Wednesday, 28 March 2012

OnionIB - The deep web - is it really that bad?

When I used to lurk the internet, I used to read loads about how mysterious and creepy it was down there. I read about assassination plots, drugs, child porn, phreakers and genital mutilation etc. I was very interested (Yeah, I know, someone who was 12 should spend more time doing other things but whatever) and decided I would pluck up the courage to go down there.

I downloaded TOR, got the .onion for the hidden wiki, pressed enter and hoped for the best...

... is that it?
It just looks like Wikipedia. *Scroll Scroll* Urrgh, that's a link to jailbait. I don't want to go on that. *Scroll Scroll* Ooh. Black Market. Looks cool, lets check this out. *Click* *Scroll Scroll* Weed? I was expecting warheads and guns! *Click* *Scroll Scroll* Penis panic. Sounds delicious. Right, this is boring, and I have some homework to do *Click X*

All in all? Its not that bad. It's not some secret underground community, full of dark'n'edgy mega hackers. The only things that you can actually find down their are drugs and child porn. The internet tends to big up things that are slightly controversial, such as TORNet and 4chan.

Thanks for reading :)

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