the dark web itself isn't a Marketplace you can't visit those websites in a regular browser you have to do that while you're connected to the onion router even like murder For Hire there's there's counterfeit money there's fake IDs you know there all all kinds of different websites that do horrible things let's talk about the dark web so I hear a lot about the dark web well buzz word drugs on it you can find child on it you can you it sounds like it's just the the black market the New Black Market correct yeah so what I've heard about it I know about it I know it's all stuff you shouldn't be doing but how do you get on it what where is it okay so the dark web itself isn't a Marketplace like what you're thinking right so the so the black market or whatever you want to call it once you're connected to the dark web tour the onion router what I was explaining before you still need to know where to go to visit these horrible websites and they're like you know imagine a very long string of letters and numbers and the website instead of it' be onion you can't visit those websites in a regular browser you have to do that while you're connected to the onion router which you can download at the tour T's website and then you could go to a thing called like the hidden wiki and the hidden wiki will show you all different categories of these websites with with the link to them and uh and there's marketplaces there's horrible things on there like you said for kids and uh and even like murder For Hire there's there's conter money there's fake IDs you know there all all kinds of different websites that do horrible things what is the onion router so the UN router is a um is a tool an open source uh project that was created to uh anonymize your traffic on the internet and it decentralizes I think I believe decentralized would be the word for it uh your internet traffic it keeps you Anonymous Beyond a VPN I would still recommend that you use a virtual private Network on top of tour if you want to be anonymous but uh it's just a layer of security that's free and it keeps it it's like for example let's say you use uh Comcast for your internet service provider um they could see that you're using tour uh but they can't see what you're looking at um if you use a VP again and then you use tour they can they they can only tell you're using a VPN but they can't tell you're using tour so it's you know it's a just an internet within an internet so can I get on can I check my email through the dark web yes you go to any website would you recommend using the dark web to just do regular it's slow as hell internet stuff it's very slow yeah yeah I mean you could but and it would it would keep you safer but it's it's not going to it's not a foolproof way to keep yourself safe and it's painstakingly slow okay do you use the dark web uh for investigations yeah what kind of Investigations um for like the predator predator and pedophile cases yeah so are you able to track these guys down from the dark web even though they're technically Anonymous um a lot of times it doesn't need to go that far uh a lot of times these guys will use their regular emails or they'll use an IP address that's been you know they'll reuse for multiple emails or their face that they're using as their profile picture I can you know find them from B the same way I just found your face where they're using a phone number that traces right back to them uh the dark web you know it's it's not really a huge part of uh catching predators and and pedophiles um uh one one thing I I guess the only thing on the dark web quote unquote I hate that word but the dark web quote unquote that I have access to was when I originally hacked the website that we're going to talk about they branched out to have not only a website on the Clearnet on the regular internet but their website was mirrored on the dark web and I had three back doors in their system and uh and it branched out over to the dark web so I had a back door on the dark web too which was kind of a cool thing to have so I needed to be connected to tour the onion router to connect to my back back door but that was uh I was only using that back door to exfiltrate data every single day which was just user information because I didn't want to get their post or anything I didn't want to be in possession of anything horrible that they were sending each other but their user info was enough for us as I'm sure you'll learn shortly hey everybody I'm Shawn Ryan click here to subscribe to the Shawn Ryan Show YouTube channel for the hottest and most compelling interviews that you will not see anywhere else I've also made a playlist list of all the previous SRS episodes so they're easy to find you can find that right here