The Benefits Of Dark Web Sites
There’s a lot of illegal stuff up for grabs on the dark web. Stolen information (like credit card numbers and log-in credentials), drugs, guns for sale, and even people for hire can be found here. These websites aren’t indexed by search engines and can only be accessed via a special browser called Tor. This software encrypts messages and routing them through multiple nodes, making it difficult for anyone to track who’s sending what.
Hidden Answers
The site Hidden Answers is like the dark web version of Reddit and Quora, which allows users to ask questions and receive answers. Some of the questions are about hacking, literature, and even marriage advice. Others are more personal, such as would you want your brain cryo-frozen after death. You can also find a range of online services on the Dark Web Sites, including email providers and communication tools. Some of them, such as Sci-Hub, are open repositories of scientific papers. Other sites, such as SecureDrop, are used by whistleblowers to share information with journalists without being traced.
Finally, Riseup is an activist network that supports human liberation and the ethical treatment of animals. Its website includes organizational tools, mailing lists, and more. It requires an invitation code to create a Riseup account.
ProPublica
ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom that conducts investigative journalism in the public interest. Its stories reveal abuses of power and betrayals of trust by government, business, and other institutions. They shine a spotlight on wrongdoing and can often spur reform. ProPublica takes the integrity of its work seriously. Editorial employees must avoid activities that might cast doubt on their ability to report fairly and with neutrality on subjects they cover. They also may not make personal investments in companies related to their coverage areas unless approved in advance by the editor in chief or president of ProPublica.
The group’s recent work has helped to raise awareness of the dangers of fracking, expose fraud in the assisted living industry, and uncover ethical questions surrounding forensic science. It has partnered with many national and local news outlets.
BBC Tor Mirror
The BBC has made its news website available on the Tor (The Onion Router) network in a bid to thwart censorship and surveillance attempts. The network is infamous for obscuring a user’s identity and data, allowing them to access sites that would otherwise be blocked. Countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran have tried to block access to the BBC’s news sites and programmes.
Unlike the surface web, Tor websites don’t use regular domains but instead rely on volunteer-run “exit nodes” to link users with the internet. Messages sent across the network are encrypted at each stop, giving the site it appears they came from a random computer in the network rather than the user. It’s this process that gives sites hosted on the Tor network their.onion suffix.
Facebook Onion Portal
Although the dark web has a reputation as a dangerous place where drugs are sold and hitmen hired, it can be a safe way to browse the Internet if privacy is a concern. For example, Facebook and The New York Times are among a few websites that host onion versions of their sites that can be accessed using Tor, which hides your browsing history and routes your traffic through several servers.
Facebook’s.onion site is particularly useful for people in countries that block access to the social media service, which can help people stay in touch with friends despite government restrictions. It also offers greater protection against data collection by Facebook itself. Other onion sites include SecureDrop, which allows whistleblowers to send documents to journalists anonymously.
OnionLinks
The site describes the adventures of underground tunnel explorers, who often run into disturbing and compromising material. This is likely why they use Tor to encrypt their connections to their websites, and why the sites have a.onion domain instead of a common surface web address. The New York Times launched an onion version of its website in 2017. It serves the same news content as the normal newspaper, but users in censored countries can access it without being tracked by their government.
The wiki-style OnionLinks website is a useful resource that lists all the available.onion services. Other notable onion services include SecureDrop, an anonymous whistleblower platform, and BlackCloud, a file-sharing service that does not keep logs of user activity. Other important onion services include DarkNetLive and Torch.
Wrapping It Up
While you might think of the underground Internet as a place filled with illegal services and gore websites, there are many positive aspects of the dark web. For example, Pulitzer Prize winning news outlet ProPublica has a dark version that lets you bypass censorship.
