It’s been three years since we dived a week into the deep web. One thing remains the same: its slowness. You have to arm yourself with patience to enter, but if we come to explore it will be better to keep our eyes open and stop before entering anywhere.
The deep web reminds me of the traditional taverns or restaurants of any country on the planet. The aesthetic part is not important and the content is the protagonist. Far from “flavors” already known, here you have the feeling of being able to discover things that can only exist in this area, and that can lead to unforgettable and nauseating experiences.
A must start point: the hidden wiki
After installing Tor, the logical step to start browsing the deep web is to access the hidden wiki (The Hidden Wiki). Thanks to this list, divided by categories, I was able to find the updated links to hundreds of invisible pages.
In a fundamental service, since the pages constantly change domain and it would be very difficult to find them. To mess things up a bit more, there are different wikis, although their design is very similar and they practically repeat the same structure.
Thanks to this wiki it is relatively easy to find links to pages related to hacking, erotic content, to buy or sell drugs, weapons, technology, financial services, etc.
Most of these links work fine, but some may not have been updated. At the end of these wikis, they usually appear pages divided by languages. Cebolla Chan and Café Cebolla appear in the “Spanish / Español” section, and this will be my starting point.
Create an email and find pages in Spanish
In the vast majority of communities or platforms that I found on the deep web it is a requirement to have a registered user. For this, obviously, it is necessary to have an email. TorBox is one of the most popular hidden mail services, and it can only be accessed through Tor.
I started this journey in Onion Chan, the best known Spanish forum on the deep web. He has died and risen several times and is divided into very different themes: erotica, conspiracy, job offers, downloads of cracked content, etc.
Yes on Yahoo! answers or in Reddit we can find peculiar things, in Onion Chan this is raised to the maximum power. Just a quick glance at the last entries of the “intelligence” subforum I realized the range of possibilities that opened before me:
People asking for help hacking their college grades, “alternative energy” patents, etc.
I have wasted many hours browsing hundreds of posts, with people asking for help hacking their university notes, looking for “alternative energy patents” or conversations about what kinds of meds / drugs they administer to recruits in the military.
Anyway, my favorite section is the one dealing with “conspiracy” topics. Here are from users interested in “buying souls” (yes, “souls”, not weapons), asking “how to integrate into Freemasonry” or sharing witchcraft books.
Things get more serious when I decide to enter the “erotica” subforum, as it is relatively easy to come across content in which they appear minors, girls recorded on the beach topless or the (unfortunately) classic videos of former couples (revenge p**n).
Onion Coffee was born as an alternative Onion Chan, but sharing or making requests for “p*********y of any kind” is prohibited here. There are several areas of the forum where they talk about hacking, security, hacktivism, programming, etc.
Expectations are met, unfortunately
Most people associate the deep web with illegal activities and content that, if “hidden”, is for some obscure reason. In many cases this statement is true.
Digital Gangster is a good example, since here they offer me the possibility of hire a hacker to spy on other people, attack other websites, steal email passwords, social networks, etc. In fact, when entering this website, a welcome text appears that is a declaration of intent:
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is being curious. My crime is judging people by what they say and think, not by what they seem.
It is also very easy to come across pages where buy firearms. In BMG (Black Market Guns) I have found different models of pistols, submachine guns or night vision equipment. The price is reflected in both Bitcoin and dollars.
After finishing the Silk Road, the authorities have gone after the successor pages in which illegal products were sold: Alphabay and Hansa. Anyway, in Connect Mega Labs they continue to sell “bulk drugs”.
They boast of “selling the best quality drugs”, created midway between laboratories in China and India. The list of products is immense, and it strikes me that they start with derivatives of Valium, Diazepam, Xanax, etc.
Continuing with the illegal activities, in Counterfeiting Center I have come across offers of passports, residence visas or a driving license. For example, a driving license costs 0.0884 Bitcoins, which at the moment is equivalent to about 665 euros. A passport is more expensive, amounting to 830 euros.
The ___ographic content of the deep web would give for hundreds of articles. There are platforms for all imaginable affiliations. In some they asked me to pay with cryptocurrencies to access the photos and videos, but many are totally free.
I have tried to avoid lists of celebrities, people having relationships with animals, relatives practicing incest or videos of real rapes. Here the stomach of each one is the limit.
Not everything is p*********y and illegal content
I have been able to verify that most of the topics about the deep web are still met, but looking a little more it is also easy to find interesting pages in which to waste time.
In The Puzzle Room I have spent more hours than I should have. Here proliferate puzzles inspired by conspiracy theories (which I have already verified to be a success on the deep web). There are puzzles that are solved with a click and others that have led me through doors and somewhat outdated HTML animations.
One tip: don’t play in the wee hours of the morning if you want to sleep peacefully.
I am used to surfing the Internet listening to music. During this week I have turned to Deep Web Radio to listen to jazz, baroque music, heavy metal, etc. You just have to click on the URL of the stream and press the play button.
Hidden Answers is a very simple page that has a version in English, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Here users leave questions on any topic, for community members to help them solve them.
It’s great for ask very specific questions, but I think the really interesting thing is to dive through the entries and comments of other users. These days I have found people interested in setting up a “group of occultists”, sharing linux manuals or tutorials to navigate public networks.
There’s also room for ridiculous pages, like Dancing Monkey – a place where a dancing monkey appears on a color-changing background. He greets me and asks for donations in Bitcoin that (apparently) will help me have better luck. Yay Ponies is not far behind, since it is a platform where all the episodes of ‘My Little Pony’ are hosted.
During these seven days I have been able to verify that the deep web is still a place where you can find everything you can imagine and a little more. Popular platforms such as Alphabay, Grams or Hansa have fallen, but new communities have quickly emerged to serve as replacements.
The deep web is still a very slow and tedious experience, and it has put my patience to the bomb proof. After waiting 15 seconds for a website to load, there is a good chance that you will end up browsing a site where you would not like to be. This is perhaps what makes her attractive and disgusting in equal measure.
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