just want to be anon.

[marshalla]

And there's a collection of sites which can only be accessed if you use the TOR browser. They don't respond the same way to normal browsers - if you can find them at all.

[Oakey]

Some say it's a honeytrap created by the NSA

[boxst]

Oakey said:

Some say it's a honeytrap created by the NSA

It's open source, so I don't think so. Perhaps some of the sites are on the other hand ...

I occasionally use it if I want to be anonymous (hide my IP), the search engines are a bit weird, and quite easy to come across dodgy stuff without realising it.

[clonmult]

Oakey said:

Some say it's a honeytrap created by the NSA

That is the sort of rumour that the NSA would promote to try and stop people from using it; reality is that the NSA can't (yet?) hack TOR aside from the previously mentioned end points.

[bitchstewie]

Google "Dread Pirate Roberts".

Tor is great until you have the drugs shipped to your fking home address

[dudleybloke]

Because something funded by the us navy couldn't possibly have any backdoors hidden.

[TheExcession]

dudleybloke said:

Because something funded by the us navy couldn't possibly have any backdoors hidden.

ssh us_navy@tor 
...tap tap tap....
sudo vi httpd.conf ...tap tap tap....
/CustomLog
i
...tap tap tap....
#CustomLog logs/access_log common
ESC
/ErrorLog
i
...tap tap tap....
#ErrorLog logs/error_log
ESC
:
wq

sudo service apache[2] restart

Sorted. That'll show 'em!

[jbudgie]

The only thing to use if you want drugs, guns or a contract killer .


http://thehiddenwiki.org/

[JCKST1]

Downloaded TOR and had a look at a few sites... Holy Sh*t! absolutely crazy.

How can you actually buy and receive these drugs? Surely they would get stopped in transit.
Also buying a hit-man for $10,000 USD. This stuff serious?

[z4RRSchris99]

few mates use it for drugs. works well

[Conor D]

JCKST1 said:

Downloaded TOR and had a look at a few sites... Holy Sh*t! absolutely crazy.

How can you actually buy and receive these drugs? Surely they would get stopped in transit.
Also buying a hit-man for $10,000 USD. This stuff serious?

To be fair I'm sure you can access equally suspect sites using a standard web browser. TOR itself is nothing more than a wed browser that encrypts web traffic/enables access to encrypted sites.

It's the websites such as Silk Road, The Marketplaces etc that cannot be accessed through a normal browser that people are normally referring to.

https://news.vice.com/article/silk-road-may-have-a...

With Bitcoin, Address Encryption/Scramblers and many UK sellers I think it's supposed to work (I have no personal experience with it). Apparently vacuum sealing/very conspicuous packaging and internal/unrecorded UK mail means packages do get through.

I find it hard to believe that they do get through without even being scanned, never mind inspected or opened.

EDIT: Spelling

[Alucidnation]

Bit late, but BBC2 now about this

[Conor D]

Alucidnation said:

Bit late, but BBC2 now about this

Very interesting! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo 'Inside the Dark Web'.

[steve_bmw]

Downloaded tor, had a look, very interesting, I kept checking my ip location and I have been all over the word on unnamed proxies.
Had a look at some guns, drugs and even a hit man.
I did watch horizon on BBC 2 and had to have a look.

[FlossyThePig]

Conor D said:

Alucidnation said:

Bit late, but BBC2 now about this

Very interesting! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo 'Inside the Dark Web'.

My son's father-in-law is an ICANN key holder.