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BBC
bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion
ConsideringthattheBBCis
“committedtoimpartiality”,it’sstrange
to thinkofitscontentbeingcensored,
butsuchisthecaseincertaincountries
includingChina,IranandVietnam,
whichblockorrestrictaccesstothe
BBCNewswebsite.Nottobeoutdone,
theBeebhasnowlaunchedadark-web
‘mirror’sitetodeliverunbiasedand
uncensorednewstothecitizensof
thesecountriesviatheTornetwork.
Visitingthe‘.onion’addressabove
takesyoutotheinternationaleditionof
theBBChomepage,fromwhereyou
canclickthroughtoitsNews,Sportand
othersites(Newscanbeaccessed
directlyat s5rhoqqosmcispfb.onion/
news).Usefully,thehomepagealso
provideslinkstotheBBCNewssitein
nearly 3 0languages,includingChinese,
Persian,Russian,UrduandVietnamese.
Notethatyouwon’tbeabletowatch
anythingonBBCiPlayerthroughthe
mirrorsitebecauseTormakesitlook
likeyou’reoutsidetheUK,soit’snouse
forcatchinguponStrictlywhileyou’re
outoft he country.

CIA
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7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion
American intelligenceagencieshave
been lurking on the darkweb foryears,
so it makes sensefor theCIA to have its

There’smoretothe so-called eb than

dubiou nd criminalactivity. Rob t Irvine

rounds upeight ofthe best hidden sites thatare

completely safe andlegal touse

ownhiddensite, whichitl aunchedback

in May. Indeed,the wholeconceptof

‘onionrouting’, whichunderlies Tor,

wasoriginally developed forthe

purpose of protecting US intelligence

communications online.

Whereasmostonionaddresseshave

16 characters,the CIAhas optedfor a

finger-unfriendly 56 –asyou can see

from theridiculously long link under

theheadingforthis section –toreduce

theriskofimpersonation by hackers

(try bit.ly/ciator489 to save time and

typing). Th esiteitself is astrai ght

mirroroft he standard version, but

allows Torusers to contactand report

informationtothe CIAina“secure,

anonymous anduntraceable”manner.

Youcan also apply forjobswiththe

agency,browseits news archives and

search it sopen-source library, while

Thewebsiteswe’vecoveredinthisfeaturecan’tbeaccessedviayourusual

webbrowser.Instead,you’llneedto downloadandinstalltheTorBrowser

(www.torproject.org), whichisbasedonFirefoxandhasjustreacheditsninth

stableversion(seeBestFreeSoftwareonpage28).Typethe 1 6-character

‘.onion’URLintotheTorBrowser’saddressbar

andpressEntertovisitthehiddensite–youmay

finditslowertoloadthanastandardwebsite.

Contrarytopopularbelief,youwon’tbeexposed

to disturbingandillegalsitesbybrowsingwith

Torunlessyouspecificallygotothoseaddresses.

youngdark-webusers(withparents’

supervision)cancrackcodes,solve

puzzlesanddiscovercluesintheSpy

Kidsgamesarea.

Facebook

facebookcorewwwi.onion

Facebookmaybenotoriousfor

invadingitsusers’privacybut–unlike

thesimilarlynosyGoogle–itoffersa

darkwebversionthatletsyouaccess

thesocialnetworkthroughTor,while

maintainingthelatter’s‘cryptographic

protections’. Facebookinsists thatyou

sign up underyour real name,and you

wouldn’tbeable to find people (and

they wouldn’t be able to find you) if

everyoneusedpseudonyms,soi ts

onionsiteisnot aworkaround for

staying anonymous online.Instead,it’s

primarilyaimed at re sidents of

Make light ofthe

DARK WEB

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