For over 20 years, the Internet has brought people together, educated, united, and just plain made life easy for us all. But like everything in the world, the Internet has a dark side. Journalist Joseph Bernstein saw that dark side, and what he found isn’t pretty.
The first thing that struck Bernstein was how easy it was to take a walk on the dark web. All one has to do is Google Tor Browser and install the website Tor Project. I highly recommend against doing that. But if you’re going to be stubborn, don’t say you weren’t warned. Many .tor sites are going down anyway thanks to law enforcement or by the host themselves. Some go through portals like Hidden Wiki. But once you’re there, you can find any kind of darkness you want. Any kind of illegal narcotic is easy to find, even prescriptions. So are guns, passports, cheap iPhones, and even porn. One can find the more tangible products, like iPhones and guns and passports on Tor Supermarket. Bernstein says Tor Supermarket is easier to navigate and better looking than a lot of mainstream sites. But if you insist on buying cocaine or Oxycontin on the dark web, and you don’t get it, or the law intercepts your package, don’t go complaining. That’s the ‘honor system’ risk one will take.
Let’s get this out of the way: I DO NOT condone, promote, or encourage such website activities. The reason I even bring up such sites is to educate others of real dangers out there. Parents, please do what you can to block your children and teenagers from the dark web, and tell them why you’re doing it. I think the more we know about such dangers, the more we can prevent them or stay away from them. What other ‘dark websites’ should we know about?