~~ Darknet Trip ~~ A newbie-to-newbie documentation about the darknet Hey there! I'm JMG, a passionate coder, bot developer and 3D artist. This time, I challenged myself to explore the darknet for you (so then you don’t have to 😋 ) and, if you wanna try it yourself, give some advice to complete new people, such as I am. To start, we need to learn about what the darknet actually is. Let’s look at this fancy illustration Now lemme tell you right away that the dark web is not illegal, though it contains a lot of illegal content and sites you should be aware of. The illustration shows: Most of the so-called “internet” is invisible – underneath the water, dark The dark web contains basically everything that’s not discoverable through search engines. Users who don’t have the exact URL can’t visit it. Such as your company's network (“intranet”), private clouds or scientific reports. So, when you visit your company’s own web cloud storage, you are technically visiting the dark web. The dark net, however, is the part of the internet you cannot explore with your simple Waterwolf browser. You will need specialised software, such as the TOR browser –“The Onion Router”. Those website are not discoverable through search engines, and .onion URLs cannot be opened by a normal browser. Just head to https://www.torproject.org/download/ right now and hit the install button. Pretty easy, huh? The installation works the same way as every other application does. Not too magic. Now hit that install button and wait for your snail uni laptop to install that cute code. And hit open. Now. Let the fun begin 🤩 Kaboom 🧨 The first thing you should do is change your browser language to English Why that? That way, potential hackers can’t determine the area you are probably located in. Wonderful. Now hit that connect button. Which one? This one. You will see it takes ages to load. Why that? Well quite easy – Imagine you have a free small VPN, but three times the size. Tor redirects you to three different servers before it redirects you to the actual domain hoster. That’s where the onion comes from – multiple layers until you reach the center. That looks surprisingly usual. Now hit that search bar and type in google.com. No I’m serious. You will notice at least three things: 1. If you got a VPN installed (I’m a good boi I got one) you will be asked if you are a robot (Guess what I’m not) 2. The google prompt will probably have any weird language you don’t understand – that’s good, the onion redirect seems to be working Can someone tell me what language this is Uh you can change the website language in settings again and restart. Well, lemme continue 3. And THAT’s the most surprising for me; YES, you can access clear web websites with the TOR browser. Rather understand the darknet as an extension tor got here. You can browse, surf and watch streams just as you could do it on any other browser. Just with a three layer onion stack giant server VPN on top that makes every site load for like five seconds. 4. Well yeah, windows doesn’t find tor browser right away. Head to C: \Users\<YOURNAME>\Desktop\Tor Browser\ and open the connection. Everything as it’s used to be until now. Let’s visit some sneaky hidden website. How about ... a hidden facebook?! Here you go fella, click on that link and have fun https://www.facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion/ No, you can’t open that in Chrome. What did you expect. Yeahs. That looks pretty normal huh? Funny is, predefined mode is lightmode. In darknet, you know? ... What I can tell ya, that is, you need to know the exact URL for surfing. It’s not like you can “google” the site you need. If you search something in the search bar in tor, it uses DuckDuckGo by default – Remember? No search engine can ever index a site's content. It can just index it’s name ... well. If you know what’s behind “wkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd “, well done, you’re a superbrain (it’s the site from above yeah). Soo you’ll have to know the name. How to get sum? That’s the point. You won’t get them. No. I’m not kidding. Tor is made for anonymous websites. You’ll have to stumble upon them, for example in the most known hidden wiki which looks like this Hm? Yeah, I got the link. Why I don’t give it to you? Cuz this onion grants direct access to all kind of illegal stuff. You can pretty easily find that site though. Good luck chasing for it. Small disclaimer. I don’t take any responsibility for anything you do in the darknet. This guide is meant to be a fun insight, not a complete and secure tutorial. Thank you. Here are some last steps I recommend you to do before starting to browse. 1. Enable a system-wide VPN additionally . While the final host doesn’t know your real IP, you can still look it up by following the connection and back-searching “What IP did you redirect IP xxx.xxx.x.xx to?” And, of course, your internet provider does know what IP joined the onion party. So change it before you even browse a site. 2. Change this setting to at least “Safer”, to add another layer of security. You can find it in settings → Privacy and Security 3. If you wanna be super cautious, don’t run tor in full screen – that way hackers can’t know your actual screen resolution 4. Don’t run tor in your first language (if it’s not english ofc), to not let hackers know where you might live. 5. And, please, don’t click on websites you don’t know. The risk of getting scammed in darknet is way higher than in clearnet. So: Stay safe! That’s it! 🎉 I hope you enjoyed this little journey through the darknet. Make sure to hit me up at https://jmg.run.place or DM me on discord (@jmg_studios; no friend rq). Tell me how you liked it or if you found some interesting sites you want me to explore. Make sure to join my server in order to stay in contact with my community; who knows – maybe I’ll drop another exciting newbie-blog once! See ya 🎉