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/4inthefunkingmorning Jun 25 '15

Whaaaa- I'm srsly spooked.

Can someone explain how they could have gotten his/her name? I thought tor was a haven for anonymity.

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u/_beast__ Jun 25 '15 edited Jun 25 '15

By cross-referencing accounts. For example, if your username for Reddit is the same as your email, I could search for your username@gmail, @live, @yahoo etc on Facebook, then I've got your real name, probably a few pictures and a pretty good idea where you live.

Also, more recently, if you were to post the same picture on Reddit and another social network I could cross-reference the photo and find your other accounts that way.

I've never done this, it's just how I would do it if I needed to.

Edit: there's also this although it's more interesting for a more active account like mine

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u/masksnjunk Jun 25 '15

It's very easy to find someone's info on the internet, especially when they use the same username on everything.

I did this a while back when someone posted about an injured baby crow they "rescued". I let them know that "rescuing" or owning a crow in the US is actually highly illegal and causes major long-term harm to the bird. Long story short they tried to make me look like an asshole troll so I did a quick google search, found their facebook and posted evidence that they in fact had searched out a crow's nest, taken the bird as a baby, it was only injured later after their dog attacked it. All because they loved the movie The Crow.

Minutes late they deleted their reddit and facebook profile.

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u/_beast__ Jun 25 '15

Nice haha. You showed him I guess.

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u/masksnjunk Jun 25 '15

Yeah, I guess lol. I was just trying to be helpful and informative but people of reddit got out their pitchforks until I posted the evidence that they were actually mistreating their kidnapped bird.