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Do yourself a favor and demystify the dark web for yourself. Some of the best information is exclusively nestled in forums and marketplaces over there. If you
by vmception 5y ago
Do yourself a favor and demystify the dark web for yourself.
Some of the best information is exclusively nestled in forums and marketplaces over there.
If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else.
- scyzoryk_xyz 5y agoI’m interested - how do I find it? Is there a guide? List of places to visit?
- vmception 5y agoTypically over a Tor circuit I visit dark.fail and then switch to the onion url so that exit nodes arent being used Onion addresses frequently change so no use bookmarking them Dark.fail lists a variety of forums, marketplaces, marketplaces with forums, and their current addresses and whether those sites are up or down It also has links to a variety of mainstream media news sources and various government resources that you can browse on native onion routes Dread is the biggest forum, reddit clone. A variety of subreddits to hang out in and chat. It is often down though, at least compared to modern clearnet services.
- dewey 5y agoYou said that "Some of the best information" is on there. What would be an example of that? Every time when I was checking it out it was just marketplaces and otherwise just things I could find in the clearnet.
- vmception 5y agoA lot of times its in the marketplaces or their forums. I mentioned an example good for me in another comment
- ggerganov 5y agoCan you give a few examples of what sorts of information is best found in the dark web?
- vmception 5y agoTypically how to use Tor and general OPSEC For the longest time the best information obfs4 bridges (which are one step in masking Tor use to your network and ISP) was most easily found on the Dread forum there. Fortunately TailsOS uses bridges by default now. But when troubleshooting on clearnet I typically only found out of date stuff on the Tor subreddit. Was useful and better for me.
- zepto 5y ago> If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else. People who rely on an incentive model only are typically psychopaths or sociopaths. What you are saying is that Darknet has no mechanism for policing sociopaths, and therefore is likely to attract them.
- vmception 5y agoWhich has nothing to do with you or any specific persons use of onion services
- zepto 5y ago> Which has nothing to do with you or any specific persons use of onion services A false statement. Anyone choosing to use such services should be mindful of the fact that the services are appealing to sociopaths and have no policing mechanism.
- vmception 5y agoEverything is appalling to sociopaths, the whole concept is that they blend in to places that do have a policing mechanism And so by proxy you’re trying to shoehorn a boogeyman into a benign technology, pick a different thread there are plenty to fearmonger over the dark web
- zepto 5y agoIncorrect. In places where there is a policing mechanism they moderate their behavior, and so do less harmful things. Where there is not, they do not have to. > into a benign technology It’s not benign. It’s unpoliced, so sociopaths have no disincentives.
- vmception 5y agoHow would you like people that aren't sociopaths to behave there differently? Be more self sufficient? Not believe everything written on the internet? This is a thread about an arbitration court what do you think people need to browse onion services? Is there any specific PSA in your post?
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- MetaWhirledPeas 5y agoI'm curious about the dark web like I am with a lot of technology, but I've always been subject to a (perhaps self-imposed) chilling effect where I fear being "marked" simply for researching the tools. Am I just being paranoid/chicken?
- vmception 5y agoI would say chicken. There’s lists for everything. You’re afraid of lists and havent articulated the consequences.
- IAmGraydon 5y agoI have little doubt that my ISP logs each time I connect to Tor. What happens to this information from that point? Who knows. I won't live in fear, as that is the same thing as oppression, only self-imposed.
- conductr 5y agoI'd imagine you're also on some NSA lists. Depending on what's going on around you and what else you've done within the profile they've built for you they may be surveilling you a bit closer than they otherwise would be.
- qball 5y agoYou're already on the list for visiting and contributing to a site called "Hacker News".
- typon 5y agoTried it. Found mostly junk information and terrible people. Not worth the effort and time tbh
- moneywoes 5y agoIf I have a brown name won’t I just be screwing myself visiting the dark web
- vmception 5y agoI know the theoretically most privileged people in the US that are afraid of googling the tor browser for download Its completely diluted, just assume all the “dark scary web” rhetoric is a psyop perpetuated the intelligence agencies themselves
- pvarangot 5y agoWhat information? The only thing I can think it's easier to find on the Dark Web than on the open web is illegal drug prices and shitty grey hat software, because like you can't check ebay or Amazon for those. Everything else I found at least from the wikis and link sites was conspiracy bullshit or porn.