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So now that we have everything installed and configured, we know which browsers to use and we are connected

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to the Tor network.

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It's time to go ahead and actually start browsing the deep net and online services.

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Now, if you think of it, we've been using the Internet for a while and we take it for granted.

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So usually when you turn on your computer, you open your web browser and then you start going to your

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favorite websites because we already know these websites and we know their domain names.

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When it comes to the deep net, though, things are slightly different first because we are still new

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to this.

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So you don't really know many websites.

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You can't directly go to websites.

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This will change over time.

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If you start using it for a while, obviously you will have favorite websites and you'll know them and

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you'll be going directly to them.

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Not only that, but we're also used to using Google and other search engines to search for websites

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that are interesting to us.

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Unfortunately, Google and most search engines do not index online services.

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So if you search for a certain topic and if there are onion services or onion websites that cover this

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topic, Google or these other search engines will not show it to you because they ignore these websites.

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Therefore, in this lecture, I want to show you some entry points to to our hidden services or online

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services.

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What I mean by entry points is websites that we can use to discover other websites or to get to other

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websites or to other online services.

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Even though we're using the deep net, which is, like I said, slightly different than the clear net

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or the Internet that you use all the time.

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The idea of finding websites is very similar.

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The easiest method is using search engines.

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So I'm going to cover a number of search engines in here.

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And the second method is using directories or websites that will list other websites.

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So starting with search engines and starting with the simplest one, we're going to go to DuckDuckGo

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dot com.

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Now this is a clear net website.

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You can access this website without using the Tor browser and using the search engine.

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You can search for websites on both on the clear net and search for Tor hidden services or onion services.

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Now the cool thing about DuckDuckGo is the fact that it does not collect any data about the users,

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unlike Google and other search engines, and it does not show targeted ads.

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So it's more private than other search engines.

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And like I said, we can use it to discover tor hidden services.

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Now, the way I accessed it right now is using the clear net domain name DuckDuckGo dot com, but you

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can also access it using an onion service link, which I have right here.

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Now we know this is a hidden service because as you can see, the link ends with a dot onion.

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So any website that ends with a dot onion.

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It means this is an onion or a tor hidden service that can only be accessed from within the Tor network,

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and therefore it's considered as a Darknet website.

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So even if you go and copy this link and paste it in a normal web browser such as Firefox or Chrome,

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the website will not load because that browser is not connected to the Tor network.

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Therefore, you can only access these websites from the Tor browser or from Thales.

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Because as we know, Thales automatically routes all traffic through the Tor network.

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Don't worry.

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I'll include this in the resources of this lecture.

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So if I just paste this in here and my URL bar.

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This will take slightly longer because we're accessing it through the Tor network.

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But as you can see, we got to the same page.

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Using the page is going to be the same and we're going to be getting the same functionality from the

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page.

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The only difference is when you access a website using its clear net domain name.

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We're going to first of all go through the Tor network because we're using the Tor browser and then

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we're going to exit the network.

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And like I said, the traffic sent in here will not benefit from the privacy that Tor offers, so it

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won't be encrypted unless HTTPS is used.

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And then this traffic will go to the target website.

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But when you access the Onion Service link, which is what I accessed right now, right here, we will

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never leave the Tor network, so we'll be going through the Tor network again.

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But we will never leave the Tor network.

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The last node will contain the onion service that we requested, and therefore we will fully benefit

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from the privacy that Tor offers.

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Now, once you are in this search engine, as you can see, using it is very, very simple and intuitive.

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All you have to do is just type the website that you're looking for or the topic that you're looking

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Like I said, we can use DuckDuckGo to search for both clear net and onion hidden services.

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So for example, if I wanted to go to a clear net website, I can look for that security.

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And as you can see, we got accurate results for that security.

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The first link will actually take you to my website.

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And if we wanted to search for an onion service, for example, I want to search for another search

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engine.

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And this one is called not evil.

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So I'm going to type not evil search engine.

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And as you can see, the first result is actually the correct onion link to this onion hidden service.

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I already have it in here as well, so we can just copy it and paste it here or you can copy it from

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Just make sure you remove the photo from the end.

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I like copy pasting links instead of clicking them because sometimes when you click on a link, you

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don't really know where this is going to go because the text that you see here is not always what the

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Therefore, even if you see a link like this, it's best to paste to copy it, open a new tab, or open

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it in the same tab as you wish, but make sure you copy and then paste the link.

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That way you're sure that you're going to the link that you're seeing on screen.

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Now, as you can see, not evil has loaded for us.

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Now this is another search engine.

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It only offers an onion service address.

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Also, it can only search the Tor hidden network, so it can only search for onion services.

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Now, as you can see, there are no ads on the page.

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There is no tracking with this search engine.

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So let's say we want to search for a vulnerability.

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As you can see, again, very simple.

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You get all the websites that might contain interesting stuff for you.

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You can click on them or copy or copy, paste the link if you want it to, and then you'll get to the

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website that you're looking for.

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Now, I should also mention that this search engine used to be called Tor search.

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And like I said, to be honest, this has to be my favorite search engine.

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Now, the next one that I want to show you is called Torch, which is short for torch search engine.

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Now, you can just look for it here so we can type.

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So these are websites that will actually contain links, link to the search engine or I actually have

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the link right here.

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And again, very similar to the other search engines that I showed you.

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All you have to do is type the thing that you're looking for.

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And here again, let's look for vulnerability.

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And you'll get your results right here.

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Now, what I don't like about the search engine, as you saw in the home page, there are a number of

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ads for other hidden services and a lot of them are scam.

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They also slow down the browser and slow down the whole computer if you don't have a lot of resources.

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That's why it's not my favorite, but it's a very, very popular search engine.

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That's why I'm covering it here.

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The next search engine that I want to show you.

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And the last one is called Amaya.

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So, again, we're going to copy its link.

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Now again, similar to the others.

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This will only search for onion services.

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Very simple and easy to use.

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As an example, I'm going to look for vulnerability.

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And I misspelled it.

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As you can see, it's nice.

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It's correcting it for me.

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And again, we're getting the results that's relevant to what I search for.

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Now, as you can see, this one does not have a similar to Torch, but the quality of the results that

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you get here are not as good as not evil.

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So like I said, not evil has to be my favorite in the three that I showed you so far.

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Now keep in mind the links that we're using, the Tor or the Onion links that we're using right here

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could change from time to time.

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So these links that I'm using right now might fail at the time that you're watching this video.

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That's why it's always a good idea when if the link doesn't work to search for the website name.

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For example, if you're trying to go to not evil, go on DuckDuckGo or one of the other search engines

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and look for not evil search engine similar to the others.

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If you're looking for torch and it's down, then look for it on DuckDuckGo or not evil and then you

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can go from there.

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Not only that, but even searching on DuckDuckGo, you'll actually see a lot of clear net websites.

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So normal websites that we use every day listing links for other deep net or onion services.

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So if you search for torch search engine, for example, on DuckDuckGo, you'll get a lot of results

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of normal websites giving you valid links to online services.

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Now that's the easiest way of discovering onion hidden services using search engines.

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And in the next lecture, I'm going to show you more methods or more ways of discovering hidden services.