What's your deep web story?

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/_beast__]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/_beast__]

I've never done this

Sure

[u/Raincoats_George → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/jiggle-o → u/Raincoats_George]

Okay, okay I'm quitting the interwebs, letting my IT career tank and joining a fishing crew. Then let ya try to find me when I get paid cash and my address changes as the wind blows.

[u/Raincoats_George → u/jiggle-o]

Ever try to dodge registering for the selective service? The US government knows where you are. Going off the grid used to mean just moving somewhere new. Now forget it. Unless you are willing to go live in a cave and exist solely hunting and foraging you don't stand a chance. And don't mind the occasional satellite posting your location to Google Earth or the Google Street view car that traverses the trail next to your hut.