Category: Geeks r Us
Hello wondered if anyone uses tor at all. I've just started and I personally like it. Anyone else on the zone a tor user?
What is it?
A way to stay anonymous online. It's good if you don't want to be tracked so easily.
Heard of it, haven't used it.
The types of so-called underweb stuff I've read for years -- interesting collapse theories whose dates never came to be, interesting stuff on the Federal Reserve not offered in history class, etc. you can get to with a regular browser. If you're concerned, just run an incognito or in-private browsing tab.
Sure, sites can track your IP, at least to the level of your service provider. But most don't, and those that do are usually pay sites.
I know Tor runs what amounts to a proxy but haven't investigated the level of spoofing. Several anonymous apostates from the middle east I've met online tell me they use it plus a hack to their router's firmware to hide their IP from the government over there,
All the anti-government / conspiracy shit is all text but I somehow doubt the snuff stuff and other things are real. Certainly streaming through three layers of proxy without UDP would be difficult to impossible for some low-end dive in an alley.
Anyway that's all Tor is: incognito plus proxies. You're not gonna end up where you don't want to ... the undernet, deep web, etc. is just pages not registered on search engines. Some of them haven't updated since the 90s.
You could get to some of the same sites using a regular browser if you had the address and the port it was listening on.
Anyhow, interesting to learn Tor works with screen readers.
If you don't want to go that far or are scared by the "dark and stormy night" silly stories on Youtube about it, switch your search engine to DuckDuckGo.com -- it doesn't track your searches -- and use an incognito tab or in private browser mode page if you want.
There's actually a surprising amount of text-only web out there but you have to start with some more mainstream sites and proverbially spiral down from there.
You can't get to all of them. The underweb---more correctly the deep web--uses the onion routing protocol. It's https on speed.
Moral of this topic is that blind people want to buy drugs, just like sighted people do.
Interesting.
The only 2 reasons I wouldn't mind trying tools like that is to pretend that I am in the USA so I can try Pandora or in the UK so I can watch BBC I Player tv.
This has nothing to do with buying drugs. Sheesh
Maybe this is a silly question but what the heck is underweb or deep web?
The deep web is essentially the wild west of the internet. That's the best way my pea brain can describe it.
And it's awfully hard to find start pages that point you to things.
And yes, there's a lot of interesting conspiracy / anarchy stuff as well as, yes, drugs if you want to buy that over the net.
Any examples? a link or address?
Leo, I use it mostly for researching botnets. As for the last poster, I will not give out links on this sight mostly because you need the tor browser installed. I will give this hint. Hidin wiki.
Yup I looked at the hidden wicky and it sure looks like you need Tor. Seems wierd that I'd need a different browser to look at stuff that is free and uncensored.
because it uses a separate protocol altogether.
Before doing something stupid with this. Remember, the NSA and other government agencies, as well as researchers have cracked TOR.
Cracked it? They probably invented it. Nothing like having people round up themselves, to do stupid stuff they shouldn’t do.
they've cracked it like a walnut. That doesn't mean you should fear it.