Hello and welcome.
My name is Zaid.
I'm an ethical hacker, a computer scientist.
And I'll be your instructor in this course.
Now before diving into the course content.
Let's talk about the main topics that we're going to cover in this course.
So we're going to talk about privacy, anonymity, the Darkweb and security.
I chose to cover all of these topics in one course because I think they are very related.
And sometimes on the Internet it's very difficult to achieve one of them without the others.
So starting with the first one, privacy means that no one knows what you do.
For example, when you go and enter your house, people can see that you entered your house, but they
don't know what you do inside the house.
Therefore, your private anonymity, on the other hand, means that people can see what you're doing,
but they don't know who you are.
For example, let's say while you're inside your house, you put a mask on and then you leave the house
and start washing your car.
Now people can see that there is somebody washing the car so they can see what you're doing.
They can see the activity, but they don't know who is that person washing the car because you have
a mask, therefore you're hiding your identity.
So when your private people know who you are, but they don't see what you do when you're anonymous,
people see what you do but don't know who is that person doing that activity so they don't know your
identity.
Now, on the Internet, usually we just want to be private, so we don't want other parties to be able
to see the messages or the emails or whatever we do on the Internet.
Unfortunately, though, it is very difficult to be private on the Internet because in order to use
the Internet, you have to use resources that are not owned by you.
So you have to use an Internet service provider.
And when you're accessing websites or using services, you're using servers owned by the services or
by third parties.
Therefore, you can't really control how your data is being handled.
For example, let's say you try to go to Google.com.
This request will, first of all, pass through a number of stops or a number of routers.
It will go to your Internet service provider again.
It will pass through a number of routers and a number of stops and eventually reaches Google servers,
which again are not controlled by you and then you get your response through a similar route.
Therefore, both your request and the response will pass through a number of stops that you don't own
or don't control.
So anybody operating or working on these tabs will be able to see your traffic.
You will be able to see your activity.
Not only that, but hackers and government agencies and other entities can possibly intercept these
requests and responses at any point and therefore see what you're doing.
Therefore, your privacy is gone.
So we use encryption whenever possible in order to improve our privacy.
But like I said, there will be some points and some situations where it is just not possible to be
private.
Therefore, the best solution is to try to become as anonymous as possible.
So if anybody manages to intercept our data, they won't be able to link it to ourselves or to our identity.
Now there are some situations where people actually want to be just anonymous.
For example, journalists usually prefer to publish sensitive posts anonymously so that everybody can
see the post.
So it's not hidden, it's not private, but at the same time it can't be linked to their real identity.
This way the post will be linked to some kind of identity.
So it will be linked to a fake name or simply just numbers or a ghost profile.
But it is linked to some kind of identity.
Therefore, this is known as pseudo anonymity.
Now, in order to achieve the above two things to become more private and more anonymous, we're going
to need two things.
First, we're going to need an anonymizing service that will allow us to become more anonymous.
And two, we're going to need to change our habits when it comes to using online services and use different
services that are more private and more anonymous.
Because the search engines that you're used to, for example, Google and Bing, the emails that you're
used to, Gmail and the others and all of the other services that you're used to use are simply not
private and not anonymous.
They profile you.
They collect data about you, and sometimes even sell it to third parties.
Unfortunately, on the clear net, there aren't a lot of useful online services that are private and
anonymous.
Luckily, though, the anonymizing services that we're going to use from 0.1 in order to become more
anonymous also contain a number of services and websites that only exist within this anonymizing service
or network.
Therefore, these are referred to as Darknet or dark web websites or services.
So I'm going to show you how to properly access the darknet and then use these services to carry out
our day to day tasks in a more anonymous and more private manner.
Last but not least, I also wanted to cover security in this course because you cannot be private and
anonymous if you are not secure, even if you're using the best privacy methods, the best anonymity
methods, the best VPNs, multiple proxies, and so on.
If somebody manages to hack into your computer, then first of all, they'll be able to see all of your
files and see your activity so you're not private.
And they'll also be able to bypass whatever methods you use to become anonymous and anonymize you.
That's why, like I said, you can't really be private and anonymous without being secure.
And by being private and anonymous, you're going to have to use some Darknet services.
Therefore, I'll have to teach you how to access the darknet and use it.
So the four topics really click with each other, and when you learn these topics, you'll be able to
use them and apply them in different situations.
You might be at a scenario that I can think of that requires you to be a little bit private or anonymous,
so you'll be able to learn whatever techniques I teach you in here in terms of anonymity or privacy
and apply them to whatever situation that you're in.