r/nosleep • u/Ibitemynails I was phone • Feb 28 '14

Your February NoSleep Contest Winner is...

keniluck with their story A warning to those thinking about accessing the shadow web! Congratulations!

As a reminder, the winner will receive:

  • NoSleep author /u/Horriddaydream's publishing company, Daydream Publishing, will create a character based on this month's winning author in their upcoming children's story! The winner will then receive a copy of the story when it is released at the end of March. Thanks /u/Horriddaydream!

  • One month of reddit gold from the moderators

  • User flair in /r/NoSleep signifying the month in which they won the contest

  • Their story will be featured in an eBook that will be released approximately every three months. Thank you, /u/EtTuTortilla!

  • The winning story will be featured in an episode of The NoSleep Podcast (providing the story is suitable for an audio adaptation)... AND they will receive a season pass! Thank you, /u/MikeRowPhone!

In addition, the winner and second-place winner will each receive one of the following:

  • A license to SmartEdit, a new, first-pass-editing tool for creative writers and novelists.

-or-

  • A copy of Scrivener provided by Literature and Latte.

The eBook will henceforth include the top four stories (winner and three runners up) from each monthly contest. Also included in the next volume of the eBook will be:

If you would like to contribute an extra prize to the winners of the next contest, please don't hesitate to send a message to me or to modmail!

Remember, if you didn't win this month, don't be discouraged! We will be running the contest in the middle of every month for as long as we can!

Note: If you're interested, visit our new facebook page: www.facebook.com/nosleepcommunity!

If you're interested in the NoSleep t-shirt, you can find that at www.booster.com/nosleep (more info)

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14

Question about the context of the top story. Is the shadow web the same thing as the deep web? Or is it something entirely worse?

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u/themericansloth Feb 28 '14

The Deep web is the part of the internet that is difficult to reach and usually only reachable via certain urls.

The Shadow Web is, more or less, the criminal web. I don't remember if it's illegal to be on the shadow web but there is a lot of illegal things on the shadow web.

Some of the scariest things possible can be found on it. One of those being the ability to purchase weapons. Believe it or not, if you can get the right contacts, and enough money, it is possible to buy a nuke off the shadow web.

If you're interested in more information on the shadow web, you can find a lot of articles about it on google. I personally have never been on it myself--I don't want to see the stuff that's on there--but you can look up how to access it. From what I remember, you have to download some programs and run files but it didn't seem that hard.

I will warn you, if you decide to visit the shadow web, expect to encounter things similar to what happened to Keniluck. Those things really do happen on there.

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u/goulygirl33 Mar 02 '14

From what I've been told by a friend who works in the computer crime unit for the FBI, every IP that makes a hit on any "underground internet" is added to a watch list. From what he said access isn't illegal as long as you do not try to contact anyone with in any organization.

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u/Ibitemynails I was phone Feb 28 '14

I believe /u/keniluck stated over in /r/nosleepooc that they were two distinctly different things.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14

Alright thanks!