The Dark Web

[BuccaneerBrad]

After a few discussions with my friends, I installed a TOR Browser on my computer and took a peek at a few dark web sites.  It's definitely a scary place.  You can buy legitimate stuff on there at amazing prices, but you can also buy legitimate but unlawful stuff.  Everything you buy, you pay for with Bitcoin. 

Have any of you guys checked out the Dark Web?

[Phishfan]

No interest. I buy my illegal items the old fashioned way, real money exchanged face to face with outlaws I trust 

[CF DolFan]

No interest. I buy my illegal items the old fashioned way, real money exchanged face to face with outlaws I trust 

Hahaha ... probably much safer that way. Fortunately the only illegal items I buy are fireworks and they are now legal in Florida for us farmers protecting our crops from varmints! haha

I always wondered how you even find such a place. Seems like if it was that easy to get to then it's not much of a secret or safe place.

[Sunstroke]

The normal internet seems dark enough for me most of the time...no need to take it to the next level.

[Pappy13]

The normal internet seems dark enough for me most of the time...no need to take it to the next level.

I second this.

[pondwater]

After a few discussions with my friends, I installed a TOR Browser on my computer and took a peek at a few dark web sites.  It's definitely a scary place.  You can buy legitimate stuff on there at amazing prices, but you can also buy legitimate but unlawful stuff.  Everything you buy, you pay for with Bitcoin. 

Have any of you guys checked out the Dark Web?

I already have TOR installed. The internet seems to work the same. Is there something special you need to do? What kind of legitimate stuff at what prices. Seems to me that if you pay in Bitcoin there is nothing you can do if your stuff never arrives. Maybe I'm missing something...

[DaLittle B]

I 3rd what Stroke says...I have enough nervousness,about crap I buy on Ebay,and the few Chinese sites I've bought from in the past.

You can buy things on the normal internet with bitcoin,and use tor on the normal internet...Sooooo

I'm am more curious what you're trying to buy?

*(insert your own Mail order bride,hookers,viagra,sex toys, jokes here)

[masterfins]

I don't know where to find the Dark Web, and that's probably a god thing. 

[BuccaneerBrad]

I 3rd what Stroke says...I have enough nervousness,about crap I buy on Ebay,and the few Chinese sites I've bought from in the past.

You can buy things on the normal internet with bitcoin,and use tor on the normal internet...Sooooo

I'm am more curious what you're trying to buy?

*(insert your own Mail order bride,hookers,viagra,sex toys, jokes here)

You can buy all the things you mentioned in parentheses, not to mention drugs, weapons, fake IDs, fake passports, counterfeit money, etc......   

I already have TOR installed. The internet seems to work the same. Is there something special you need to do? What kind of legitimate stuff at what prices. Seems to me that if you pay in Bitcoin there is nothing you can do if your stuff never arrives. Maybe I'm missing something...

TOR will work on normal sites as well, but with TOR, you can go to the .onion sites which are where the Dark Web lies.  The whole point of TOR is that it scrambles and layers your IP address so that they have to peel back layers to find where you really are, and by the time they get halfway done, you're off the web.  Hence it's the Dark Web.  A lot of people in totalitarian countries use it so the government can't track them.

[Tenshot13]

It's called the Dark Web because you can't access those sites through normal means and need a TOR browser.  They are still part of the internet, you just can't google and get there, thus Dark Web. 

That's great it scrambles your IP and all, but when you downloaded TOR, you were already flagged, at least that's what most believe.  There isn't anything wrong with having a TOR browser, but I wouldn't risk someone keeping tabs on me.  I can get everything I need off a normal browser, and I want to keep my Bitcoins so I never saw a need for it.

[BuccaneerBrad]

It's called the Dark Web because you can't access those sites through normal means and need a TOR browser.  They are still part of the internet, you just can't google and get there, thus Dark Web. 

That's great it scrambles your IP and all, but when you downloaded TOR, you were already flagged, at least that's what most believe.  There isn't anything wrong with having a TOR browser, but I wouldn't risk someone keeping tabs on me.  I can get everything I need off a normal browser, and I want to keep my Bitcoins so I never saw a need for it.

There also isn't anything wrong with searching the sites that sell illegal products as long as you don't buy anything.   

[Phishfan]

Window shopping on the dark web. I have lived long enough I guess 

[Tenshot13]

I've heard enough stories about Silkroad, don't need to check it out myself.

[Dave Gray]

I don't fully understand the dark web, honestly.  How do you find websites?  Are there even websites?

[pondwater]

There also isn't anything wrong with searching the sites that sell illegal products as long as you don't buy anything.   

Maybe not illegal stuff. But I could see buying grey market items that are tough to find otherwise.

I don't fully understand the dark web, honestly.  How do you find websites?  Are there even websites?

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. How do you find what you're looking for?