But once you’re there, it may be difficult to determine who or what else is on the network - that’s kind of what the whole thing is for. To access the Dark Web, you’ll need to use a browser like Tor. At the most basic, technical level, we’re talking about a relatively small collection of Web sites that (a) are not indexed by search engines and (b) use anonymity tools like Tor to hide their IP addresses. “I don’t think what they do is good,” one Redditor in r/onions recently commented, “I just want to see it for myself.”Ī post to the Dark Web site “Anonymous Confessions.”įor those of you asking why the morbidly curious don’t simply Google it, let’s begin with a 101-level explainer of what the Dark Web is.
They wanted to witness one of the Internet’s most stubborn urban legends for themselves: The myth that, if you dig deep and long enough, you will find the furthest reaches of human depravity - torture, murder, terrorism, you name it - on the Dark Web. But reading through their posts, one gets the sense that most were less interested in gore than in the final, long-denied proof that a “deeper” Dark Web actually exists. In dozens of threads on 4chan and in Reddit’s r/darkweb and r/tor forums, they counted down to the stream’s appointed start time and chronicled its every technical glitch.
The excitement was instant - if nervous - amidst the forum-goers who planned to tune in. A mysterious group claimed to have captured several Islamic State fighters - and promised to torture and kill them live on the Dark Web. Late last week, a rumor both disturbing and riveting began circling forums like 4chan and Reddit.
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