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Why You Should Never Go on the Dark Web

As we know, not everyone using the dark web is doing something criminal. In some ways, this corner of the Internet gets a bad name, and research has shown that many of the darkest things supposedly happening in the dark web, it’s well known that many people, mainly the younger generation, go there to buy illegal substances that they may have otherwise procured on the street. It’s also well known that people with strange inclinations visit this place to chat with others that share their fascination with what we might call the more eccentric aspects of life. The question is, should you go there? That’s what we’ll discuss in this article. Why You Should Avoid the Dark Web. It’s said that only around 10 percent of the Internet is the Internet as we know it, meaning the part we can all access. Much of the rest of the Internet we call the Deep Web, which is just the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engines such as Google.

It’s a common mistake to think the dark web and the deep web are the same. The dark web is just a small part of the deep web. Many people give the example of an iceberg. The bit at the top that we can see is the Internet as we know it. The main part that lies under the water is the deep web and the dark web is just a very small part at the very bottom of the iceberg. This is naturally where people go when they don’t want to be found. That might be because they have a store there selling the aforementioned illegal substances, or it might just be because they are living in a country that has very oppressive lawson speech. In the dark web, you’ll find sites that end with .onion. These websites are not accessible using your regular browser. But you can easily download the Tor browser and before you can say, where am I you’ll be on the dark web. Here you should have complete anonymity. Ok, so the question is, should you go there? Well, firstly you should know that the dark web, of course, is of interest to authorities. Illegal things happen there, so we can expect authorities to keep an eye on the place. You should also know that the Tor browser has vulnerabilities. With this in mind, you might ask just how safe is your anonymity? We might also ask if there are other reasons why you should not visit the dark web, reasons more related to you finding things you probably shouldn’t have found. With the latter concern in mind, we looked at Reddit and Quora posts containing people talking about negative experiences on the dark web. We can’t vouch for the honesty of the posts, but indeed there are people out there who said they came across things in the dark web they wish they would have never seen. 

The problem here is that you are exposed, and this puts you at risk of being hacked. Other than that, many people do use the Tor browser but they don’t use a VPN. The problem here is that Tor has been cracked a few times and if that happens your URL can be seen. Ok, so you only went to that disgusting site out of sheer curiosity, but still, you went there and it might not look for you when your local newspaper has a headline that goes something along the lines, “Boy, 17, Caught Downloading Images of XXXXX on Dark Web.” You might also accidentally download files from the dark web, Still, people might just do this by accident. But the big thing to remember, according to that same expert, is don’t think that what you are doing on the dark web is legal. It’s just not something you want to happen to you, and it might not matter that you went to those sites innocently. Other websites tell us that the FBI and police from all over the world are regularly inside the dark web. Sometimes they go undercover and manage to find the address where parcels are delivered. The Indian media tells us that arrests were made in 2017 by the Mumbai Anti Narcotics Cell when some boys had ordered LSD from the dark web. Arrests have also been made of the sellers. The press tells us that in the UK from 2017 to 2018 there were 1,210 drug seizures relating to the dark web, so it might not be as safe as you think about to score your gear there. Police in the UK said buying your stuff on the dark web carries more risk than buying in the streets because if your purchase came from abroad you could be said to be an importer. The police also added that mail services in the UK are getting very good at spotting packages containing such substances.

The FBI has been known to sell weapons on the dark web, and who knows where they might be lurking. The motherboard also tells us that the FBI set up one hack wherein when a user clicked on a link that was supposed to take them to an unseemly illegal image, that person’s IP address became known to the FBI. Well, we are told that when police make an arrest of a vendor or someone doing something illegal, they often collect IP addresses of people who had connected with that person or persons. Most people are only really interested in the Dark Web for one reason: they want to know if their personal information is up for sale to the highest bidder! But trying to navigate the murky digital backwaters of the internet can be dangerous.