Dark Net

Indeed so a black market. More illegal activity. Has anyone got any examples for legal use for the dark net or deep net or what ever you want to call it?
 
I would not even know where to look for it, or how to get on it. Mind you I would not want to go on it, do people get tracked going onto it ? Sounds a little sinister....
 
The internet that most people use is a fraction of what is available on the Dark Net- a bit like the tip of an iceberg.

Finding it is easy. Google is your friend.
Is there any real point in using it? probably not.
 
kendo1 said:
TOR is not as secure/anonymous as you are led to believe.
It seems likely that about 25% of TOR traffic goes through links controlled by the NSA and GCHQ, at any one time.

You'll no doubt have heard of the Silk Road being closed down, and other more unsavoury sites users being arrested.
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But the Silk Road arrest wasn't achieved by utilising a weakness of tor.


Here's a link to an interesting article I read recently

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...d-unmasked-by-rookie-goofs-complaint-alleges/
 
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It may not have been, that doesn't mean there is no way in. Quite number of criminal cases are closed through a possible pivot of the original approach.

Anyone got any legit reason for using this yet?
 
dejongj said:
It may not have been, that doesn't mean there is no way in. Quite number of criminal cases are closed through a possible pivot of the original approach.

Anyone got any legit reason for using this yet?
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Eg
  • Your physical location can be identified by your IP address. There are many reasons why you may not want your physical location publicised.
  • Companies may want to mask what they are searching for on the net if they believe what they are researching will tip off competitors.
 
Your physical address won't be available without a court order. And even then not to all really wouldn't it.

Whilst I agree with the latter one, we do that a lot to not leave/provide hints. However there are many way to do that. And surely you don't want be looking on the dark net. Hiding possible but not looking at sites that have been blocked.
 
dejongj said:
Your physical address won't be available without a court order. And even then not to all really wouldn't it.

Whilst I agree with the latter one, we do that a lot to not leave/provide hints. However there are many way to do that. And surely you don't want be looking on the dark net. Hiding possible but not looking at sites that have been blocked.
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While the exact address won't be revealed by the IP address, the approximate address will.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Ps these are reasons for using tor, not the darknet.
 
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Rapscallion said:
While the exact address won't be revealed by the IP address, the approximate address will.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Ps these are reasons for using tor, not the darknet.
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Exactly, on both counts :) And having been through it with an approximate location, following a personal event, working in collaboration with the police not able to get the exact address, and hand held scanning equipment couldn't get close enough it doesn't do that much really....Sure a ready TOR built may for some be an easy way of giving some comfort for perceived anonymity, one could look at it differently in that actually you are attracting attention as your appearance will be different and standing out...

However as you say...I get the reasons for using tor....Still would love to know what is there on what is here being called dark net, that is legit and requires use on a daily basis....It truly intrigues me and I thought it would be such a simple question to answer...I mean the media makes you lot all out to be p***'s, or terrorists, or anarchists, or drug dealers...Yet somehow it is being suggested here that there is something else worthwhile?
 
ChasG said:
Needs or wants - like spelling lessons?
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I've never needed to be ananononomynous about my crap speeling tho

like dejongi I'm struggling to think what you might want to access or a regular basis which would require an anonymiser and/or proxy , unless its ilegal
 
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