What Is The "Dark Web" ??

[billt]

Does anyone know about this? If you go on it will they show up with a battering ram to knock down your door? I heard you need a special "TOR" browser to even get on it. But you can't be traced. They say all types of illegal activity takes place on it, but it's not illegal to "browse" it. Is there anything worth looking at? I'm not tech savvy, so if it's too complicated, or a bunch of bull$h!t, I'll pass. I just wondered what it's all about?

[Majer]

First rule of the Dark web...NEVER talk about the Dark Web.
Best to stay away from it, Not a good place to go unless you have military grade anti hacking software.

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[Rastus]

Stay away from the dark web.  They can hack your brain through your monitor or keyboard.          It will change you into something horrible...maybe something like this:

[Big Frank]

It always sounded to me like you can buy illegal drugs, weapons of mass destruction, sex slaves, or anything else you want on the dark web. If you're going to hire a hit-man online, not a great idea, the dark web is the place to go.

[billt]

What made me ask about this, was I watched a crime show yesterday afternoon, and there was a young hacker who was working with some guy from Bosnia on some kind of credit card information scheme. He had gotten caught by the government breaking into NASA's computer a few years earlier, and the Secret Service actually hired him, and promised to drop all charges if he was willing to show them how he did it.

Naturally he did, but he couldn't stay straight for long. He made millions of dollars with this Bosnian guy on this credit card money transfer scheme, before they finally caught up with him. He was only 26 years old, and he had a big Tupperware tub buried in his parents backyard with over $1 million dollars in it. They said he conducted all of his transactions on the "Dark Web", which is why the government had such a difficult time tracing everything to him. But over time they obviously managed.

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[bulldog75]

Bitcon. If the site wants you to pay with bitcon it is more than likely a Dark Web service. Think of the internet as a ice berg. Top of the iceberg what sticks out of the water is regular internet. Military, banking industry is under the water line uses a crypto which is just under the water line that no one sees. The dark web is at the bottom. 

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

The "Dark Web" should really be called the undocumented web.
There is nothing really special about it other than the IP addresses of the various sites are not published anywhere and they purposely keep themselves out of various search engines.

Most people will also use some sort of masking software or browser to gain access to them. The most popular of these is called TOR short for "The Onion Router". Hundreds of thousands of users have set up TOR routers around the world. The TOR web browser will connect to this network of routers that will "route" that connection through numerous random routes making them virtually imposable to be traced. (although I now think the U.S. government has the ability to do so to some extent) There is no search engine for the dark web so to get to any particular site you HAVE to know it's I.P. address and the only way you can get that is by word of mouth.

At least this is how I understand it.

[Big Frank]

Your credit card information can be bought there for $20 if your account is hacked or your card lost, etc. Everything has a price, and it's all right under our noses but we can't see it.