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Hacking and Security => Anonymity and Privacy => : DerpyTurtle March 12, 2013, 02:09:55 AM
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Hey guys I am pretty new to the darknet and dont know too much about how it works, so I was wondering what you could tell me about it, I've read some online about what they are but I still dont understand how they really work to keep me anonymous. I would like to start using it to its full potential. Any ideas?
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Which darknet are you thinking about?
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Waste. I don't know too much about it. I'm still doing some reading.
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generally bad/dangerous, if you don't know what your doing and not using extremely secure protocols avoid.
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^lol compared to this battlefield called the www.
Dont really know whats worse.
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What I was referring to is basically you might stumble upon underground foreign markets (not going to get into details).
In a a purely, technical sense here's a really good video(defcon 19) about darknets you might find interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqsfNqXBKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqsfNqXBKM)
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All in all, darknets are a simple concept. They are a closed network which are (typically) invite only and exist to provide some sort of content/service. An example of this is the child pornography ring which used usenet mailing groups and GPG keys to talk about, and distribute CP. Everything was encrypted and only members of the darknet knew how to get the CP. Another example is the more popular stuff such as Tor onion sites. They aren't indexed, often no one even knows they exist.
The basic idea behind a darknet is that everyone is anonymized into a cloud nebulous of data and because the group is kept small and everyone is vetted before being able to join, it makes it very difficult for people to infiltrate the group or take it down.