- A red room is a room where you can live stream
the murder or torture of a individual.
I've bet someone to go find one and show it to me.
I'm sure someone has done it.
(dark music)
Hi, I'm Pizzabagel.
I'm going by this moniker to protect
my own confidentiality and my own safety.
I was the executive business director
of an extremely large illegal enterprise
that made well over eight digits on the dark web.
I'm here today with Buzzfeed to help
espouse some myths about the dark web.
What are the difference between the clear net,
the dark net, and the deep web?
Well if you wanna think about it like an iceberg,
you have what's showing above the waterline, right?
So you have just a little bit of the iceberg.
You have the waterline.
And that waterline is where stuff starts to get murky.
Then you're getting into the deep web.
And if you don't know,
icebergs are significantly larger under.
It's just the tip of a mountain versus the whole mountain.
Anything that's not indexed by a search engine,
as in, anything that you can't pull up on Google
so it's not ending in a normal domain,
dot com, dot gov, dot org, it is part of the deep web.
If something is on the deep web, in the parts
of the deep web that starts to get into criminal activity,
that is the dark web.
Both are legal to access.
Is it illegal to go on the dark web?
That is a very common myth.
It is not illegal to go on both the dark or the deep web.
You can sign up and you can freely browse
any large dark net marketplace.
Researchers, law enforcement and normal citizens
do it all the time without any legal repercussions.
Where the legal trouble starts
is when you start buying things, shipping things,
and distributing content.
That is where you will get into trouble.
Is the dark web bigger than the clear net?
Yes.
The dark web is significantly larger than the clear net,
on average about four to 500 times
larger than the clear net.
Are red rooms real?
A red room is a room commonly painted red where you can
live stream the murder or torture of a individual.
While you can't say nothing exists, right,
I'm sure someone has done it.
I have never heard of it, never seen it,
never heard of it talked about.
And I've even been in bets that they don't exist.
I've bet someone to go find one and show it to me
and they couldn't.
Maybe they do exist.
And, when you do hear about them, they're often private.
It's not a public done thing.
Can you hire a hitman on the dark web?
While one or two might exist, and with hitmen it is moral
so hitmen are a real thing from history
and still in reality, but they are not remotely common.
I've never heard of someone getting a hit placed on them.
I've never heard of someone who is taking money to go do it.
The hitmen that you hear about more
are with the internal people, so it would be,
when you had organized crime with large gangs,
it would be gangs sending one of their members to go do it.
But these freelance guys who are taking
large sums of cash to go do it,
never seen or heard of that in practice.
Those transactions are often not from the dark web
or from the internet, but more of an in-person connection.
True or false?
The dark web is evil.
I would have to mostly disagree with that.
The deep web helps to support journalists
and people in censor-prone countries
where it can help to get information out
and help to get information in like movies
and spread awareness, especially Western culture.
So I would say I do not believe it is evil
because it does mostly have positive intentions.
Are there secret layers to the dark web?
So, the dark web is accessed through a browser called TOR,
and it is called the onion router.
Similar to an onion, there are layers.
While there are different parts
and they do tend to clump together,
I would not say it is like layer to layer.
A lot of stuff just links to other stuff.
Can you buy passwords and credit card information
on the dark web?
Yes, you can buy passwords, credit card information,
social security numbers and a lot of stuff.
They tend to be randomly selected
so you're not going to go chase after someone.
And if you are afraid of that, I would heavily recommend
using a password locker application.
They are there to help protect you.
The people mostly effected by these security breaches
are people who don't take their security seriously.
Are there certain sectors to the deeper dark web
that are isolated from the rest of the web?
Yes and no.
There are communities, they're not large.
They tend just to be internet forums
where people can basically build off each other.
They are usually dedicated to something certain,
so you have hackers and you have
people who wanna go find Atlantis.
You have people who operate on the dark net
about how the moon landing was fake
because they don't want NASA to come assassinate them.
You do get these hidden sectors.
But they're not as hidden as much as they are
just isolated due to the outlandishness of the subject.
The dark web is something that has a lot of rumors about it
and it's seen in a very negative light.
And I think that we need to overcome it.
The dark web started and still largely operates
as a safe space for people to convey ideas,
messages, without fear of repercussions.
And the one big thing that I wanna hit home
and I hope everyone can take home from watching this video,
is the dark net does not look like it has dark mode enabled.
It is not a scary, black background
with lines of code going around.
It is a very nice and clean user interface,
so the deep and dark web host is a safe space
and I think that we need to reduce the stigma behind it.
(electronic beat)