Gary Glitter.

[blackpoolhibs]

Hello hello i'm back again. :faf::faf:

[archie]

I didn't know he was from Blackpool!

[Hibs4185]

New hearts entertainment director?

[blackpoolhibs]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64946392

[archie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64946392

Ahhh...

[Jones28]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64946392

Oh throw the ****ing key away already.

[heretoday]

new hearts entertainment director?

ffs.....

[Pretty Boy]

It's unconfirmed but the accepted story seems to be he was caught trying to access the dark web from his bail hostel.

There are a lot of misconceptions and untruths about the dark web and there are a whole host of good reasons why someone may want to access it. It is also somewhere that can allow those who know how to do so to access to some pretty depraved material though. There's good reason why a convicted paedophile should have their access to it restricted. I would argue if this is what has happened then it suggest Gadd is a failed rehabilitation project and he should serve out the remainder of his sentence, which probably means the rest of his life, behind bars.

[archie]

It's unconfirmed but the accepted story seems to be he was caught trying to access the dark web from his bail hostel.

There are a lot of misconceptions and untruths about the dark web and there are a whole host of good reasons why someone may want to access it. It is also somewhere that can allow those who know how to do so to access to some pretty depraved material though. There's good reason why a convicted paedophile should have their access to it restricted. I would argue if this is what has happened then it suggest Gadd is a failed rehabilitation project and he should serve out the remainder of his sentence, which probably means the rest of his life, behind bars.

Interesting. Solely for my education, what might be 'legitimate' reasons why someone in the UK would want to access the dark Web?

[Pretty Boy]

Interesting. Solely for my education, what might be 'legitimate' reasons why someone in the UK would want to access the dark Web?

Anonymous email services, particularly when people are sharing sensitive data or are in countries with controlled or monitored internet access. Other just like the extra security that an email service such as Proton Mail gives them, it's far more encrypted than comparable services on the 'surface' web'. It's also used by whistleblowers and investigative journalists to access and share information. A lot of people just like the fact that Tor search engines such as Duck Duck Go are ad free. Access to news is another huge issue for people in countries with restricted web access, the likes of the BBC, New York Times and Wall Street Journal all have mirror dark web versions of their site. A big one is also access to academic research; a lot of sites charge a small fortune to access such things, the dark web has sites where the authors can upload their work and allow it to be accessible for free to those who know how to find it. Finally there are things that are dubious legally but largely harmless; pirate radio, chat rooms for urban explorers to share how to access abandoned buildings, access to read rare comics circumventing copyright etc.

It's tricky to use and you really have to know what you are looking for but it's a legitimate resource and plenty mainstream sites (Facebook, Twitter, BBC) have embraced it. Dark web probably makes it sound more illegitmate than it is, 'unindexed' web would probably be more accurate. I quite like it because it doesn't leave cookies or track search queries and the like so I'm not bombarded with targeted ads for days after searching for something. A search site like SearX is also far more detailed and content specific than Google could ever hope to be.

**This post was sent using a Firefox browser from the surface web:greengrin

[archie]

Anonymous email services, particularly when people are sharing sensitive data or are in countries with controlled or monitored internet access. Other just like the extra security that an email service such as Proton Mail gives them, it's far more encrypted than comparable services on the 'surface' web'. It's also used by whistleblowers and investigative journalists to access and share information. A lot of people just like the fact that Tor search engines such as Duck Duck Go are ad free. Access to news is another huge issue for people in countries with restricted web access, the likes of the BBC, New York Times and Wall Street Journal all have mirror dark web versions of their site. A big one is also access to academic research; a lot of sites charge a small fortune to access such things, the dark web has sites where the authors can upload their work and allow it to be accessible for free to those who know how to find it. Finally there are things that are dubious legally but largely harmless; pirate radio, chat rooms for urban explorers to share how to access abandoned buildings, access to read rare comics circumventing copyright etc.

It's tricky to use and you really have to know what you are looking for but it's a legitimate resource and plenty mainstream sites (Facebook, Twitter, BBC) have embraced it. Dark web probably makes it sound more illegitmate than it is, 'unindexed' web would probably be more accurate. I quite like it because it doesn't leave cookies or track search queries and the like so I'm not bombarded with targeted ads for days after searching for something. A search site like SearX is also far more detailed and content specific than Google could ever hope to be.

**This post was sent using a Firefox browser from the surface web:greengrin

Thank you. That was really interesting. My ( admittedly limited) understanding suggested guns, drug deals and porn!

[Pretty Boy]

Thank you. That was really interesting. My ( admittedly limited) understanding suggested guns, drug deals and porn!

There's plenty of that if you go looking for it too.

And fixed football matches. Or certainly aspects of football matches that are 'fixed'. The difficulty there is separating those that genuine from nefarious sorts preying on dark web 'newbies' and charging them for access to sure fire things that are nothing of the sort.

[McD]

Anonymous email services, particularly when people are sharing sensitive data or are in countries with controlled or monitored internet access. Other just like the extra security that an email service such as Proton Mail gives them, it's far more encrypted than comparable services on the 'surface' web'. It's also used by whistleblowers and investigative journalists to access and share information. A lot of people just like the fact that Tor search engines such as Duck Duck Go are ad free. Access to news is another huge issue for people in countries with restricted web access, the likes of the BBC, New York Times and Wall Street Journal all have mirror dark web versions of their site. A big one is also access to academic research; a lot of sites charge a small fortune to access such things, the dark web has sites where the authors can upload their work and allow it to be accessible for free to those who know how to find it. Finally there are things that are dubious legally but largely harmless; pirate radio, chat rooms for urban explorers to share how to access abandoned buildings, access to read rare comics circumventing copyright etc.

It's tricky to use and you really have to know what you are looking for but it's a legitimate resource and plenty mainstream sites (Facebook, Twitter, BBC) have embraced it. Dark web probably makes it sound more illegitmate than it is, 'unindexed' web would probably be more accurate. I quite like it because it doesn't leave cookies or track search queries and the like so I'm not bombarded with targeted ads for days after searching for something. A search site like SearX is also far more detailed and content specific than Google could ever hope to be.

**This post was sent using a Firefox browser from the surface web:greengrin

That’s really interesting PB, didn’t know a lot of that, thanks for sharing