Do be smart about your browsing-we have more security tips on the next page-and above all else, remember Onionland’s anarchistic nature. Since search engines don’t trawl the depths of the Darknet, the best guide to its realms are simple link directories.īut wait! Don’t close your browser in disgust quite yet. (Fun fact: The Onionland name pays homage to Tor, which was originally an acronym for “ The Onion Router.”)ĭiving into Onionland-after you’ve installed the proper software and taken the proper safety precautions more on that later-is awfully reminiscent of using the Surface Web of yesteryear. Your chances of finding these clandestine networks, much less specific content on them, are virtually nil unless someone already in the know points you in the right direction.Īnd it’s no wonder why. Consider Onionland, the major Darknet hiding inside the anonymity-protecting Tor network, which was the focus of last week’s hubbub. They cloak themselves in obscurity with specialized software that guarantees encryption and anonymity between users, as well as protocols or domains that the average webizen will never stumble across. Darknets, on the other hand, deliberately hide from the prying eyes of the searchable Web. Most of the flotsam and jetsam found in the Deep Web are unintentional cast-offs: dynamic database queries and odd file formats that search engines aren’t equipped to deal with.
