First: the hot sheets. Subreddit forums for DeepWeb, onions, and Tor
are the way to go in terms of gathering a backgrounder for entry points
into DarkNet. Unsurprisingly though, much of the information currently
on the surface Internet about the actual underbelly of the web is
outdated. Ever since Silk Road’s takedown last year, the Under-web has been changing.
To get into the Deep Web these days, you first have to download the
Tor add-on for Firefox. By downloading the Tor Browser Bundle from the Tor Project
you are securing your anonymity to browse, which is the main draw for
using Tor. Once you have downloaded the browser bundle, Tor builds a
circuit of encrypted connections through a randomized relay. In layman’s
terms that means that your online activity is covered as Tor randomly
pings your IP address from one place to the other, making whatever you
do less traceable.
Multiple Redditors urge reading the Tor Project’s warning page,
where they discourage torrent file sharing and downloading while using
Tor. The idea is to follow protocol maintaining your anonymity while
browsing, chatting, or navigating. This obviously includes giving away
your personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, names,
time zones, or home addresses in any context.
The newest iteration of the Tor browser, Tor 4.0,
was released in October 2014. It contains a variety of product tweaks
designed primarily to enable use behind China’s massive Internet
firewall.
Other precautions include
placing duct tape on your webcam, enabling your computer’s firewall,
and turning off cookies and JavaScript. Again, here is where you want to
be completely free of an identity, so treading cautiously is key. The
NSA and other government outlets peruse the Dark Web and onion sites
frequently using cross-reference tools, malware, and remote
administration tools to de-anonymize users engaging in illegal activity.
While the Deep Web houses the retail of weapons, drugs, and illicit
erotica, there are also useful tools for journalists, researchers, or
thrill seekers. It’s also worth noting that mere access through Tor is
not illegal but can arouse suspicion with the law. Illegal transactions
usually begin on the Deep Web but those transactions quite often head
elsewhere for retail, private dialoguing, or in-person meetups; that’s
how most people get caught by law enforcement officials.
For mobile users, several browsers exist which purport to—more or
less—allow Tor to be used on an Android or iOS device. These browsers
include OrWeb, Anonymous Browser Connect Tor, the mobile Firefox add-on, Onion Browser, and Red Onion.
However, it is important to note that security concerns have been
raised for all of these browsers and that anonymous browsing cannot be
100% guaranteed for any of these.
WHERE TO GO ONCE YOU’RE ON THE INSIDE
After reading up on the material, downloading Tor, and logging out of
every other application, you can finally open Tor’s Browser Bundle to
begin secure navigation. Network navigation is slow once you are inside
because of the running relay, so expect pages to load at a snail’s pace.
The most common suggestion on Reddit is to start at the “Hidden
Wiki.” The Hidden Wiki has a similar interface as Wikipedia and lists by
category different sites to access depending on your interest.
Categories include: Introduction Points, News/History, Commercial
Services, Forums/Boards/Chans, and H/P/A/W/V/C (Hack, Phreak, Anarchy,
Warez, Virus, Crack) just to name a few. Under each of these headings
are multiple sites with an onion address and a brief description of what
you will find there.
Many of the listed sites on the Hidden Wiki though have been taken down. Deep Web Tor, Tor Jump, Tor Answers, and Tor.info were all busts. When the feds took down Silk Road, many other sites also fell victim and/or are currently down for maintenance. Still, gun, drug, and child porn marketplaces operate
even though they are on much smaller scales and with a fraction of the
reach than that of Silk Road or Atlantis, another drug-peddling site.
Some pages are less nefarious, but arouse your curiosity nonetheless.
StaTors.Net is the Twitter for Tor users and Hell Online is the
antisocial network with 369 members and 15 different groups. Torchan
resembles Reddit, though you need to enter the username and password
torchan2 for access, and is still up and running. But recent activity
except in Request and Random rooms has all but stopped.
In the Random room a user asked for a new link to Silk Road and the
responses were limited. Another user posting an image of a child fully
clothed featuring bare feet pleading for a site featuring underage bare
feet. An Anonymous user responded: “Someone please give this guy a link,
this poor guy has been looking/asking for over a month now.”
One popular chat service is OnionChat, an anonymous Tor-based real-time chat room quasi-affiliated with the Onions subreddit. The project’s code is available on GitHub as well.
The DeepWeb Link Directory in the site OnionDir had some promising
hyperlinks and some not-so-promising ones like the now defunct Deep Web
Radio and a blog claiming to be a Deep Web blog but was actually just
stories dedicated to spanking.
The New Yorker Strongbox is a secure transmission for
writers and editors where I was given the code name: riddle yeah
abreacts murgeoning. Through a given codename you can submit a message
and/or file to the New Yorker‘s editorial staff. Mike Tigas,
a news application developer for ProPublica, has a functioning blog in
the Deep Web but has not posted anything new for some time, which was
true for many other blogs as well.
NEW SITES TO EXPLORE
Reddit user NekroTor
is on a quest to reboot many of the Freedom Hosting sites that were
taken down. On February 16th of this year, on his onion-routed blog,
Nekrotown, he wrote, “2 days ago the BlackMarket Reloaded forum got
seized. On the same day, the long-awaited Utopia Market was seized,
which just goes to show that all the markets fucking suck these days
except for Agora and TMP, and that you should just wait until
BlackMarket Reloaded opens up again… eventually …5 years later, no BMR.”
NekroTor is correct in writing that most of the content right now on
the Dark Web is not that great. On top of the fact that there used to be
a wealth of sites for illegal black market interactions, there also
used to be radio, books, blogs, political conversations, and even an
Encyclopedia Dramatica that was a satirical culture-based wiki and is
now laden with porn and pop-ups.
NekroTor created a new version of Hidden Wiki that has some
functional links to audio and video streaming as well as some up-to-date
forums for socializing and buying and selling. There are still a few
image boards left, but the popular Onii-chan has the words “Well be back
later” typed over spinning dildos.
REDDITORS WHO ARE REACHING OUT FOR DEEP WEB DIRECTION
After watching House of Cards, user TrelianScar
turned to Reddit for guidance on how to navigate the Dark Web.
TrelianScar is not alone. The Deep Web is making appearances in the
media, in dinner conversations, and of course on Internet forums. One
user jokingly writes to TrelianScar saying, “Wait till we send you an
iPad. Then talk to the Dutch oil painting. Then await instructions,”
referencing HOC’s unrealistic depiction of Deep Web interactions.
On a more serious note though, user Serbia_Strong
writes, “What are you looking for first of all? Drugs? Guns? Assassins?
Credit cards or counterfeit cash? I’d start your journey at the Hidden
Wiki and then narrow in on your interests. I pretty much save every site
I come across (you can’t exactly just google them). Start at The Hidden
Wiki and if you need any links just ask. Enjoy your descent into
madness :)”
Another user, Dexter-Del-Rey explained a similar conundrum last week—he too is new to the Deep Web
and wants some functional starter links. Redditor Ampernand writes back
saying, “On the topic of torchan… here’s a good piece on how it fellauthored
by the previous host. Currently torchan is hosted by someone that
allows cp, gore etc, censors critics and doesn’t give a flying fuck
about the community. Effectively torchan has become exactly what it was
trying to not be. Also, nntpchan is better.” Ampernand links to
NNTP-chan, which is a new forum replacing the image board Onii-chan.
New channels are popping up daily in the Deep Web. Currently,
marketplace alternatives to Silk Road, Agora, and Pandora are the most
frequented. Nonetheless, both TrelianScar and Dexter-Del-Rey were each
respectively warned in their threads that the Dark Web is chock-full of
scammers and is quite unlike its Hollywood depiction.
Interestingly, the Deep Web has lost much of its stigma over the past
year and mainstream web services are experimenting with the platform
even if they’re not embracing it. In late October 2014, Facebook enabled
Tor browser users to visit them anonymously, saying in a press release
that “It’s important to us at Facebook to provide methods for people to
use our site securely.” http://securityzap.com/massive-deep-web-links-2015-updated-june-2015/#sthash.SoD6BtvO.dpbs
Massive .onion links dumb http://osearchkiq5mvet6.onion/ or http://hss3uro2hsxfogfq.onion/ Not Evil .onion search engine source: geekboy.co
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