Ive been reading up a lot on it lately and have to admit Im fascinated.....fascinated in the sense like I am about the mob or something....meaning I love learning about it but dont wanna actually get involved lol.

They say the part of the internet we're on now makes up abt 6% of the 'net, and the Deep web makes up the rest. In fact, you have to have a special browser to go there.....and then you can supposedly anonymously surf the world of illicit drugs, hitmen, and the like.....all the while trying to steer clear of, by most accts Ive read, major child pornography sites (which, admittedly, is the main reason keeping me from going there)

I guess its the allure of the unknown that has me interested. If youve been there, Id love to hear your stories. If you havent been there, I suggest googling it.....very interesting stuff.

@WalkSoftly: A few months ago I was searching something. And pics of half naked boys showed up with seemingly unrelated pics. No one could or would give me an explanation. But I think I figured it out. No way am I posting it. But I cleared and reset my phone. Which I had to call T-Mobile to do. I was mortified. !

Wow Ida been lookin over my shoulder for the FBI lol!

@WalkSoftly: I was freaked out & sick to my stomach.. And couldn't help but wonder if there would be a knock on the door.. I called T-Mobile & asked them what to do. The customer service guy said " no one ever asked him before "' . I asked for his supervisor. I was trying to do the right thing. got no where. I don't think they knew what to do or just didn't care. I even offered to turn in my phone & give all my information. And asked if there is an agency to call... & nothing

Heres a fairly decent primer on the Deep Web...

"" If you binge-watched the second season of
House of Cards, along with a reported 15%
of Netflix's 44 million subscribers, you may
be newly interested in the Deep Web. Slate
has done a good job of describing what the
Deep Web is and isn't, but they don't tell
you how to get there.
How To Access The Deep Web
First: the hot sheets. Subreddit forums for
DeepWeb, onions, and Tor are the way to go
in terms of gathering a backgrounder for
entry points into DarkNet. Unsurprisingly
though, much of the information currently
on the surface Internet about the actual
underbelly of the web is outdated. Ever
since Silk Road's takedown last year, the
Under-web has been changing.
To get into the Deep Web these days, you
first have to download the Tor add-on for
Firefox. By downloading the Tor Browser
Bundle from the Tor Project you are
securing your anonymity to browse, which is
the main draw for using Tor. Once you have
downloaded the browser bundle, Tor builds
a circuit of encrypted connections through a
randomized relay. In layman's terms that
means that your online activity is covered
as Tor randomly pings your IP address from
one place to the other, making whatever you
do less traceable.
Multiple Redditors urged reading the Tor
Project's warning page, where they
discourage Torrent file sharing and
downloading while using Tor. The idea is to
follow protocol maintaining your anonymity
while browsing, chatting, or navigating. This
obviously includes giving away your
personal information like email addresses,
phone numbers, names, time zones, or
home addresses in any context.
Other precautions include placing duct tape
on your webcam, enabling your computer's
firewall, and turning off cookies and
JavaScript. Again, here is where you want
to be completely free of an identity, so
treading cautiously is key. The NSA and
other government outlets peruse the Dark
Web and onion sites frequently using cross-
reference tools, malware, and remote
administration tools to de-anonymize users
engaging in illegal activity.
While the Deep Web houses the retail of
weapons, drugs, and illicit erotica, there are
also useful tools for journalists, researchers,
or thrill seekers. It's also worth noting that
mere access through Tor is not illegal but
can arouse suspicion with the law. Illegal
transactions usually begin on the Deep Web
but those transactions quite often head
elsewhere for retail, private dialoguing, or
in-person meetups; that's how most people
get caught by law enforcement officials.

Where To Go Once You're On
The Inside
After reading up on the material,
downloading Tor, and logging out of every
other application, you can finally open Tor's
Browser Bundle to begin secure navigation.
Network navigation is slow once you are
inside because of the running relay, so
expect pages to load at a snail's pace.
The most common suggestion on Reddit is
to start at the "Hidden Wiki." The Hidden
Wiki has a similar interface as Wikipedia
and lists by category different sites to
access depending on your interest.
Categories include: Introduction Points,
News/History, Commercial Services,
Forums/Boards/Chans, and H/P/A/W/V/C
(Hack, Phreak, Anarchy, Warez, Virus,
Crack) just to name a few. Under each of
these headings are multiple sites with an
onion address and a brief description of
what you will find there.
Many of the listed sites on the Hidden Wiki
though have been taken down. Deep Web
Tor, Tor Jump, Tor Answers, and Tor.info
were all busts. When the feds took down
Silk Road, many other sites also fell victim
and/or are currently down for maintenance.
Still, gun, drug, and child porn marketplaces
operate even though they are on much
smaller scales and with a fraction of the
reach than that of Silk Road or Atlantis,
another drug-peddling site.
Some pages are less nefarious, but arouse
your curiosity nonetheless. StaTors.Net is
the Twitter for Tor users and Hell Online is
the antisocial network with 369 members
and 15 different groups. Torchan resembles
Reddit, though you need to enter the
username and password torchan2 for
access, and is still up and running. But
recent activity except in Request and
Random rooms has all but stopped.
In the Random room a user asked for a new
link to Silk Road and the responses were
limited. Another user posting an image of a
child fully clothed featuring bare feet
pleading for a site featuring underage bare
feet. An Anonymous user responded:
"Someone please give this guy a link, this
poor guy has been looking/asking for over
a month now."
Galaxy is a great forum for networking with
fellow users by joining groups but activity
there seems to be on the decline. The
Ultimate Tor Library is still up, but an
enormous red warning on the page reads:
WEBSITE SEIZED BY HOMELAND SECURITY
AND THE OTHER LE THUGS." I clicked on
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison but a
warning popped up advising against
downloading the PDF followed by a second
warning, so I chose to opt out before
attracting some sort of vulnerability.
The DeepWeb Link Directory in the site
OnionDir had some promising hyperlinks
and some not-so-promising ones like the
now defunct Deep Web Radio and a blog
claiming to be a Deep Web blog but was
actually just stories dedicated to spanking.
The New Yorker Strongbox is a secure
transmission for writers and editors where I
was given the code name: riddle yeah
abreacts murgeoning. Through a given
codename you can submit a message and/
or file to the New Yorker's editorial staff.
Mike Tigas, a news application developer
for ProPublica, has a functioning blog in
the Deep Web but has not posted anything
new for some time, which was true for many
other blogs as well.

New Sites To Explore
Reddit user NekroTor is on a quest to
reboot many of the Freedom Hosting sites
that were taken down. On February 16th of
this year, on his onion-routed blog,
Nekrotown, he wrote, "2 days ago the
BlackMarket Reloaded forum got seized. On
the same day, the long-awaited Utopia
Market was seized, which just goes to show
that all the markets ****ing suck these days
except for Agora and TMP, and that you
should just wait until BlackMarket Reloaded
opens up again... eventually ... 5 years later,
no BMR ."
NekroTor is correct in writing that most of
the content right now on the Dark Web is
not that great. On top of the fact that there
used to be a wealth of sites for illegal black
market interactions, there also used to be
radio, books, blogs, political conversations,
and even an Encyclopedia Dramatica that
was a satirical culture-based wiki and is
now laden with porn and pop-ups.
NekroTor created a new version of Hidden
Wiki that has some functional links to audio
and video streaming as well as some up-to-
date forums for socializing and buying and
selling. There are still a few image boards
left, but the popular Onii-chan has the
words "Well be back later" typed over
spinning dildos.

Redditors Who Are Reaching Out
For Deep Web Direction
After watching House of Cards, user
TrelianScar turned to Reddit for guidance
on how to navigate the Dark Web.
TrelianScar is not alone. The Deep Web is
making appearances in the media, in dinner
conversations, and of course on Internet
forums. One user jokingly writes to
TrelianScar saying, "Wait till we send you
an iPad. Then talk to the Dutch oil
painting. Then await instructions,"
referencing HOC's unrealistic depiction of
Deep Web interactions.
On a more serious note though, user
Serbia_Strong writes, "What are you looking
for first of all? Drugs? Guns? Assassins?
Credit cards or counterfeit cash? I'd start
your journey at the Hidden Wiki and then
narrow in on your interests. I pretty much
save every site I come across (you can't
exactly just google them). Start at The
Hidden Wiki and if you need any links just
ask. Enjoy your descent into madness :)"
Another user, Dexter-Del-Rey explained a
similar conundrum last week-- he too is new
to the Deep Web and wants some functional
starter links. Redditor Ampernand writes
back saying, "On the topic of torchan...
here's a good piece on how it fell authored
by the previous host. Currently torchan is
hosted by someone that allows cp, gore etc,
censors critics and doesn't give a flying
**** about the community. Effectively
torchan has become exactly what it was
trying to not be. Also, nntpchan is better."
Ampernand links to NNTP-chan, which is a
new forum replacing the image board Onii-
chan.
New channels are popping up daily in the
Deep Web. Currently, marketplace
alternatives to Silk Road, Agora and
Pandora are the most frequented.
Nonetheless, both TrelianScar and Dexter-
Del-Rey were each respectively warned in
their threads that the Dark Web is chock-
full of scammers and is quite unlike its
Hollywood depiction.""
Link.

Yes i've been on the deep web before , mostly just to snoop around sites like pink meth which i mentioned on here before , and to browse the silk road website where you can anonymously buy or sell any illegal or legal drug you want , or do other illegal activity using the untraceable bitcoin currency , not that i've actually ever bought or sold anything on there though lol

and as for child porn and the like , well i've never seen any on the deep web , although apparently the deep web is full of it , but if you dont go looking for the stuff then your not gonna find it because nothing on the deep web is indexed like the way google does it so you would need to follow a specific link or know the exact web address in order to find it , a bigger problem for normal users of the deep web would be hackers and stuff ,

you need the Tor browser to access the deep web , and the funny thing about the Tor browser is that one branch of the US government helps fund it so that their operatives can communicate undetected , but the other half namely the feds are always trying to hack it to stop criminals so they say , but really its mostly to try and spy on people like Edward Snowden because he uses it to share information and the like

i dont know how old that article is , but it must be fairly old because silk road is back up and running , its called silk road 2 now lol

Suuuuure lol j/k....

The whole concept fascinates me for some reason. Ive read a lot of stuff on some sub reddits abt it and experiences are mixed....some are a lot like yours and some are people scared sh!tless abt the child porn lol.

@TheCelt: Yea Ive read where Silk Road is back and several other "stores" have opened.

well i was like you and was curious to see what all the fuss was about after reading about the silk road website so i downloaded the TOR browser and went on to it , but other than the silk road and pink meth , (both of whose onion address you can get off google btw) its really hard to find anything of interest because like i said nothing is indexed so you need the exact .onion address or a working link to find anything , so for the curious casual surfer like me its pretty much a waste of time lol