Okay.
So now that we had the look on the most popular search engines on the darknet or that we can use to
discover hidden services and this lecture, I want to show you more ways to discover hidden services
or online services.
And we'll do this using websites that link us to other websites or to other services.
Now, like I said, there are a number of clear net websites that will link you to hidden services.
All you have to do is just look for them in DuckDuckGo or even in Google.
A very popular website that list a number of links is the hidden wiki.
You can look for it on any search engine.
I have the link for it right here, so I'm just going to copy and paste it here.
Now the hidden wiki will contain a lot of broken links and a lot of scam, so you want to be very careful
when you click on the links here.
I'm showing it here to you for the sake of completion because you might find some useful links in here.
And if you're a security researcher, you really need to know what the hidden wiki is, even know about
the scammy websites in here because you might want to do research on them or you might want to investigate
them.
Using this is very simple.
You can see categories.
Each category contains websites that fall.
Under this category, you can copy and paste the links to access them.
It's as simple as that.
A better website with more valid links would be direct fail.
So the dark dot fail is a clear net domain that you can access on any browser.
Or if you're on the Tor browser, you can access the hidden service for this website.
So again, copy pasting it in here in my tor browser.
This allowed the website similar to the hidden wiki.
So it contains a number of links to popular hidden services and these links are BGP verified, so it's
less likely to be scam and it's all valid links.
So you can see the grayed out ones.
These are links that are offline.
So for example, if you try to access this link right here, it won't work.
Everything else it should work.
So this is different to what's in the hidden wiki.
You'll notice this.
If you test it yourself, you'll see a lot of the links that you click in.
The hidden wiki will not actually work.
Another place where you can get hidden services is the deep net or the deep web subreddit.
So this is actually a subreddit on the clear net reddit.
So again, you can access it using a normal browser or using the Tor browser.
Obviously it's better to access it using the Tor browser because you'll be more anonymous and in here
you'll see all sorts of topics about the deep web.
So you'll see people discussing anonymity, people discussing new services, new vulnerabilities, and
so on.
So if you're a Reddit user or even if you're not a Reddit user, but you want to use the deep net frequently,
then this is a really good subreddit to stay updated with.
And like I said, it will also contain a number of good entry points.
So you'll see if there is any new websites, if there is any new deep web search engines and so on.
Another useful subreddit similar to the web is onions.
So again reddit dot com forward slash or forward slash onions.
Again in here you'll find links to hidden services, to onion websites and updates and news about vulnerabilities
and about what's new in the darknet.
On top of this, a really good place to get links would be forums or people that you start knowing,
you start contacting or you start talking to through messaging apps or through emails, and we'll talk
about how to use messaging apps and emails later on in the course.
Now, I also want to mention two other websites that I think could be useful, and I don't want to spend
a full lecture on them in the future.
The first one is Thread, which is a Reddit for the deep net.
So I'm just going to copy paste its link.
Now, like I said, keep in mind if any of these links don't work, just use one of the search engines
that I showed you in the previous lecture to search for the website name.
So if you paste this link in here and it doesn't work, all you have to do is just look for the red
onion link or onion service in one of the search engines that I showed you in the previous lecture.
And you should be able to find its link.
So as you can see, this is a website that has a very similar style to Reddit.
You have a number of subreddits in here or sub threads, and in it you can post or you can upvote downvote.
So the usage of this website is very, very similar to Reddit.
The only thing is you can discuss deep net or onion services related topics in here.
Last but not least, I also want to show you.
Hidden answers.
Now, this is similar to Quora or other websites where you can ask a question and get an answer, too.
Again, the only difference in here, first of all, it's more private, it's more anonymous.
And you can ask questions related to online services or to the deep web.
So that's it for this lecture.
Just wanted to cover more entry points that you can use to discover other online services or deep net
websites.
Like I said, the main thing to keep in mind is the links for these websites could change.
And you might try something that I used here and it wouldn't work for you if it doesn't just look for
the website name, forget about the URL, look for the website name.
For example, if you're looking for hidden answers, look for hidden answers in DuckDuckGo or in any
other search engine that I covered in the previous lecture.
And from there, you should be able to find a valid link for this particular hidden service.
Sometimes you could find a direct link, so either a direct onion link or in other cases you might find
a clear net website or another deep net website that will link you to this.
So the steps are simple look for the website, name and a search engine.
From there, you'll either find a direct link or another website that'll link you to this hidden service.