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What Is Darknet | How To Access Darknet and It’s Uses

Darknet

If the word “Darknet” has dragged you in here, then one thing is pretty sure that either this will be your last search for the topic or you are gonna jump into the exciting world of Dark Web and Darknet immediately.

Let’s start by defining some basic concepts in order to understand Darknet thoroughly.

Internet: It is basically a large network spread across the globe to connect entire devices on it to each other.

Web: It includes the services that are being provided over the internet.

Search Engine Indexing: It is a process in which the search engine collects and stores the data depending upon the keywords searched and depending on it further provides the results for the queries that are searched over the internet.

Surface Web: All the websites that can be indexed by the Search engines are called surface webs. These are consist of only 4-6 % of the entire web.

Deep web: It refers to an entire portion of the internet that can’t be searched through search engines. It includes all the websites other than the surface web. It is very large as compared to that of the surface web.

These websites include any of the data that has to be kept far away from the reach of the general audience. It is not necessary that all the evil contents are there on the deep web, for maintaining the confidentiality of the data; most of the websites are present only in the deep web.

Darknet: It is part of the Deep web that basically includes all the confidential or hidden websites which are encrypted over the network so as to maintain the anonymity of the user who is accessing that particular website.

When using darknet, it is nearly impossible for someone to track down who is using it or accessing any website. It is generally used by 2 types of people.

The first one is “The Privacy Conscious”. As the interference of Government in monitoring and collecting confidential information from the users over the internet is increasing ferociously, the people who want to tackle it prefers using the darknet.

The second one is, “The Criminal Minded.” As the base of the darknet is the anonymity of the user and the transactions done on it, Criminal minds are the most benefited by using it.  Child pornography, Illegal market of banned products, illicit websites hosting and many more bad things comes under this category.

Accessing the Darknet

Darknet cannot be accessed with the regular web browser you are using. You need specific software that is specifically designed to access the Darknet, these includes:

  • TOR (The Onion Router)
  • FAI (Free Anonymous Internet)
  • Freenet
  • I2P (Invisible Internet Project)
  • Zero net

TOR

It is a network that enables the user to surf the internet privately. It is almost impossible for any person who is trying to spy on your activity if you are using the TOR browser.

This is achieved as while using TOR, your IP address is spoofed so that it appears as it is present in some other geographical location.

It also enables the users to host “Hidden or Confidential Websites” on it anonymously. Further, only the user who is using the TOR browser can only access these websites.

We will demonstrate how to access the darknet using the TOR browser.

  1. Initially download the TOR browser from the following URL: https://www.torproject.org/
  2. Once you have downloaded it install it in your system. It is almost similar to installing any other software in your system.
  3. Next, open the browser. While first time opEning the browser, it takes quite a booting time depending on the performance of your PC.
  4. When it is finally booted, you can see your IP address which is basically an anonymous one. You can change this IP address by clicking on “New Identity” in the top right section of settings.
  5. Next, we search for the Hidden Wiki in the search bar which has links to many websites around the darknet.

NOTE: Tor Browser with DuckDuckGo search Engine showing New Identity section to change the IP Address

Hidden Wiki Website

Please do not click on any of the links without prior knowledge of the consequences of any unethical activity if you get associated with it by visiting the link.

Darknet Uses

  • Secret file-sharing that too in an encrypted network.
  • Browsing the contents which are in the specific country.
  • Protecting the privacy rights of individuals from the government.
  • Buying and selling of Illegal goods.
  • Protecting the confidentiality of data by Governmental Organizations.
  • Black marketing.
  • Stealing and storing of copyright data.

Darknet movie

If you are into visual audio things then here are a few lists of movies that you should watch which are based on the Darknet.

  • Unfriended (2014)
  • Deep Web (2015)
  • Down the Deep, Dark Web (2016)
  • Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

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