Jackson Jambalaya

Ever wondered if there was more to the internet? Well, there is...... if you have the time, patience, and um, inclination to dig into the Deep Web.


"So if the Internet as you know it is an iceberg, the smallest part of that iceberg, the visible portion, is where you have been surfing your entire life. You visit websites, click links, use search engines to research topics of interest and generally just make your way around the visible Web. But below that visible portion, there is a much larger compilation of destinations beyond the reach of most Internet users. This portion, the Deep Web, is much harder for the average person to access and even harder to navigate. Much of the criminal activity that happens on the Deep Web is cloaked in anonymity, shrouded in secrecy or somehow hidden from the prying eyes that would love to put an end to this virtual land of OZ. Essentially what I’m saying is this: You may be familiar with the Internet, maybe even the darker side of the Internet. You may know how to find pornography for free, download music illegally, use a torrent program to download pirated movies and other media or purchase prescription pills from some online pharmacy. But if you haven’t visited the Deep Web, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Sure, there are research papers and legitimate and interesting pieces of content to view on The Other Side but there’s also some pretty nefarious happenings there.

How do you connect to the Deep Web?: Though the Deep Web may be beyond those of you with little in the way of technical and Web savvy, it’s not impossible, nor even extremely difficult to visit. First, you’ll need to download Tor, the software that allows you to access the Deep Web. Tor is designed to provide Internet users with as close to complete anonymity as possible. The Tor website describes their software and their mission as follows.

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

You can use Tor on virtually any PC, Mac or even mobile devices like the iPhone and Android-operated smartphones. But, if, like me, you’re using Firefox, you next need to install the Torbutton. With the Tor software up and running and the Torbutton installed, you’ll see a small onion logo near the address bar of your browser. If you’re correctly logged in to the Tor network, you can click this button and begin to explore the Deep Web. This collection of Deep Web links should get you started. But, keep in mind, you won’t be able to maneuver in this new land quite as easily as you did back on the visible Web. There is no Google-like search engine of these sites that I’m aware of at the moment. Instead, it’s a collection of Wikis and BBS-like sites that aggregate links to other locations on the Deep Web. These sites generally have bizarre, unmemorable domain names like SdddEEDOHIIDdddgmomionw.onion. That’s right, instead of .com, these domains generally end in the .onion suffix. And because you’ll never remember how you got to where you are if you spend any significant time here, it’s best to save URLs or bookmark your way through this journey. Article on Deep Web, Wikipedia entry, Tutorial

Here are a couple of interesting posts made on Tigerdroppings by posters, including a warning:

"Take this for what it is worth...

I highly suggest you do not "delve" into the deep web. Most of it is complete bullshit and conspiracy theories, but there is some very legit and some very disturbing things. Those that actually use the deep web for nefarious reasons are highly capable of doing a litany of things to your computer and ultimately with that information, to you. While this thread is entertaining, this really isn't something you should play with.

Most of the stuff you guys are interested in can be found on the regular web with some diligent searches, so why go some place where you will be subjected to the dregs of society? Do you really want to see some poor child being victimized? Do you really want to observe a drug marketplace? Do you really want to possibly get in the cross hairs of some of these people?

Ignorance is bliss. Leave this type of surfing to the degenerate mongoloids of the world, and the decent people who hunt them.


It's mostly bullshit. The stuff that isn't bullshit is the stuff that you wouldn't be interested in or stuff that is really not meant for decent people.

There is a ton of scientific data that is basically stored on massive servers that can be accessed. This information has nothing to do with ET, Elliott, or Drew Barrymore before she got hooked on booze. It's scientific data, ie, shit that unless you know what you are looking at, you have no clue what you are looking at.

Of course there is plenty of music and movies, but if I wanted to create a bunch of slave computers, what better way than to embed something in Lil Wayne's latest mix tape?

Like I said, it's mostly bullshit. Kids/low level hackers doing rudimentary hacking to steal passwords and CC information. That should be the least of your concern. Getting dotted by someone that has much larger aspirations and ability could easily take advantage of your dumb ass. You just wanted to get the latest glee sound track and read about ET banging a hybrid unicorn and next thing you know...

The really big fish can walk through your firewall, sit in your living room, then proceed to take a shit on your bread rack. It's really not worth this risk. Like I said, take it for what it's worth and do as you will..."