A comprehensive guide to access the Dark Web

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This article isn’t meant to promote unlawful Internet behaviours, but to help users preserve their privacy. I’m not responsible for readers’ immoral or illegal acts. Before understanding what a TOR browser is, how to use it, and how to access the deeper layers of the Internet with it, it is necessary to define Deep Web and Dark Web. People often mix up these two concepts.

 

What is Deep Web?

This is a layer of the Internet that a standard browser can’t reach, or we need permission to do so. This area of the Internet conceals government information. Medical reports, databases, website user details Private YouTube videos, etc. Statistics suggest the average Internet user can access 4% of the Internet information. The whole network is compared to a glacier that just protrudes into the ocean surface. Ocean is the Deep Web.

 

What is Dark Web?

Dark Web is a minor section of the Deep Web, like a web surface. Dark Web pages are user-accessible. This requires the TOR browser. The majority of the material available on this layer pertains to its criminal nature. However, it is not true that only criminals use the Dark Web. Many users here prioritize privacy and seek to protect their identities. Remember that governments in some countries are harsh toward their citizens and restrict the freedom of expression on the Internet. Dark Web may be the only option to avoid censorship. Many human rights activists and defenders from nations where such rights are violated can be found in forums on the Dark Web.

 

How to access the Dark Web?

The TOR browser, required for surfing this part of the Internet, guarantees us anonymity and solid protection of our privacy. BitCoin transactions are fully anonymous and the connection between client and vendor is effectively encrypted. Even if we try to buy something perfectly legal there, we can’t be sure that the seller will be honest. The best advice I can give you is to let go of any transactions while on the Dark Web.

Tor (The Onion Router) is a free open source browser designed for uncensored communication. The name TOR derives from the onion routing developed by two US Naval Research Laboratory employees. In 2004, the TOR code was given under a free license to Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson.

Provided that we take all reasonable measures to keep our identity and keep the nature of our equipment a secret. Any revelation of TOR users is the result of their own negligence or inattention. Simply opening a file downloaded from the Dark Web in a browser other than TOR will reveal our true location.

 

Safest Operating system for accessing Dark Web

Tails is an operating system that works directly from a flash drive or CD/DVD. Such a system does not use a hard drive, and therefore has no connection to data stored on our computer. When you turn off such a system, all temporary files, saved passwords, cookies and anything else that could leave a trace on us are deleted.

Tails is a very simple and fully functional, secure operating system. It has a built-in TOR browser, Thunderbird email that encrypts the messages we send, LibreOffice, GIMP and InkScape, and the OnionShare application with which we can share files and folders on the TOR network.

 

Which search engines are there for Dark Web?

These are search engines that look for websites with the extension “.onion” when searching for hidden services on the dark web.

Grams

The most well-known Dark Web search engine is called Grams. Its logo is inspired by the Google logo with regard to colour and the layout of the results pages is just as user-friendly as Google. Grams appears visually similar to Google, yet the search results are less consistent.  Grams is mostly used for drug trafficking-related research inquiries, but it is also used to look for weapons, credit card fraud, hacker services, and contract killings.

ahmia.fi

Ahmia has made it a point to filter out and not display any results for child pornography in the search results. Since there are so few Deep search engines, Ahmia.fi is one of the very few to at least draw a thin moral line. With the required technical requirements, Ahmia can be added as an extension to the majority of common web browsers.

Torch

According to Torch, it has over ten million active users, which could be attributed to it being promoted on the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The search results are provided in the same way that Google does. Onion should actively enlist their pages in a directory that search engines like Torch, Grams, and ahmia.fi can use to find them.

 

List of Dark Web Marketplace

This is a comprehensive list of Dark Web marketplaces that you may use to buy or sell a variety of services and products. This list updated frequently so you can quickly find all active marketplace places links in one place. There are an a plenty of things to keep in mind when buying or selling goods or services on dark web marketplaces, such as consistently using 2FA login, sticking to well-known market locations, using verified buyers and sellers, etc. If you’re new to the dark web, check out the guide on how to access it completely anonymously.

• Empire Market — Darkweb Marketplace — “6ngvt5ueyjyo62zx”
• Valhalla Darkweb Market — Darknet Markets — “valhallaxmn3fydu”
• Grey Market — Darknet Marketplace — “grymktgwyxq3sikl”
• DarkMarket — Darknet Market — “darknet4rbfizlg53dwc5lt5hj4mewcgltubcpvrfpvjavm64inaf3ad”
• WallStreet Marketplace — Darkweb Marketplace — “wallstyizjhkrvmj”
• Samsara Market — Darknet Markets — “samsaraccrn2jmin”
• Berlusocni marketplace — Darknet Marketplace — “berlusconifsfwkp”
• Tochka Darkweb Market — Darknet Markets — “tochka3evlj3sxdv”
• HYDRA — “hydraruzxpnew4af”
• Berlusconi Market — “hky3mzk3jtmd4zt4”
• Weasyl — “weasylartw55noh2”
• UnderMarket (Scammer) — “un62d2ywi33bho53”
• SearchOpenBazaar — “vnjzhvm5gkctyldn”
• Green Road — “greenroxwc5po3ab”
• Plastic Marketplace — “cards5yvy44gucvo”
• House of Lions — Darknet Markets — “leomarketjdridoo”
• DarkShop — Darknet Markets/French — “l3pwaatzhgswqur3”
• Silk Road 3 — Darknet Markets — “reloadxnkwi5nsbg”
• UnderGround — Darknet Markets — “udujmgcoqw6o4cp4”
• Alphabay Darknet Market (Seized) — Darknet Markets — “pwoah7foa6au2pul”
• Hansa Market (Seized) — Darknet Markets — “hansamkt2rr6nfg3”
• Cave Tor — Dark Social Network — “cavetord6bosm3sl”
• Acropolis Markets — Darknet Markets — “acropol4ti6ytzeh”
• Rapture — Darknet Market Link — “lnkfzecnslxo6jqc”
• Tochka Free Market — “tochka3evlj3sxdv”
• BlackMarket — “blackmarthw3vp7a”
• The Open Road — “o3cvx3oxareo7aop”
• Midland City — “midcity7ccxtrzhn”

 

What is the potential of Dark Web?

The Dark Web is a shopping paradise for cybercriminals, offering everything from overload attacks (DDoS attacks) to virus creation kits and spam campaigns. Everything that is illegal under existing law: firearms, illegal drugs, stolen or falsified documents, credit / debit can be found on The Darknet.

Several of the dark web forums Use a recommendation-based approval process for new Retailers. New customers are only allowed to become retailers if they have received the designation of “trusted” from other, already established customers. Before customers could read anything on the website or make purchases, they occasionally had to be accepted by the owner, pay a “membership fee,” or make a deposit.

From the Dark Web, what opportunities exist? That is conceivable on the Internet accessible to the public. In addition, the anonymity of the Dark Web enables practically limitless opportunities to supply illegal services, murders, weapons, and narcotics, as well as to discuss or acquire pornographic materials of any kind and recordings of both murder and abuse.

 

Some of the most notorious cases on the “Dark Web”

One of the most well-known cases of a darkened community was the Silk Road marketplace. Silk Road has provided a platform for buying and selling a variety of illicit goods, including narcotics and firearms for recreational use. The first dark web market Silk Road, was established in 2011. Although it was shut down by the government in 2013, a number of copycat markets have since sprung up. Cryptocurrencies, the bulk of which rely on decentralization and enhanced safety measures, were developed in part thanks to marketplaces like Silk Road. On order to complete transactions in dark marketplaces, many cryptocurrencies are preferred due to their anonymity and privacy.

Also this incident made headlines in the United States: a young man increased his pocket money by creating and selling ricin. Ricin is a protein obtained from the spurge plant that kills human cells and can be lethal even in tiny doses.

On Dark Web , you can literally purchase anything, including the most absurd and blatantly unlawful items. I would like to clarify that I am only providing this information for educational purposes and in no way urge criminal conduct. On the contrary, I intend to indicate and criticize all of this with my article.