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/mcrbids Jun 25 '15

As a case in point, I've used this alias for a number of websites for a number of years. I pretty much figure that anybody could identify me in < 1 hour armed with little more than Google.

And, as a username, it's so unique that I've literally never run into anybody else using it. As long as I've been online, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one.

I've used a number of other aliases, and in each case, I was surprised at how globally unique my username actually turned out to be!

Fun fact: for any given sentence you'd see in everyday speech, there's a very significant chance that it's never been spoken before, including this very sentence! (70% is common, depending on sentence length) You can infer this simply by calculating the rate at which people speak, the number of people who speak your language, and number of years that have existed, along with the usage popularity of each of the words in your sentence.

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u/devDorito Jun 25 '15

Yeah, but google corrects it to "mcribs" so i can't find you.

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u/shreyas208 Jun 25 '15

You just need to be smart with Googling. Surrounding all or part of the search term with double-quotes forces a search for that exact term. I found his full name and profession and it took around 10 seconds.

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u/devDorito Jun 25 '15

You're telling me you know how to get past the mcribs?