You must have heard of the dark web or the deep web and as you know it’s a scary place and its full of skilled cybercriminals.
So it becomes necessary to secure yourself while visiting this wild part of the internet.
Today I am going to tell you about some precautions that you should use while surfing the dark web & guide by PrimeTechie.
Secure Your Browser
Securing your browser must be your top priority as hackers can exploit it to gain access to your machine. So let’s talk about some ways by which you can make your browser more hardened.
1.If a website doesn’t use HTTPS, don’t use it.
2.Disable JavaScript using the NoScript plugin
3.Disable all the plugins as they can be used to track/ exploit your system
4.Don’t use search engines like Google which track you. Instead, go for DuckDuckGo which doesn’t keep the records or inject tracking cookies into your browser
5.If you download something from the dark web it’s ok but consider opening it in a sandbox or a virtual machine.
6.Don’t use torrent because torrent uses a peer-to-peer connection instead of using TOR network.
7.Don’t maximize the TOR browser’s windows as it can be used to determine the screen size of your device.
Secure your browser even more
Enter about:config in your browser tab and press enter.
Then make the following changes:
If your operating system is easy to hack then it could be a problem…a really really bad problem.
Secure Your Identity
And the most important thing is to hide your identity.
- Get a new laptop
- Get a new USB and install Tails in it. Tails is a Linux distro dedicated to security and privacy.
- Now install tor and set TOR browser’s security setting to high.
- Follow all the security measures we have discussed above