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Q: Ever heard of a Chinese equivalent to the dark web?
I think that's what it's called, or the deep web or something; some kind of deep, dark place in cyberspace where you can buy drugs and guns and watch kiddy porn and some such abhorrent shit.
I want to make it clear, I'm only asking out of morbid curiosity, I have no wish to ever seek out such a vile place, I'm just interested to know if one exists, within the great firewall of China I mean, I know it does outside it.
I think you must be quite confused about what is the Tor network (dark or deep web is for journalists).
To keep it simple it is just a protocol designed for anonymity between users and servers... so if one can be located to be in China that kind of defuses the whole purpose of it.
Now if the question is do Chinese websites exist within the TOR network, I'd say yes. Definitely a minority since one would need to use a VPN first and not everyone cares to know how to do that. But I'm sure Taiwanese or HKese may use those, not necessarily for illegal purposes by the way.
If the question is does organized crime in mainland China has its own internal anonimized network I'd say unlikely. First I doubt they would have the necessary resources (no chance they could get a funding in the first place, plus I'm sure even the government doesn't have the brains required to engineer this kind of stuff), second I doubt it would have any chance to become popular before being shut down, third they don't really need it to begin with.
mArtiAn:
Quite likely confused, yes, I'm a complete techno-vegetable, a few hundred years ago I'd have been the bloke holding his bow and arrow around the wrong way. I've heard of tor and have no idea what it is, but I've read about the dark web on Reddit.
RiriRiri:
Oh there's nothing wrong with that.
It's just that it's not as "dark" as journalists would make people believe, it's just a protocol for encrypting the web and making everything within it as anonymous as can be (to make it very simple).
Truth is many people or organizations use it for perfectly valid reasons, and the shady stuff probably doesn't weight as much as people think in the overall traffic.
And most of self procclaimed "shady" stuff are just really idiots with too much time on their hands and a server in their basement looking for thrill.
I think you must be quite confused about what is the Tor network (dark or deep web is for journalists).
To keep it simple it is just a protocol designed for anonymity between users and servers... so if one can be located to be in China that kind of defuses the whole purpose of it.
Now if the question is do Chinese websites exist within the TOR network, I'd say yes. Definitely a minority since one would need to use a VPN first and not everyone cares to know how to do that. But I'm sure Taiwanese or HKese may use those, not necessarily for illegal purposes by the way.
If the question is does organized crime in mainland China has its own internal anonimized network I'd say unlikely. First I doubt they would have the necessary resources (no chance they could get a funding in the first place, plus I'm sure even the government doesn't have the brains required to engineer this kind of stuff), second I doubt it would have any chance to become popular before being shut down, third they don't really need it to begin with.
mArtiAn:
Quite likely confused, yes, I'm a complete techno-vegetable, a few hundred years ago I'd have been the bloke holding his bow and arrow around the wrong way. I've heard of tor and have no idea what it is, but I've read about the dark web on Reddit.
RiriRiri:
Oh there's nothing wrong with that.
It's just that it's not as "dark" as journalists would make people believe, it's just a protocol for encrypting the web and making everything within it as anonymous as can be (to make it very simple).
Truth is many people or organizations use it for perfectly valid reasons, and the shady stuff probably doesn't weight as much as people think in the overall traffic.
And most of self procclaimed "shady" stuff are just really idiots with too much time on their hands and a server in their basement looking for thrill.
