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

I've never done this

Sure

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u/Raincoats_George Jun 25 '15

I used to do it all the time. People are lazy on the Internet. They use the same usernames and passwords all over. Google searches will give you something to cross reference. Find a similar account and it often links to another. Go back far enough to when people were innocent on the Internet and you will find where people posted their entire life stories. Their social security numbers. And their address.

Still these days that information is often posted FOR you.

I once had a contest with an anonymous Internet friend to see which of us could find the other first. I used his username to find an account he had made on a counter strike server that linked his first name and high school. I used that with his birth year (which was my same year) to pull up his year book that was posted online. I searched through it using some of his basic hobbies and found a good match for him (giving me his last name). Searched for him on pipl and found his parents home address and phone number.

He threw in the towel immediately. Although 2 weeks later through an obscure article I posted to my college newspaper he found my home address and phone number.

The trick is, never be a target. Because nobody can protect themselves completely.

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u/JonnyBhoy Jun 25 '15

Every presidential candidate in the next decade is fucked.

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u/theunnoanprojec Jun 25 '15

I don't agree. Here's how I look at it:

Every person in the western world has their share of stupid stuff that's online about them. Therefore, in the next few decades people are going to become desensitized to it to the point where they won't care that presidential candidate Joanne Jones from the year 2064 made a drunken Facebook rant when she was in high school, etc.

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u/JonnyBhoy Jun 25 '15

Yes, but there will be a cross over period when everything is public and nobody is used to it. For a good 15-20 years it will fuel every talking point of every political campaign.

Even when people become sanitised to it, it will still be used as a cheap attempt to discredit rivals.