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Dark Web Map
- swarnie_ 9y agoWait until after work to take a look at this one. Even before you agree to the disclaimer a lot of enterprise filters will alert based on the description of the content it hasn't loaded.
- commandlinefan 9y ago... if it's still even up by then. Things like this tend to disappear pretty fast.
- esseti 9y agothe intresting stuff is on the side ;) (looking at the map it seems to be a 90-ish version of the internet made by wiredo)
- jstanley 9y agoThe disclaimer didn't make it clear (I thought it would just be showing hostnames), but this map shows screenshots of hidden service home pages. So it's probably wise not to look closely at too many.
- SlowRobotAhead 9y agoThey say they removed a small number, I’d like to know how many, because scanning over quickly I didn’t see even remotely as much porn as I expected. This is a scan of front pages, but still.
- Grollicus 9y agoYou can't track people via tor so why spend a lot of bandwidth? There aren't many altruistic people in the tor sphere.
- gremy0 9y ago> Each site is represented in the map as a screenshot, and > The Dark Web Map contains uncensored content from thousands of dark web sites. You thought the (onion) hostnames would be considered uncensored content? and that this required a disclaimer? and > These sites include mature and/or offensive content, including pornography, violence, and racism. and > By clicking the "Accept" button, you are affirming that you are at least 18 years old and accept all responsibility for viewing this content.
- matte_black 9y agoWhy on earth would they think posting uncensored screenshots from the dark web would be a good idea? When browsing the dark web you should always be going in with images turned off, before you run into child porn at work and end up in prison.
- always_good 9y agoBecause it's the only reason the project is somewhat interesting.
- anc84 9y agoThat is very hard to navigate and slow to render. I suggest you simply use standard image tiling via https://www.maptiler.com/ https://www.maptiler.com/ or something similar.
- philfrasty 9y agoThis one site says if I give them 1 Bitcoin I will make 350% profit in 48 hours...Bernie Madoff approves
- blackflame7000 9y agoIf he's not a Nigerian, I'd be careful. It's possible he's not insured by a recent family inheritance.
- iooi 9y agoThis looks ominous, anyone have any ideas on how to solve the puzzle? https://imgur.com/XXpyoqW https://imgur.com/XXpyoqW
- yorwba 9y agoThe table made me suspect that a Vigenère cipher was involved, but none of the obvious key/value combinations seem to yield anything intelligible.
- JKCalhoun 9y agoI see the word "STU". Anyone else get that far?
- reaperducer 9y ago"NO"
- esnard 9y agoIdeas: - The "vbizukfplsqf...." is not part of the puzzle - The original website is available at https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion/ https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion/ - The page title is "Caesar Was Rome's 2nd Emperor", hinting to Caesar cipher - In a HTML comment: "kcovjgfktgevgf" which is "I am the directed" encrypted via Caesar cipher - In a HTML comment: "6e6f71696e796c6e646e7179736d77666163766a7272666a0a" which is the hexadecimal for "noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n" - The image is named "vigenere.png", hinting to Vigenere cipher
- BlackLotus89 9y agoThe solution is > endofthelinenineninenine every one of your obervations was correct (btw I got to know the tabula recta as vigenere square [1]) kcovjgfktgevgf was the key for noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n (and \n is indeed endoftheline) I used an online vigenere chiffre "applet" (ok it is javascript so not really an applet but who cares) and I got an off by one (just define the alphabet as bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza or use jbnuifejsfdufe as the key) PS. Without tor you can use [3] and thx for making me waste that 5 minutes :D it was fun [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta [2] https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher [3] https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link
- mlamat 9y agoHow can I get the full link address?
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoYou can't. Creator intentionally crippled HSDirs for "reasons".
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoSO, that's annoying and pretty pointless. I can't search the HSDir names or the related content per page. I have to manually and visually look at a map. I was curious if my services were on there, as I run quite a few HSDirs. But no way I'm going to look at every image. This would have been interesting if they either released the data or make the content searchable. Oh well.
- nawtacawp 9y agoHow do you think they got this data? It appears more than just hidden wiki entries.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoAny bridge can see announced HSDirs communicating to it. So technically you can be a bridge and save all HSDirs that are being passed. This will get your bridges banned by Tor IF they know you're doing that. So the ones who do, stay quiet about it. I'd give it 3 days before their bridge is distrusted and revoked.
- Red_Tarsius 9y agoI found the screenshot of a hitmen-for-hire service. https://imgur.com/a/6vfcx https://imgur.com/a/6vfcx I wish users could share the coordinates of any item in the map. But it's a really fascinating work. Kudos to the creators!
- andrewla 9y agoIf there's one thing I've learned from watching true crime stories, it's that there are no actual contract killers, only US Marshals posing as them.
- jlg23 9y agoIf there's one thing I've learned from travelling the world: There are contract killers and they can be had for very little money. Where I currently live you could get away with murder for 1 to 10k - depending on who you know. The US are no exception.
- lossolo 9y agoI think what OP means is that it's very hard to find contract killers online, as most of them are police officers.
- joejerryronnie 9y agoIf there's one thing I've learned through many years of human contact: if you need a thing done, you methodically plan it out, do it by yourself, and don't tell anyone.
- andrepd 9y agoIs it me or is that an easy way to make money? Create a "murder-for-hire" website, or whatever illegal service you want, then disappear with the bitcoins.
- api 9y agoThat's called an exit scam, and they're pretty common in the dark market world from what I've heard.
- blackflame7000 9y agoIf an image containing illegal content is sent to the browser of an unsuspecting user, does that constitute a breach of the law? If a CDN goes rogue and suddenly starts pushing out child porn then is every person whos browser cached that image now guilty? What if they didn't even know it got cached? A very grey area with these sorts of things.
- nawtacawp 9y agoNot illegal: (d)Affirmative Defense.—It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of violating subsection (a)(5) that the defendant— (1) possessed less than three images of child pornography; and (2) promptly and in good faith, and without retaining or allowing any person, other than a law enforcement agency, to access any image or copy thereof— (A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such image; or (B) reported the matter to a law enforcement agency and afforded that agency access to each such image. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A Also, the main charge of possession is knowingly possessed
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- stordoff 9y agoThat may be the case in the US, but FWIW it is not necessarily true across jurisdictions. In the UK, for instance: > A person who views an image on a device which is then automatically cached onto its memory would not be in possession of that image unless it can be proved that he / she knew of the cache [...but...] the person would also have "made" the image in question. Subject to there being evidence of the act which constituted the making and the necessary mental element, an offence contrary to section 1 of the PCA 1978 is preferable and in most cases would suffice. [...] The charge of 'making' [has been] widely interpreted to cover such activities as opening attachments to emails and downloading or simply viewing images on the internet. Further note: > So, for example, in a "pop-up" case, it would have be to be proved [for the act of making] that suspect knew that accessing a website would generate "pop-ups" and that those "pop-ups" would depict, or be likely to depict, indecent images of children That is far shakier legal ground than I would like to be on, especially for readers of this thread who would presumably be aware of the cache and where it has been hinted that the images may contain at best questionable content. https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/indecent-images-children-iioc https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/indecent-images-childr...
- fimdomeio 9y agoI suppose it's a very small portion. either that or the dark web is really way smaller than I thought.
- nawtacawp 9y agoThe blog post states it is about 10% of the total sites.
- elorant 9y agoThanks but no thanks. The last thing I want for my Friday afternoon is to see a picture of an abused child or worse.
- wingworks 9y agoThey removed them from what I understood. It's mostly filled with prank sites.
- blattimwind 9y agoLooks like about 1/3 of everything are the equivalent of "It works!" pages (the huge white clusters and the large cluster of "You made a site on the dark side"). Doesn't mean that there is nothing to be accessed on those servers, though.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoWow, didn't realise the darkweb was so tiny.
- fmj 9y agoThey made this map by spidering public onion sites, so you're only seeing sites that were publicly linked to on a site they crawled. You could brute force the .onion address space to get a more accurate estimate of the number of onion sites currently online, but that would take a long time at the speed Tor operates.
- anamexis 9y agoThere are 2^80 possible onion addresses, so it would take a very, very long time at any speed.
- CognitiveLens 9y agoto get an estimate, you only need a sample
- TheRealPomax 9y agoThe irony being that they made a map of the dark web which contains almost no part of the dark web because they couldn't find it. I, too, can run wget pointed at an onion ring network, and it would be just as unimpressive a result as this ...
- kaennar 9y agoWhy does Indeed.com have a dark web site? Is there an advantage to that? I'm also surprised at the number of pun-sites/joke-sites on here. It's like the early internet.
- Freak_NL 9y agoA small oversight in the censoring of the onion addresses: some of the screenshots show websites that list the full address somewhere on it (e.g. 'gunbizme…').
- Freak_NL 9y agoAlso, some of the pages shown link to other (uncensored) onion addresses in the screenshot.
- donmcronald 9y agoThe censoring is not 100%. The map is cool, but there are definitely some thumbnails you don’t want in your browser cache.
- mancerayder 9y agoWhat makes it so hard for undercover agents to browse this stuff and make purchases of <insert illegal substance or act here> to nab the seller? Or set up fake services and nab buyers? It must be a mess. I can't see how people wouldn't be paranoid on here to the point of chilling it.
- coolspot 9y agoAFAIK sellers are dropping off packages at different mail offices so it is impossible to know ahead where seller sends from to make a trap. Buyers are at greater risk as their only option in case of trap is to deny it's their package.
- mirimir 9y agoUndercover agents can buy whatever they like. But smart sellers aren't so easy to identify. There's always a risk in mailing stuff, of course. But Bitcoin can be anonymized well enough. Buyers are more vulnerable. Many have stuff mailed to their actual addresses. Even if they pay with well anonymized Bitcoin. Some have stuff sent to places that are empty, where people are on vacation, or infirm, and so on. I haven't heard of fake markets. But investigators have taken over markets, and identified both sellers and buyers.
- mirimir 9y agoA search button would be cool. There used to be a cool site by Harry71 that listed all onion sites. But I suspect that it was trawling hidden service directories, which Tor Project frowns on.
- l0b0 9y agoThe most interesting thing about this was how the "map" part of it was completely irrelevant. From a quick scan every single large interconnected subgraph contained only completely or virtually identical sites.