Now that we're getting more comfortable with navigating the darknet, we know how to access websites,
how to search for data and search for websites.
The next thing that you might need is an email account.
Now, similar to search engines, you can actually use email accounts with clear net providers such
as Google and Yahoo!
Because as we know, we can actually load these websites through the Tor browser.
So let me show you a quick look right here.
I have the signup page for Gmail in my Tor browser.
And as you can see, you're asked for a number of things such as your first name, your last name,
the email that you want when you click on next.
It will probably ask you for more personal information, such as your phone number and your address,
and then it will sign you up with an email.
Same.
We have Yahoo!
Here just as another example.
Again, as you can see, it asks you for a number of personal information and then when you fill this
up, you will get an email which you can use from Tor browser on darknet websites or in the darknet
really in general.
Now, first of all, we have a big problem where these mail providers are asking us for personal information,
for our name, for our address, for our phone number, and so on date of birth.
So these might be things that you don't really want to share with these mail providers.
Now, to get around this, I want to show you a good website, which you can use in many cases.
I'm going to include its link in the resources of this lecture, but as usual with with any other Darknet
website, if the link I gave you doesn't work, look for the website name because the links can change.
Now, basically what this website will do, it will create a fake identity for you.
So it will give you a gender, a name, a second name, age, address, phone number, email.
You can change this with your email once you actually change it, and it will basically give you detailed
information about a specific person and what you should do.
You should always use this information whenever you signing for any service on the darknet.
So this will be your identity.
You forget about who you are as soon as you start details, and from there on, you'll become the person
that you're getting from here.
Now, an even better solution to this is to take this information and even modify it yourself manually
so that you don't forget the information in here.
So maybe you can modify the first name, the second name, you can modify the email.
But the main idea here is you want to create an identity that you will always use when you're on the
darknet and you will never use when you're on the clear net.
This way your fake identity can never be linked to your real identity.
This is also better than you using different identities every time you sign up to a different service,
because this way you'll be more consistent, and this way you'll always be filling the same data.
But this data will be fake, so it's fine.
It's not going to link to you.
Now, you can use this information here, like I said, to sign up to one of these email services,
and then you can use this email for whatever reason you want when you're communicating with friends
or if you are signing up for other Darknet websites that require you to have an email address.
So this could be an easy solution, but there are still a number of drawbacks to it.
First, when you're accessing the service, you're exiting the Tor network.
Because like we said, when you want to go to a clear net website, you're going to first go through
the Tor network and then you're going to exit out of it to the service that you're trying to access.
Now, this exit will be unencrypted, like I said.
So anyone who intercepts this data might be able to read it and analyze it.
Not only that, but these email providers are known for logging you and tracking everything you do on
their servers.
So whatever you type, whatever you send, whatever you receive, Gmail probably going to keep logs
on every single thing you do now, even though you're using fake information.
And even though I'm going to show you how to encrypt your messages in the future, this could still
be a risk because like I said, they're going to be analyzing and tracking every single movement you
do.
So you can do this.
Like I said, use it with a fake identity.
Keep this fake identity completely separate from your real identity.
So make sure you never use any of this information on a clear net website.
Make sure you never use any account that's created within this fake identity to communicate with any
of your real accounts or any of your real friends on the clear net.
And this might be a good enough solution for you depending on your situation.
But in the next lectures, I'm going to show you more options if you want a more private and more anonymous
solution.
So when it comes to picking up an email service, it really depends on why do you want this email and
what's your threat model.
So the solution that I showed you here could be perfect for you, but it might not be perfect for another
person, or it could be perfect for you in a certain situation.
But it won't be good for other scenarios or other situations.
Therefore, in the next lectures, I'm going to show you a number of other solutions that you can use
in order to set up an email and communicate with other emails.
And then you can compare them and pick the best one for you based on the reason why you need this email
and based on your threat model.