rahmu wroteI completely agree with Elied. I don't think this particular story is legit, it seems like it's a really well written piece of fiction. However I do think there are some fucked up psychos out there, and I wouldn't be surprised that there's something as twisted as a live execution.
I'd like to dispel some myths there. AFAIK, there's nothing called "the Shadow Web". There is however something called the "Deeb Web". A lot of myths and fantasies have been written by clueless writers looking for drama about the deep web.
What's the deep web? It's the part of information on the web that is not indexed by search engines. For instance comments, tweets, private messages, ...
What's not the deep web? A gigantic black market out there where you can buy drugs and human lives for a fistful of bitcoins. That's just not true.
The deep web has been singled out because lawmakers seem to think that removing something from Google search results means it's removed from the Internet. Once they realized that there's very little they can do to control what's posted on the deep web, they called the space "lawless".
Note that it is possible to restrict access to your website, for instance by hosting it on the Tor network. That would hide your address from search engines. And yes, some of the websites doing this (I said some), are doing something illegal. But this has nothing to do with the "deep web".
The Deep Web is something we all visit multiple times a day. It's nothing to be afraid of.
That's not entirely true. Even though the first rule of the deep web is: Do not talk about the deep web outside the deep web but here's my story,
Two years ago I got hit by a car and my ankle tendons were ripped. I couldn't move for one month, so my days were full of free time and boredom. I was doing a research about pain killers side effects, which led me to a lot of drugs forums. It's there where I first read “silkroad”, deep web's black market(for all the junkies out there don’t be angry at me, silkroad is seized anyway). My curiosity pushed me to find a way to access that layer of the web. After about half an hour of research, I found the link and I downloaded the required software to access it.
The next day I called my friend and sent him to buy me some bitcoins through WU. I ordered a Backyard Brains SpikerBox from silkroad(it was like the only legal thing on the website), and guess what, it was delivered two weeks after. So you could've bought whatever you wanted from there.
Accessing the deep web is not as hard as you think, there is even a wiki for the deep web where you can find a lot of links(most of them are dead).
After spending a couple of days surfing the deep web, I learned that there is a deeper layer which is called the dark web. It’s the place where a sane person can find things he could've never imagined. It’s like an illustration of the Evil nature of humans. Even though the deep web introduced me to necrophilia, VORE, and was full of pedophiles, pedo, twisted and sick material but it was not enough for me.
The dark web was something else. It’s like the deep web is the place where people just talk and are full of shit but the dark web is the place where people actually do things. I never forget this day. It was the first time I cried as a grown man and stayed about 40 hours without eating(I know it sounds cheesy, and I don’t know if it was because all of the tramadol I was on). It’s not what I saw that made me feel this way. It’s the fear for my family members and loved ones from people I didn’t even imagine they exist.
The website was a forum where fucked up psych people discuss they’re preferred ways to torture and kill people. While scrolling and reading the most fucked up shit a human being can ever read, a user has posted two links. I clicked the first link. A dialog box popped out warning me that downloading material can help in exposing my identity. I clicked anyway. The video started by showing a man who tied a little naked girl to a table. Then this nice man puts a brick on the girl’s chest. Till then I wasn’t understanding what he was doing. Then after a couple of minutes he added another brick. The little girl started screaming and was having a hard time breathing. Every couple of minutes he added another brick. What was happening is that the little girls internal organs were getting crushed while she was still alive. I didn’t know if she died at the end because off suffocation or because of internal injuries. The other video was so fucked up, I can’t even talk about it. What scared me was that most of those fucked up people where intellectuals and very smart people.
After watching them I backed up my important files and wrote 0s on the entire hard disk to leave no trace of that shit.
Anyway you can find a lot of good and interesting subjects on the deep web and you can learn a lot about internet security from there.
Sorry for the long post.