Dark Web?

[photon]

TOR and Bittorrent are similar in that they're distributed systems, though their intents are different. TOR is intended to provide anonymous communications, while Bittorrent files stored on a person's computer are transferred to other computers.

TOR can be used to view regular websites and Internet resources, the request will be made on the TOR network and then go through the network in such a way before it exits the network and becomes a regular request (to a website or whatever). In theory because it can't be determined the chain of TOR nodes the request went through, if someone is monitoring the resource to find out who is accessing it they can only tell it came from a TOR exit node.

[wwkayaker]

I was curious about the connection between Tor and Torrent since I have downloaded torrent files. I thought I may have unknowingly been accessing the deep web.

The program I watched last night made a connection between the illegal activities (drug sales in the show) and bitcoin for payment due to the anonymity. Bitcoin is another subject I have been learning about lately.

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

I was curious about the connection between Tor and Torrent since I have downloaded torrent files. I thought I may have unknowingly been accessing the deep web.

The program I watched last night made a connection between the illegal activities (drug sales in the show) and bitcoin for payment due to the anonymity. Bitcoin is another subject I have been learning about lately.

You have accessed the deep web many times in your life, as have we all. As mentioned though, deep web is not synonymous with the dark web. You were in the deep web, for example, the last time you logged into your personal banking page.

Getting onto the dark web is not difficult, but you can’t do it by accident either. Tor routing through the dark web is also notoriously slow because of the volunteer relays it goes through, and the majority of the sites on the dark web are very primitive- think 1990s internet. Most sites are likely created and hosted by a single user on a home computer- and they have to be functional with the slow Tor speeds.

[Thor]

But there is a great documentary on Netflix on just this subject

[getbak]

A couple of years ago, Wired had a good 2-part story on the rise and fall of the Silk Road: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

[wwkayaker]

I watched the Silk Road documentary and it was very interesting. It was ironic that Ulbricht had the vision to create the drug business yet was undone due to his digital footprint.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by getbak

A couple of years ago, Wired had a good 2-part story on the rise and fall of the Silk Road: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

That was a great read.

[Flabbibulin]

So the FBI seized 144,000 bitcoins from the Silk Road founder after his arrest. 28.5 million at the time, but would be about 2.4 billion US today.

[dobbles]

I made it to the gates of the dark web for work a couple months ago.

I took a new job this summer overseeing a large website and their site had been breached before I started. Long story short, there was tons of incompetence and the breach was still active. I spent several weeks reverse engineering the tools and in the source code were links to various sites and repositories. Some I could get to, some I could not. It was interesting. I am sure IT flagged my computer all sorts of ways!

I have since wiped my machine just to be safe

[kevman]

Originally Posted by Thor

But there is a great documentary on Netflix on just this subject

You learn something new everyday. I watched the documentary yesterday - very interesting!

I was already a proponent of the legalization of all drugs but that documentary helped strengthen my opinion.