How To Access the DARK WEB in 2024 (3 Levels)

Before you try to

access

the

dark

web, let me show you how to do it safely. I'll show you three ways, starting with the most unsafe, the one you're about to try. They're going to hack you and then I'll finish it with the safest way, like if you're invisible, that I can't touch you. You're Edward Snowden, Snowden security level, a cool name for a company. Actually go down before you get to number one, and I'll let you loose. You should know that the

dark

web is not all bad. It was actually created with good intentions to give people anonymity and a platform for free expression, and it has many legitimate uses.

So think about journalists trying to communicate with people who want to stay hidden, like Edward Snowden, or people who try to keep their activities hidden from their government, like Edward Snowden. Or if you want to play chess without anyone watching, yes, you can play chess on the dark web like Edward Snowden. I think he plays chess, right? But seriously, the dark web is a good place with legitimate websites like the New York Times, B B C C I A, Facebook, it's all there ready to be

access

ed safely and it's amazing. But what makes it amazing also makes it terrifying because it is the perfect breeding ground for all kinds of illegal activities.

I mean, think about it. If you are a criminal, you will have perfect anonymity without supervision. It's like the purge all the time, except on the Internet. And by the way, did you know that your stuff is for sale here? The dark web, your emails, your passwords, your logins, they're there. The criminals are believing it as we speak. How do I know you can use what I use to find out and keep me safe? Dashlane, the sponsor of this video built into Dashlane's amazing password management, is dark web monitoring. They monitor the dark web and tell me if my stuff has been hacked.

And by using Dashlane, I can generate a never-before-seen super-secure password that is not used by any other service and is stored securely within Dashlane. In fact, I use Dashlane for all my passwords, both personal and for my YouTube business. Now I'm a target and so are my employees. I then force them to use Dashlane and through the admin console I can see if their passwords are in good standing. Every great trick usually happens with people who just make a mistake, just be human and make a little boo here and there. I don't know why I said boo boo, but with Dashlane, I have my eyes on everything.

So if you want to make sure your stuff isn't on the dark web and your passwords are safe, check out Dashlane. I have a link below. If you use my Code Network, Chuck 50, you'll get 50% off. And thanks again to Dashlane for sponsoring this video and supporting my channel. Well, number one on our list and the most insecure way to access the dark web. Seriously, don't do this, but I know some of you still will. I know all you need to do is download something called Tor browser. Just as you can download Chrome or Firefox to access the regular Internet known as the clearnet, you will download the Tor browser to access the dark web.

Now, the Tor browser, which stands for Onion Router, is what you will use to access the Onion network. I know you didn't think the dark web would involve so many onions. In fact, they are like onions that are on top of the Internet and the onions are what obscure it. It's not that onions are bad, they just have layers. Now, we won't go too deep. We're not growing onions here, but we know that part of what makes it secure and why we need a special browser is that, like the layers of an onion, data sent on the dark web is sent to three onion routers.

I told you there are a lot of onions before they reach their destination, and each one applies a layer of encryption or security. This helps keep your data anonymous and secure, and has a lot more magic if you want to become an onion farmer. I have a video here where I go a lot deeper and show you how to put your own website on the dark web. You can do that. So if you want to imagine the dark web being a little less scary, imagine a bunch of onions connected together, pretty much what it is. Now, look at how easy it is to enter the dark web.

I'll open my web browser and go to tor project.org and then click on download tor browser and download from my operating system. You'll probably notice that iOS is missing. I'll show you how to do it here in a moment. I'll run the installer here for Windows and install it on my desktop. You can choose any location you want and click finish. And now to connect to the dark web, all we have to do is press a button. Are you ready? About to get Real Connect? And here we go. You are creating a connection, connecting with three onions.

And we are on the dark web. Creepy, huh? Not really, right? They were here. What do we do now? Go to Google. Can we just do that? And in case you were wondering, yes, you can access regular websites on clearnet with the Tor browser. You can even see our circuit right here. Click on that little circuit. Shows you our three onions. We are passing, we have a German, Austrian and Dutch onion. And just to clarify our anonymity, keep an eye out for that Dutch IP address. What is my IP address? Actually, it's IPV six fun. If we look there, that matches.

But still, where is the dark web? I thought we were here. That is the point. The dark web is dark. You get there and you're like, this here, Lexi, let me do that for you. You are like that. That's the dark web. It's a bunch of websites interconnected by these onions and nothing can really find them. Not even Google. And Google sees everything, including you right now, wearing a black hoodie and eating Funions with Mountain Dew. He sees you. But even Google spiders cannot crawl these websites. They hate onions. And like I said, the dark web is full of onions.

Even every website you visit is an onion, it even ends in an onion. Let's try a place. We'll go to the official dark web version of the New York Times. Do not get excited. It's the same website. It's only on the dark web. I'll paste it here in my browser. Bam, well, notice that it ends and puts an onion dot instead of.com or.net or technology or coffee network. chuck.coffee. That's on clearnet. And you clearly need some coffee. And if I press Enter, I am now navigating to a dark website. Turns out it's the New York Times.

Now notice the website is like I can't just remember that. That's crazy, right? It is a randomly generated string and will be every website on the dark web. And if you're as big as the New York Times, you might get your name preprinted this way through some fancy measures, but it's always going to be something like this that ends in onion. This is how you know you are on a dark web website. But what I want to clarify here is that you would never know how to get to this website unless the New York Times gave you its onion address.

There is no way to search or index it, which is how our current Internet works. This is how we can discover things through search engines. This doesn't happen. It's dark, there are no flashlights, but you might see some candles along the way. There are some really interesting ones called Hidden Wiki. This is a dark website that has a list of other dark websites. There is also a dark web search engine called amia. Amia, I'm not sure how to say it. And they will search for known dark web websites, but that's it. They can't index, they can't crawl.

Now it's at this point that you might want to try looking for interesting things because you're curious. No, at this time this is not certain. We download the TOR browser and start it with the default settings. It's not cool. So let's move on to level two. The second safest way to access the dark web, and it is definitely safer, but not the safest. I probably still wouldn't do this if I was looking for stuff, you know what I mean? This will involve the same as level one, but adding an extra layer of protection, somewhat like an onion.

We will still have our same route navigator, we will need it. But before we connect to the Tor network, we will first connect to V P N and we will also change some settings in our tour browser which are highly recommended because you don't want to be sitting there hanging out on the dark web and all that. Suddenly you get a phone call or a knock on the door and you say: What did I do? True story from someone Coffee break. So back here in my TOR browser, I'm going to disconnect from the TOR network and just close my TOR browser.

Now I will configure VPN very quickly. I am using nord. You can use whatever you want as long as you trust it. And then I will connect to VPN and then start my TOR browser. Now, why do this? Why use V P N before connecting to the TOR network? Aren't we already protected? Aren't we already anonymous? Yes, to a certain extent. You see, here's what we're worried about. When you try to connect to the TOR network, do you know who can see it? You are connecting to the TOR network, your I S P, your Internet provider.

They see that. They recognize that network. In fact, it is easily detectable. I actually have Tor blocked on my business network here. I don't know what my employees are doing and I had to unblock it for this video. Now also, the first onion router that you connect to, I'm going to draw an onion, it looks like an apple. Let me give you some layers here. It looks like someone bit an apple. Anyway, the first onion router you connect to can see your IP address and knows you. Now, later on, you are protected and anonymous. But it's those small weak areas that may not seem like a big deal.

Those are the ways people are often discovered and tracked on the dark web. You've heard of criminals getting arrested for dark web market stuff. This is how it happens. It's these little leaks. That's how the FBI and CIA can track these things. But if we use our VPN, we are encrypted here. Our IP address is hidden here first before connecting to the Torah network, which adds that extra layer of security, and also by default our connection is not that secure. Let's change some settings real quick. Part of our level two security, level three, it will blow your mind, believe me.

But this one, this one is pretty good. So we'll click on set up connection, and here we have privacy and security. Let's go ahead and click on that. From here, we'll navigate down until we see security and security level. We are currently on standard, which means all browser and website features are enabled. You don't want that on the dark web. There are a lot of things hackers can do using all those features and you don't want those things enabled. So let's go to the safest option. Let's change our choice here and here. Things like JavaScript are disabled by default on all websites.

And really with that change, that's pretty much all you have to worry about. For most things. With level two, you are safe but not completely safe. But let's go ahead and connect to the dark web. We have our TOR connection. We will see if the ccia A website works on the dark web website and notice that there is cia.gov at the beginning. It's something great. Here we are. Ccia A on the dark web. There's nothing cooler than that. You know you want to try it. That's level two. Now, level three, level three, is intense, but it's safe and you'll have the most fun with this one, trust me.

And it's really one of the only ways I can recommend to you to access the dark web. Everything else is at your own risk. Now this is what we are doing. We're going to create a computer on this USB drive, and that's what you're going to need. A USB drive like this. The computer we created on this USB drive has goldfish memory. Every time you use it, it forgets that you can't track it. This laptop or computer operating system is called Tails Linux, the Amnesic Incognito live system. And how do you know what is good? Well, Edwards Snowden trusts him and he's still chilling in Russia, so that's pretty cool.

He also uses Tour Network by default. So when you use the super secret laptop, all your traffic goes through the onions. It's all onion all the time. I hope you like onion. Now I know it may seem complicated. How can I configure that? It's actually not that bad. Again, all you'll need is a USB drive with at least eight gigs of space, eight gigabytes, which most have that. I bought this on Amazon, like a 10 pack, although I don't know how cheap it was. And that's how it works. Let me show you the demo time. All you're going to do is turn off your computer, plug in this USB device, start your computer, and through the boot options say, I want to boot from this guy.

Suddenly you're using Tails Linux. It's amazing. Let's set it up right now. The first thing we will do is take our USB device and connect it to our computer. And by the way, you can do this with almost any computer as long as it's not too old. But think about that. You want to use your friend's computer for something quick. Maybeyou're in the Best Buy library. I don't know, maybe don't do that. But you can boot this device and leave no trace of where you've been, what you did, or anything powerful. Let's set it up. Then we will open our web browser and access tails.net.

From here, we'll click install tails. And while there are several ways to run this, the only recommended one is using an S B device. Go ahead and click on that and we'll download the Tails U s B image. Actually, while it's downloading, we need a way to write that image on our USB device. The best software that I know the most is Bena Etcher. Simply head to etcher.bena.io. Click Download Etcher. It's free software and I usually download the portable version because I try to avoid installing things. That's how I am. And once it's downloaded, we'll go ahead and launch it.

Now. A fun fact is that Bena Etcher is what we used to create images from over a hundred SD cards for a Mr Beast video that will be available soon. With bena Open, we will click on flash from file and choose the tails image that we just downloaded open. Then we'll select our target, which sounds a little aggressive, but all we do is select our USB device. I'll click on that and then click on flash. Sorry, too much coffee. And let that fool write. Now this is all we really have to do. Once this is done, we are done.

Then we can use it. The meat is complete. Now let's take our USB stick. And now let's use it to access the dark web in the safest way. I have my laptop here and the first thing I'm going to do is turn off the sucker. I'm currently on Windows, but not for long. The computer is off and now I can safely plug in my USB drive and with my USB drive plugged in, I will start my computer. This is where it gets a little tricky, but when I get to the boot menu here on my laptop, I think it's going to be F 12.

When I see the BIOS menu come up, yeah, F 12 for me. But as soon as your computer starts to boot, you'll want to press F 12, F 10, delete, whatever to access your BIOS, boot options. And here I'm going to scroll down to my U SS B drive and hit Enter right now. Without hands. Here we go. Booting into Linux tails. Now we are almost ready to start with the crosses, but we have a few options. The main one you might want to consider is creating persistent storage. Which means you may want to keep some things, like your documents and downloads, but you may not want to do so given the fact that you are trying to remain anonymous, leave no trace, the safest ways to leave it out. .

And that is the default behavior. That's great. Tails has pretty good default safety behavior. So we'll go ahead and start telling stories. So here we have stories about Linux running on an A U S B device and it is a full-fledged operating system. Now the first thing we have to worry about is, hey, this guy here, we're not connected to any kind of wifi or internet. Let's take care of that. I will select my network. Now, I will say that some people are having trouble getting Tails to work with their wifi controllers. They are wireless car drivers.

My laptop worked right out of the box. I did not do anything. I'll connect with pumpkin juice. But if you have any problems, you can buy a small wireless dongle or a dongle that will connect you. And if the computer has an Ethernet connection, connected with the cable, it will probably be fine. Now here I have my TOR connection. I will connect automatically. I definitely want that TOR bridge. I'm not going to cover that here, but if you're having trouble connecting to Tor, you may be blocked. That's one way to avoid it. I have to change my screen settings.

I can't see all my things, but notice that it's very agile, it's very fast. And now I can select Connect Tor and I will start my Tor browser. Now, level three, this is the best way to access the dark web, a laptop that forgets you used it. If you want to add another layer of security, which I recommend, you can connect to V P N before connecting through the traversal here, the V P N traversal ends completely, that's powerful. And then when you're done, you just turn this thing off, turn it off, and unplug your USB device.

You were never here. Now there is one more way to access the dark web that I think is probably one of the safest options, maybe even safer than queuing. That's debatable. So here it is, level three and three quarters maybe. This is what I use to browse the dark web. It's the Network Chuck Cloud browser. Then I'll head over to browser.network chuck.com. And if you've never heard of this, I'll quickly show you what it does. I'll log in and here I have the option to choose the browser I want to launch. Now, what is a cloud browser?

What this is, I'll just give you a quick overview. You have a complete video about it if you want to know more. But all I do is when I click on one of these things, let's say we want to click on the Tor browser, which we will do, it will start another computer somewhere else in the world and then it will start a browser inside of that. In our case it will be the Tor browser with a single click. I can even tell you where I want to be. Europe, India, South America, whatever it does automatically, it will be up to us to do it quickly.

I log in and just like that, I'm on the Onion Network. I'm on the dark web on another computer somewhere else in the world. I think that's pretty safe. And also, you can use this on your phone. But anyway, those are the three or three and three fourth ways to access the dark web. I can really only recommend level three and above. So three quarters when you try to access the dark web. And be careful even when you think you're super safe. Level three snowed in level, things can still happen. Always keep in mind that you are browsing a dark part of the Internet without supervision.

That's why we're being so careful. So do everything with extra precautions. When you download something, you may disconnect from the Internet before trying to open it. That thing could explode if it's connected to the Internet. And when I say exploit, I mean it could connect to some other system or service and hack you or something that could happen. Now, these risks are less when you use Tales Linux on a portable USB or when you use the Chuck Cloud web browser. But don't become one of those horror stories people talk about when they mention the dark web.

Stay safe.