You literally cannot accidentally get on to the dark web.
It uses direct IP connections outside of web domains, and most use TOR (despite at least one node being compromised) to visit it.
In order to reach those direct IP connections, you have to willfully scrape IPs and stumble on what you're looking for, or be invited directly. Operators within the space may also automatically reject connections from IPs that aren't whitelisted.
Not only can you not access it "by accident", most have no business even doing it because you can get on some serious watch lists if you don't know what you're doing or where you're going, and you don't want to have to tell the federal government at your door why your IP address accessed one of their honey pots.
Nowadays the dark web also has a lot of encryption software that is intended to protect the site and its users.
Note that this is also different than the deep web, which is the vast majority of the internet, can be searched through similar means, but includes things like email addresses and so on -- it just isn't indexed by search engines. You also can't stumble on the deep web by accident.
What she would have stumbled on is probably some sketchy forum linked from somewhere that had said content.
You literally cannot accidentally get on to the dark web.
Tor2web is no longer? Onion.to links don't work any more? As always, you need to be careful what the links you click are and where they're taking you to.
That’s impossible, she just downloaded a deep web browser like Tor for presumably other reasons she chose not to disclose. You can’t access the deep web from the surface web
I never want to see it either and so sorry that your daughter did...🙏
You cant accidentally get on the dark web
Not that I want to, but I’ve always wondered how one gets on the dark web. Does it take some sort of trick or a certain search term?
Click on an onion link while using tor? Seems plausible to me...
You literally cannot accidentally get on to the dark web.
It uses direct IP connections outside of web domains, and most use TOR (despite at least one node being compromised) to visit it.
In order to reach those direct IP connections, you have to willfully scrape IPs and stumble on what you're looking for, or be invited directly. Operators within the space may also automatically reject connections from IPs that aren't whitelisted.
Not only can you not access it "by accident", most have no business even doing it because you can get on some serious watch lists if you don't know what you're doing or where you're going, and you don't want to have to tell the federal government at your door why your IP address accessed one of their honey pots.
Nowadays the dark web also has a lot of encryption software that is intended to protect the site and its users.
Note that this is also different than the deep web, which is the vast majority of the internet, can be searched through similar means, but includes things like email addresses and so on -- it just isn't indexed by search engines. You also can't stumble on the deep web by accident.
What she would have stumbled on is probably some sketchy forum linked from somewhere that had said content.
Tor2web is no longer? Onion.to links don't work any more? As always, you need to be careful what the links you click are and where they're taking you to.
Bless her heart!
That’s impossible, she just downloaded a deep web browser like Tor for presumably other reasons she chose not to disclose. You can’t access the deep web from the surface web
It bothered me when I saw it and I’m a combat vet.
I’m not that tough.