That underground warren of anonymous sites known as the dark web has a reputation for nightmarish stuff like child porn and hit men for hire. It does indeed contain those horrors—and a lot of perfectly decent things. Fire up your Tor browser and explore the lighter sides of the dark web with your conscience intact.
News outlets like The Guardian, The Intercept, and The New Yorker all host dark web drop sites for anonymously leaked tips and documents. So does WikiLeaks, which popularized the concept and recently relaunched its own submission system.
NEW YORKER: strngbxhwyuu37a3.onion
GUARDIAN: 33y6fjyhs3phzfjj.onion
INTERCEPT: y6xjgkgwj47us5ca.onion
WIKILEAKS: wlupld3ptjvsgwqw.onion
PSA: Drugs are bad. Sometimes. But studies show that most visitors to sites like the now-defunct Silk Road and its reigning replacements like Alpha Bay, Abraxas, Nucleus and the soon-to-go-offline Agora are seeking to spend their bitcoins on pot, LSD, and ecstasy, not life-destroying heroin or meth. Who are we, anyway, your parents?
ABRAXAS: abraxasdegupusel.onion
ALPHABAY: pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion
NUCLEUS: nucleuspf3izq7o6.onion
Facebook and the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo now host their own dark web sites to offer users an extra layer of protection against surveillance. Sure, Facebook knows a lot about you. But that doesn’t mean every government eavesdropper between your MacBook Pro and Menlo Park should too.
FACEBOOK: facebookcorewwwi.onion
DUCKDUCKGO: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
