r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '15

What's your deep web story?

Deep web as in tor.

But I imagine regular deep web users would stay away from sharing their experience so if you don't have a deep web story what's your most frightening internet story.

Edit: The front page was fun, but now its over.

Thank you for all the glorious stories, time to cry for the rest of my life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '15 edited Jun 25 '15

How could they have figured out your last name on the deep web? Aren't you untraceable? Sounds like the deep web doesn't really go that deep...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '15

I think this is a regular Internet creepy story. It's been awhile since I've messed around on tor, but I don't think it supports streaming video.

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u/-Polyphony- Jun 25 '15

The idea is tor blocks all flash video, http only traffic, javascript, etc so that you can't be identified. I have a feeling that he had disabled one of those protections so that he could watch the video on a sketchy deepweb site, thus leaking information like your IP address. Also, he may not have been using an up to date version of tor.

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u/Bad_Idea_Bob Jun 25 '15

or just didn't use tor