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I Went on the Dark Web and Instantly Regretted It

Accessing the forbidden parts of the World Wide Web, only to realize the depravity of humanity

Kallol Mazumdar
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8 min readMar 13, 2024

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How to access Dark Web? It made me sick
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Lately, I have been doing a lot of crazy things and today I might have done the craziest thing possible, i.e., I accessed the Dark Web. Many of you might be familiar with the term but still for you folks who are hearing this term for the first time: the Dark Web is one of the parts of the Deep Web. To know about Dark Web you require some basic understanding of the Deep Web. Regardless, the Dark Web is a secretive, hard-to-trace, encrypted digital ecosystem on the internet that is filled with criminals, and infested with drug cartels, UN-sanctioned terrorist organizations, political dissenters, anonymous journalists, and Government spies.

Dark web a place of risk: My Dark web story
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Dark Web vs Deep Web

Deep Web is 95% of the content on the internet which is nonindexable by search engines or has a strange re-routing of connections and multi-layered entry tunnels before reaching the server. These are often indicative of private networks that operate to and fro via unique bridge networks…

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Kallol Mazumdar
ILLUMINATION

Writing to unfurl and deconstruct the deceptive cover laid out on my gaze. Let the flow of ideas illuminate a part of me and a whole lot of you. 🌺🌻💐🍂🤺