The files say that they were created 2000 at 2 am .some of them are Arabic lol I took some pics what should I do?

Over the weekend of July 27/28, I had the police raid my house - they denied doing so. They left no trace except for an accidental sticker and break where they entered. Oh, someone also smashed up my backup drive to be a jackass. I have a crappy recording of the entire thing they left on my voicemail. It's a terrible quality recording of them going through my things. I was called with this recording and the next day a second one with juvenile threats saying, "they knew where I lived" and they would "come to get me". They mention me by name and describe where I like to take my walks, etc. This is some crazy stuff. It has to be related to this Tor stuff since I ran a half dozen relays, bridges, and such.

I have the original barely audible recordings if anyone is interested - it's pretty interesting stuff if you know how to use an audio forensics package or even Audacity. Now, even weirder. My cellphone - all of a sudden - is assigned and will only connect through 22.248.98.0 - which is DoD. Has anyone else received threats - or strange calls?

Personally, I have never stumbled upon it, but I have heard rumbles about illegal drugs, stolen passwords, credit cards and the occasional red rooms

I'll like yo hear what are the most interesting, most disturbing or most boring things you have found in deep web/dark web

Does anybody recommend for me to go to deep web, why or why not?

I've been using TOR instead of using a v pn with a regular browser when watching porn (I know I know..I'm trying to quit..)

Obviously I don't download anything, I just browse and watch videos (and before you ask I just visit regular websites that are on the clear web)

I have ocd and I read that you can get malware just from browsing and watching videos and now I'm scared

I regularly run the default windows antivirus on windows 11 as full scan and it hasn't found anything, and I also look at the task manager from time to time and haven't noticed anything sus

Some websites sometimes have popups that redirect you to other pages when you click play, I close them most of the time but sometimes I just wait to see where it redirects me and most of the time it's just a redirection to cam sites so im guessing these are just advertisements

And sometimes I get a "NoScript XSS Warning" where it says "NoScript has detected a potential cross-site scripting attack" from clicking on videos on spankbang.com, I click on "block this request" when this happens but from the short research I did this this doesn't seem to be malicious (you can easily replicate this yourselves if you want to try and see, it happens almost everytime you click a video so to me it just seems like a popup that gets blocked?)

I haven't messed with any browser settings, TOR is just running at the default settings.

Thanks in advance people

Is this the torr browser or just goduckgo, when I tried to access a link it showed, you will have to use tor browser to access this link, help me.

Hi guys, I recently heard about darknet/deepweb and wanted to take a short look on them. I installed TOR on Ubuntu on Virtual Box (NAT + no shared folders and clipboard), visited some sites from hidden wiki (10- 15 max), found nothing really inteteresting to me and that's all, left it after 2 hours. No files downloaded. But the "vibe" of hidden stuff and long and strange .onion addresses gaves me a little fear about my host PC (Win10) about viruses that (well...) could escape from Ubuntu virtual machine to my net or host. Defender, MRT and HitmanPro have 0 detections for now. I know I'm an almost paranoic, but it was my first encounter with TOR and .onion web, so please, try to understand me instead of laughing about newbie that created this post, okay? Thanks!

Is it just me, or does it feel like Tor is somehow linked to these vulnerabilities? With all these correlation attacks happening, it seems like the Tor developers aren’t doing enough to fix things. I really support them and everyone coding for Tor, but why aren’t these vulnerabilities being corrected? Sure, you can use a VPN like Mullvad for privacy, but that’s not free. So please, Tor developers, I’m begging you—fix this! and Tor is great, but the real threats? Traffic correlation, timing attacks, shady relays, and browser bugs. Agencies like the NSA can use these to track users or unmask hidden services—stay aware, stay safe!❤ for all devs that code and help tor !!!

So basically my friend said that he was "casually" going through the dark web and I tried telling him its not secure but he said his cousin who works at the government taught him this setup 😭.

1. He says you need a "triple layered VPN" (Nord + Proton vpn) with a usb to Ethernet adapter to hide from the FBI and CIA.

2. When I informed him about Tor already routing your IP through 3 nodes and a VPN just makes a static trust chain, then he claimed it gives him a mega spoofed IP which isn't real.

3. Then he claimed that his ISP is spoofed and he essentially, yes essentially created his own internet service.

4. When I called him out for being able to spoof a multi billion dollar telecommunication network he said that he has a "scratched router" 💀

5. Then later he cracked and said he had spectrum ISP, but because of all mentioned above they dont have any data on him.

6. And the cherry on top is when he said he had a VM which encrypted him even more 😭

Please let me know your thoughts about my friends "amazing" dark web set up. I will be showing this to him.

edit : his post https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1tv34yg/help_for_a_beginner_setup/

💀 Since so many people keep asking about Tor basics, I put together a full guide on how to actually use it the right way—no myths, no BS, just real OPSEC. 🔥

If you're here, you already know that Tor is one of the best tools for online anonymity. But let’s be real—90% of guides out there are garbage.

❌ “Tor makes you completely anonymous!” – No, it doesn’t, unless you know what you’re doing.
❌ “The NSA hacked Tor!” – No, people just suck at OPSEC.
❌ “Just use a VPN instead.” – If you think a VPN replaces Tor, you need to start over.

If you actually want to use Tor the right way, here’s what you need to do:
✔️ ALWAYS use Tor bridges – Don’t let your ISP flag you for connecting to Tor. *(Depending on your location, this might not be 100% necessary, but it helps prevent correlation attacks.)*✔️ NEVER use Tor on Windows – If you do, you’re just asking to get owned.
✔️ NEVER log into personal accounts – That’s how you link yourself to a session.
✔️ USE .onion sites whenever possible – No exit node = no extra risk.
✔️ DON’T torrent files over Tor – Unless you want to leak your real IP.

💀 This is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want the full breakdown on how to actually stay anonymous on Tor, I wrote up a full guide here:

https://medium.com/@five-squeak-junior/the-real-way-to-use-tor-not-the-reddit-misinformation-version-969ad24818dc

🔥 No myths, no BS—just straight OPSEC. Stay safe, stay private. 🚀

Dont waste your botnet like the people who are not slowing down tor, but instead turn all the drones into TOR relay nodes.

Think about it, if the tor networks consists out of unknowing relay nodes the tor network will be different forever.

It could reach 5 million relay nodes with a decent size botnet.

Go Go Go!

I don't have a spare ten grand to hire a hacker,but I do have a mission. I'm wondering how to take down any websites. Yes I'm aware that there are thousands of these sites. Any help appreciated.

I’m on the apple app store and am curious if the tor browser is as secure as I’ve heard. I’ve been sailing the seas of Pirate Bay for years on my pixel and note with NordVPN but now I want to start sailing with my iPhone but just wanted to know other’s opinions

All of the good .onion sites are gone now and I can't even find a decent site list anymore. 90% of the sites are not loading at all. Is this it for TOR? What a huge difference a few years makes. This is nowhere near what it used to be. Where can I go to chat now?

If the IP addresses of certain onion services can be detected through previously published papers, how can it be proven that these IP addresses are onion services.

I thought of a way that I can perform a DoS attack on this IP. Then access the onion service corresponding to this IP, and if there is an access timeout or other anomaly, it means that this IP is the IP address of the onion service.

Unfortunately, implementing a DoS attack is costly and I don’t have that kind of money to validate my scenario. Does anyone have any method?

https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html

I am sick of people telling me their opinions rather than have them read and research in detail.

TOR and all other available security and privacy means are compromised and have been for some time now. I think the article says it all so I really don't need to echo it. I can dig up more but why bother? There are dozens of programs that are not listed nor even mentioned, and since this article was published, the IC has not dialed back their over reach, they have ramped it up even further!

STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO USE TOR FOR PRIVACY!

Hey guys, I think the tor project is great but there are some key problems, which makes Tor a bad choice for privacy and anonymous usage.

• Tor was created by the US millitary before going open source

• Tor's still receiving funds from the US government

• There are only around 6000 relays, and the number doesn't change over the past 5-10 years

• Because the number of relays are too small, so a large part of it can belong to someone, who want to spy on you. Then what is the point of protecting privacy anymore?

In my opinion, if there are millions of relays around the world, it can be much more private than today.

Just my personal opinion though, I appreciate any arguments and comments of you guys.

Thanks a lot for your time!

Since about two days ago, I can't load websites with the Tor browser. It just endlessly cycles and never displays anything. Sometimes it will load a homepage, but then won't load any links that I follow from that. If a Youtube video asks me to "log in to prove you're not a bot", I'll switch circuits as I normally would, but then it won't load up. The problem happens with both my desktop app and my android phone app, so I doubt that the problem is specific to either of those.

Is no one else experiencing this?

Having had some difficulties with the readily available articles on the subject, I thought I might present the solution I eventually found to the problem of getting a TOR button to function on Chrome. I've been informed that Firefox provides more anonymity, but frankly that wasn't my primary concern and it may not be the primary concern of others. All the tutorials I found while googling said to install the TOR browser bundle and connect to port 8118. This no longer works, apparently because Privoxy is no longer part of the package's implementation. What follows is a quick rundown of how to get a TOR toggle button working easily in Chrome.

1. Install Advanced Onion Router

2. Install Proxy Switch

3. In Chrome, right-click the Proxy Switch icon and select options

4. Under the Proxy Profiles tab, rename your profile, select manual configuration, enter HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 Port 9050, and check "Use the same proxy server for all protocols". Save.

5. Under the General tab, check the Quick Switch box, select Binary Switch, under Profile 1 select [Direct Connection] and under Profile 2 select your TOR profile. Save.

6. Click the Proxy Switcher button to switch between your direct connection and your TOR connection.

I listen to all these horror stories on YouTube and what not. I'm just curious, i only want to browse the deep web for real UFO, Paranormal cases and real haunted houses for sell. Things of that nature. Maybe dive into real alien abductions and such. I want to make a tail os usb.

I’m a law lecturer, and this is a question I often discuss with my students when we talk about fundamental rights and online privacy. I’d be interested to see how people here approach it.

I’m not really asking whether Tor “should exist” in some simplistic sense. What interests me is the underlying balancing exercise: how much harmful conduct we are willing to tolerate in order to preserve meaningful online privacy, and why.

Tools like Tor can be used for entirely ordinary purposes — simply browsing without tracking, avoiding profiling, or keeping certain personal habits private that one would reasonably prefer not to expose.

At the same time, it is undeniable that the same infrastructure is also used for illegal and harmful activities, including various forms of black markets and organized wrongdoing.

So the issue is not whether the technology is “good” or “bad”, but how we weigh these competing values in practice.

If you had to choose, would you preserve strong privacy tools like Tor despite their misuse, or restrict them to prevent harm? Why?

And more importantly: what trade-offs are you actually willing to accept to preserve that privacy?