'As I browsed from a subdirectory back to the parent, at the top was a new HTML file named something like '1-.HELLO-THERE.html.' The time stamp was from right that minute.

The images were of faxes, apparently of both military and medical nature.' The HTML files appeared to be records a psychologist or similar mental health professional would keep. A VisualRoute traced it as far as Colorado. nslookup returned no reverse records for the IP. 'I finally came upon a web server with a huge directory of HTML files and TIFF images, with a few smaller subdirectories containing the same. A few of the IP's were web servers with little to nothing on them, mostly Apache on Linux or some BSD, at least one IIS server I can recall.' The default Cisco credentials from back in the day worked on most of them, but I didn't poke around. Some were routers with banner messages I could telnet to - almost all at universities ('Warning! This is a secure system at University of Bla Bla.'). 'I gathered all of the IPs in a text file and began enumerating. I started through the source, and hidden in the comments of a javascript were various IP addresses. The messages seemed to be cryptic in nature, like several people trying to pass secret notes.

Eventually I came upon an odd page - it appeared to be random thoughts from different people, but for the time, it was very well-designed. 'I was browsing random blogs, Geocities sites, and the like, just going from link to link. Real 'deep web' story, not just one about illicit activities online. Only discussion boards and some banking sites had anything approaching mature front-end/back-end combinations. Web pages were, for the most part, still very basic HTML with Javascript. They See Us (From Reddit User fake_fakington) We picked out 7 deep web stories that left us shocked and terrified and we feel it might just send a chills down your spine as well. Users browse all sorts of nefarious content behind the curtain of anonymity and it has sprung up a few stories that made their way to the surface web. We did a detailed analysis on the Deep Web and we've gone a bit further to shed light on the underbelly of the dark web.

The ‘Dark Web' is notorious for websites that host downright outrageous content which may just push the boundaries of any human being.

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