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I was just wondering if anyone had had any experience or stores that they could tell me about accessing the deep web using tor... I've been doing a bit of reading on the whole thing since it caught my interest but I was wondering if it's worth the risk of getting caught for accidently viewing something illegal or getting a virus or maleware on my computer

If you do not know what you are doing, it is best that you not use tor.

From what I know about it, while going to the hidden .onion domain is not illegal by itself, a lot of criminals use it due to it's hidden and anonymous nature, just in order to make it harder for police to monitor what they're doing. Pedophiles also use the Tor network to distribute child pornography for that reason as well and apparently the network is full of random child porn all over place. It does have it's legitimate uses but I wouldn't want to go there and risk accidentally clicking on something illegal, like some random child porn site, and then getting into trouble for it.

The deep web itself is nothing more than web pages that are not indexed by the standard web engines. Any site that is not indexed is part of the deep web.

I have several such pages. Mine are copies of documentation on various subjects and are generally only available over IPv6. There's nothing illegal or even in poor taste on them. Their entire purpose is so that I have a local copy of documentation that is still there for me to use even if my internet connection is down.

For example, I maintain a duplicate copy of this: http://www.nasm.us/doc/.

How much do you know about Tor?

Do you know who created it?and why?

Do you know who it was given to?and by whom?

Be very careful

I used to use Tor sometimes so I wouldn't have any search history.

If you want the Deep Web, take a look at this: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=8.

I would recommend avoiding the deep web unless you specifically know what you are doing.

As stated, many records and sub-pages are actually "deep-web", and using those is no problem, but if you specifically go and dig, there's no telling what you'll find.

Tor is a tool, it is not itself the deep web. It is an anonymity network, but it is not primarily a content network. It is about transports, exit nodes, encryption.

You can use tor for normal internet use.

You might be at greater risk of your computer being hacked if you access it. I don't think it's worth it unless you really know what you are doing it. It's where all the pedophiles go, and all the drug dealers, supposedly.

You should watch darknet, lol.

I know torr Is not the deepweb, but simply a tool. My point was torr is severely insecure, and unless you have a VPN equipped its best to use other protocols. I however was going on retreat and wanted to reply quickly.

I was curious about this, I just came across it researching accessing the subconscious mind, of all things. Maybe the deep web is the subconscious mind of the Internet
But is it really worth the trouble if you don't want drugs, guns, hit men or porn? From what you read on the surface web, that's all that's in there. I read a few sites cater more toward banned books clubs and political sedition, which is interesting, but hell, just reading some info on the surface web tells you more than you wanted to know. Live sex dolls and crush porn? Really? It might be interesting reading, but there may be things in there no one should be thinking about.

What you read is just flat wrong.

The deep web consists of all that is not indexed.

For example, we used to maintain an on-line library of tens of thousands of documents with new documents added weekly. Access required a subscription. It was all unindexed and thus deep web. There was nothing in it that was illegal -- in fact for those who needed the documents it was illegal not to have access to them from one source or another and they had to prove each year that they had such access.

And like I said earlier, I have a number of mirrors of various web sites containing documentation. That includes documentation for several versions of QT as well as for NASM, Berkeley DB, and Docbook. Anyone could read them if they could find them -- there is no access control at all. There is nothing illegal there, just a local copy so that I have access to them even if the Internet itself is down. For what it's worth, these sites all require IPv6 to access them.

And for that matter, part of wrongplanet.net is deep web -- those members only portions of it that require you to subscribe to read it. Also, those portions used by the administrators to run the site.

I would be extremely surprised if more than a very small portion of the deep web is at all illegal. Actually, I wouldn't believe it at all because I know better.

I don't know if it is still there, but there used to be a free.tibet website. That is, tibet was the top level domain name similar to the commonly known org, edu, net, com, and gov.

All you needed to do to access it was to use an alternate DNS system that recognized the tibet top level domain. Note that the tibet top level domain is not the ti top level domain which is recognized by the standard DNS.