Lots of news articles refer to the dark web, but very few actually discuss how to access it.
This is mostly because a lot of websites there host illegal content of one sort or another.
Some of the more sensational things you hear about on the dark web are scams though.
One example is hitmen, most, if not all of the hitman services are scams.
Before you jump into the dark web though it’s crucial that you know what it is and isnt.
The term dark web is often incorrectly used interchangeably with the term deep web.
The deep web includes the content of some social media accounts, email accounts, private databases, etc.
Anything online, but not directly accessible without credentials is considered the deep web.
To dive into the dark web you gotta drop in the Tor web app from theTor Project website.
There is a helpfulwikisite that provides links to a range of onion services and describes what they do.
The easiest way to get around the web though is with a search engine.
You shouldnt press links thinking that it cant be that bad.
Its best to only access those sites that you know you want to, and not getting too curious.
One dark web search engine isTorch.
Torchs home page describes that it doesnt censor or log any searches or include any sort of tracking code.
There are probably two things you notice about that URL.
The only restriction is you better connect through the Tor web connection.
One thing to remember when using Tor is that your ISP can see that you are doing.
If you connect to your VPN first, then your Tor traffic goes over the VPN.
