Before you try to access the dark web, let me show you how to do it safely
and securely. I'll show you three ways, starting with the most insecure
way, the way you're about to try. You're going to get hacked and then
I'll end with the most secure way, like you're invisible, that can't
touch you. You're Edward Snowden, Snowden level security, kind
of a cool name for a company. Actually dips before we go to
number one, and I'll let you loose. You got to know the
dark web isn't all bad. It was actually created with good
intentions to give people anonymity and a platform for free expression, and
it has a ton of legitimate uses. So think journalists try to communicate
with people who want to stay hidden like Edward Snowden or people trying to
keep their activities hidden from their government like Edward Snowden. Or if you want to play chess
without anybody 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 kind of 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
accessed securely and it's awesome. But what makes it awesome also makes
it kind of terrifying because it's the perfect breeding ground for all
types of illegal activity. I mean, think about it. If you're a criminal,
it's perfect anonymity with no oversight. It's like the purge all the time,
except in the internet. And by the way, did you know that your stuff is for
sale in this place? The dark web, your emails, your passwords,
your logins, it's there. Criminals are buying it as we speak. How do I know that you can use what I
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sponsoring this video and supporting my channel. Okay, 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 are still going to do it. I know all you'll need to do is download
something called the Tor browser. Just like you might download Chrome or
Firefox to access the regular internet known as the clearnet, you'll download
the Tor browser to access the dark web. Now, the Tor browser, which
stands for the Onion Router, is what you'll use to
access the Onion network. I know you didn't think the dark web
would involve so many onions. In fact, it's kind of all onions sitting on top
of the internet and the onions are what make it dark. Not that onions are
bad, they just have layers. Now, we won't go too deep. We're
not onion farming here, but just 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's a ton of onions
before they reach their destination, each applying a layer of
encryption or security. This helps keep your
data anonymous and safe, and there is a lot more magic to it if
you do want to become an onion farmer. I've got a video here where I go a lot
deeper and I show you how to actually put your own website on the
dark web. You can do that. So if you want to imagine the
dark web is a little less scary, just imagine a bunch of onions connected
together, kind of what it is. Now, watch how easy it is
to get on the dark web. I'm going to open my web browser and go
out to the tor project.org and then I'll click on download tor browser and
download from my operating system. You probably notice iOS missing. I'll
show you how to do that here in a bit. I'll run the installer here for
Windows, installing it on my desktop. You can choose anywhere
you want and click finish. And now to connect to the dark web,
all we have to do is click one button. You ready? About to get Real
connect? And here we go. It's creating a connection,
connecting to three onions. And we're on the dark web. Spooky, huh?
Kind of not really, right? We're here. What do we do now? Go to
Google. Can we just do that? And in case you're wondering, yes, you can access regular websites on
the clearnet with the Tor browser. You can even see our circuit right
here. Click on that little circuit. It shows you our three
onions. We're going through, got a German Austrian and Dutch onion.
And just to hit home our anonymity, keep an eye on that Dutch IP
address. What's my IP address? It's actually IPV six Fun. If we look
there, that matches it up. But still, where's the dark web? I thought we
were here. That's kind of the point. The dark web is dark. You get there
and you're like, this here, Lexi, let me do that for you. You're
like this. 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, eating Funions
with Mountain Dew. It sees you. But even the Google spiders can't
crawl these websites. They hate onions. And like I said, the dark
web is filled with onions. Even every website you visit is
an onion, even ends with onion. Let's try one site. We'll go to the official dark web
version of the New York Times. Don't get excited. It's the same
website. It's just on the dark web. I'll paste that here on my
browser. Bam, just like this, notice it ends and dot onion
instead of.com or.net or tech or coffee network. chuck.coffee.
That's on the clearnet. And clearly you need some
coffee. And if I hit enter, I'm now navigating to a dark web website. It just happens to be the New York Times. Now notice the website's kind of
like you can't just remember that. That's crazy, right? It's a randomly generated string and
that will be every dark web website. And if you're a big deal
like the New York Times, you might get your name like this
preprinted through some fancy measures, but it's always going to be
something like this ending in onion. That's how you know you're
on a dark web website. But the point I want to hit home here
is that you would never ever be able to figure out how to get to this website
unless the New York Times gave you their onion address. There's no
way to search it or index it, which is how our current internet works. That's how we can discover things through
search engines. This doesn't happen. It's dark, no flashlights, but you
might see some candles along the way. There are some really cool
ones called the Hidden Wiki. This is a dark web website that
has a list of other dark websites. There's also a search engine on
the dark web called amia. Amia, I'm not sure how to say it. And
they'll search 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 and go around and find some interesting stuff because you're curious.
No, right now this is not secure. We downloaded the TOR browser,
launched it with default settings. It's not great. So let's
move on to level two. The second most secure way
to access the dark web, and this is definitely more
secure but not the most secure. I probably still wouldn't do this
if I were searching for stuff, you know what I mean? This will
involve the same thing as level one, but adding an extra layer of
protection, kind of like an onion. We'll still have our same
tour browser, we'll need that. But before we connect to the Tor network, we'll first connect to V P N and we'll
also change some settings in our tour browser that are highly recommended
because you don't want to be sitting there hanging out in the dark web and all of
a sudden you get a phone call or a knock on the door and you're
like, what did I do? True story from someone Coffee break. So back here at my TOR browser, I'm going to disconnect from
the TOR network and I'll
just close my TOR browser. Now, I'll set up V P N
real quick. I'm using nord. You can use whatever you
want as long as you trust it. And then I'll connect to V P N and then
launch my TOR browser. Now, why do this? Why use V P N before we connect to the
TOR network? Aren't we already protected? Aren't we already
anonymous? Yes, to a point. You see right here is
what we're worried about. When you try to connect to the TOR
network, you know who can see that? You're connecting to the TOR network,
your I S P, your internet provider. They see that. They recognize that
network. In fact, it's 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, that first onion router you
connect to, I'm going to draw an onion, looks like an apple. Lemme
give you some layers here. It looks like someone
bit an apple. Anyways, that first onion router you connect
to, they can see your IP address, they know you. Now further down the
line, you're protected, you're anonymous. But it's those little weak areas
that may not seem like a big deal. Those are the ways that people usually
get found out and tracked on the dark web. You've heard of criminals getting
arrested for dark web marketplace stuff. That's how it happens.
It's these little leaks. It's how the F B I and the C
I A can track these things. But if we use our V P
N, we're encrypted here. Our IP address is hidden here first
before we connect to the Torah network, adding that extra layer of
security and also by default, our connection isn't that safe. Let's
change some settings real quick. Part of our level two security level three
is going to blow your mind, trust me. But this one, this is pretty good. So
we'll click on configure connection, and over here we have
privacy and security. Let's
go ahead and click on that. From here, we'll browse down until
we see security and security level. Right now we're on standard, which means all browser and
website features are enabled. You don't want that in the dark web. There's a lot of things that hackers
can do using all those features and you don't want those things enabled. So
we're going to go to the safest option. We're going to change
our choice here and here. Things like JavaScript are disabled
by default on all websites. And really with that one change, that's
pretty much all you have to worry about. For most things. With level two,
you're safe but not completely safe. But let's go ahead and connect to the
dark web. We have our TOR connection. We'll see if the ccia A website's
working the dark web website and notice there's a cia.gov at the beginning.
It's kind of cool. Here we are. Ccia A on the dark web. You
don't get cooler than that. You know you want to try it. That's
level two. Now, level three, level three, it's intense, but it is secure and you're going to have
the most fun with this one, trust me. And really it's one of the only ways I
can recommend you use to access the dark web. Anything else at your own risk.
Now here's what we're doing this. We're going to create a
computer on this U S B drive, and that's what you're going to
need. A U S B drive like this. The computer we create on this
U S B drive has goldfish memory. Every time you use it, it
forgets that you did untraceable. This portable operating system or
a computer is called Tails Linux, the Amnesic Incognito live system.
And how do you know what's good? Well, it's trusted by Edwards Snowden
and he's still chilling in Russia, so it's pretty good. It also
uses the Tour Network by default. So when you use the super
secret portable computer, all your traffic is going across the
onions. It's all onions all the time. I hope you like onions. Now I
know it might sound complicated. How do I get that set up? It's
actually not that bad. Again, all you'll need is A U S B drive
with at least eight gigs of space, eight gigabytes, which most
have that. I got this on Amazon, like a pack of like 10 for I don't
know how much it was cheap though. And here's how it works. Lemme
show you demonstration time. All you'll do is you'll shut down your
computer, plug this U S B stick in, boot up your computer and
through your boot options say, I want to boot from this guy. Suddenly
you're using Tails Linux. It's amazing. Let's get it set up right now. The first thing we'll do is grab our U
S B stick and plug it into 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. Maybe you're at the library Best Buy.
I don't know, maybe don't do that. But you can boot into this stick and
not leave a trace of where you've been, what you did or anything
powerful. Let's get it set up. We'll then open our web browser
and go out to tails.net. From here, we'll click on install tails. And while
there are a number of ways to run this, the only way recommended
is via a S B stick. Go ahead and click on that and we'll
download the tails U s B image. Actually, while that's downloading, we need a way
to write that image to our U S B stick. The best software I know
about is Bena Etcher. Just head out to etcher.bena.io.
Click on Download Etcher. It's a free software and I
usually download the portable
version because I try to avoid installing things. That's
just me. And once downloaded, we'll go ahead and launch
that. Now. Fun fact, the Bena Etcher is what we use to image
over a hundred SD cards for a Mr Beast video that's coming soon. With bena Open, we'll click on flash from file and
choose the tails image that we just downloaded open. Then we'll select our
target, which sounds kind of aggressive, but all we're doing is
selecting our U S B stick. I'll click on that and
then click on flash. Sorry, a little too much coffee.
And let it write that sucker. Now this is all we have to do really.
Once this is finished, we're done. Then we can just use it. The flesh is
complete. Now let's grab our U S B stick. And now let's use it to access the
dark web in the most secure way. Got my laptop here and the first
thing I'll do is shut the sucker down. I'm currently in Windows,
but not for long. Computer is shut down and now I can safely
plug in my U S B drive and with my U S B drive plugged in, I'll
now boot up my computer. Here's where it gets kind of tricky, but when get to your boot menu here on
my laptop, I think it's going to be F 12. When I see the BIOS menu
come up, yep, F 12 for me. But as soon as your computer starts
to boot, you want to press F 12, F 10, delete, whatever it might be to
get to your bios, boot options. And here I'm going to scroll down until
I get to my U SS B drive right there and hit enter right now. No hands. Here we go. Booting into tails Linux. Now here
we're almost ready to start tails, but we have some options. The main one you might want to consider
is creating persistent storage. Meaning that some things like
your documents and downloads, you may want to keep on there, but you may not want to do that given
the fact that you're trying to remain anonymous, leaving no trace, the
most secure ways to leave it off. And that's the default
behavior. That's kind of cool. Tails has pretty good
default security behavior. So we'll go ahead and start tales. So here we have tales at Linux running
on A U S B stick and it's a full-blown oss. Now the first thing we have to
worry about is, hey, this guy right here, we are not connected to any kind of wifi
or internet. Let's take care of that. I'll select my network. Now, I'll say that some people do have issues
getting tails to work with their wifi drivers. They're wireless car drivers.
My laptop worked out of the box. I didn't do anything. I'll connect to
pumpkin juice. But if you have any issues, you can actually buy a wireless little
dongle or connection that'll connect you. And if the computer has an ethernet
connection, hardwire with the cable, it'll probably be fine. Now
here I've got my TOR connection. I'll connect automatically.
Definitely want that TOR bridge. I'm not going to cover that here, but
if you have issues connecting to tor, maybe you're being blocked.
That's a way to bypass it. I got to change my display
settings. I can't see all my stuff, but notice it's really
snappy, it's really quick. And now I can select Connect Tor
and I'll start my Tor browser. Now, level three, this is the best
way to access the dark web, a portable computer that
forgets you used it. If you want to add on another layer
of security, which I do recommend, you could connect to V P N
before you connect via tour here, the V P N tour tails altogether, that's
powerful. And then when you're done, you just shut this thing down,
power off, unplug your U S B stick. You were never here. Now there is one more way you can access
the dark web that I think is probably one of the more secure options,
maybe even more secure than tails. 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. So I'll head to browser.network chuck.com.
And if you've never heard of this, I'll show you real quick what it does. I'll get logged in and here have the
option of choosing a browser I want to launch. Now, what's a cloud
browser? What this is, I'll just give you a quick overview. You have a whole video about
it if you want to learn more. But all I'm doing is when I
click one of these things, let's say we want to click the
Tor browser, which we will, it's going to launch another computer
somewhere else in the world and then launch a browser inside
of that. In our case, it'll be the Tor browser with one click.
I can even tell it where I want to be. Europe, India, south America,
whatever I'll do auto, it'll be in us to make it fast.
Launch my session and just like that, I'm on the Onion Network. I'm in the dark web on another
computer somewhere else in the world. I think that's pretty secure. And
bonus, you can use this on your phone. But anyways, that's the three or three and three
quarters ways that you can access the dark web. I can really only
recommend level three and above. So three and three quarters when
you're trying to access the dark web. And just be careful even when
you think you're super secure. Level three snowed in level,
things can still happen. Just always be aware that you are
navigating a dark part of the internet with no oversight. That's
why we're being so careful. So do everything with extra precautions.
When you download something, maybe disconnect from the internet
before you try to open it. That thing might explode if
it's connected to the internet. And when I say explode, I mean it might connect with some
other system or service and hack you or something that can happen. Now, these risks are lower when you're using
Tales Linux on a portable U S B or you're using the network
Chuck Cloud browser. But don't become one of those scary
stories that people talk about when they mention the dark web. Stay safe.
