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I mean, what's the worst thing
that could happen on the deep web?
*Laughs*

BRIAN: So the deep web is different from the dark web?
JASON: Yes, the dark web is a subset of the deep web
where you find pornography that is illegal
on most planets, and sorcery, and drugs.
BRIAN: So if the content is not illegal
and generally frowned upon --
-- Generally frowned upon... that's not harsh enough...
Evil?
JASON: Evil!
And frowned upon.
BRIAN: But the deep web itself is just like - it's an internet under the internet?
JASON: Yeah, it's not indexed
by any search engines. It's on a DNS server.
BRIAN: It's not like you go to badsite.URL or something.
JASON: Correct, yeah, you can't click a link to go there.
BRIAN: So how do you get there?
JASON: You have to have a specific browser called the Tor browser.
BRIAN: All right, now this is the one,
if I remember correctly,
it's relatively anonymous,
it keeps everything highly diversified right?
JASON: Yes, It's all about privacy and avoiding censorship.
BRIAN: So if you're in an economically unstable area,
like during a war or something, or there's an uprising,
almost everybody's using the Tor browser
to connect with each other
because the other side can't find them. Right?
JASON: Exactly. Or maybe a fascist
government has cracked down on internet access.
You could use the Tor browser and
a few other little things we're gonna
show you to get around that.
BRIAN: So this is the thing, I think about using my desktop computer to, you know,
to get Tor and all this stuff, but I would love it
if everything was perfectly encapsulated
and I knew it was totally
divorced from the rest of my main system.
JASON: Yes, so we are going to install the Tails OS.
BRIAN: I'm assuming this is some kind of Linux thing?
JASON: Yes, it stands for
The Amnesic Incognito Live System.
BRIAN: Oh, this is great! So that means it forgets it,
it doesn't show who you are,
JASON: Yes.
BRIAN: and it's alive.
JASON: It does not...
BRIAN: It's a live system!
JASON: Yes, it's an AI... No.
It doesn't leave any sort of footprint on the device that you're using it on.
BRIAN: So this entire thing, it's like
having a miniature computer in a USB disk.
You put it in and you boot to it.
It's a self contained environment,
you browse anonymously and when you take it out, there's no trace.
JASON: Yes, and the Tails OS comes
with the Tor browser.
BRIAN: Alright, where do we go?
JASON: We're gonna go to tails.boum.org
BRIAN: Alright so this is it? We just download this?
JASON: Yes. Yeah, you just go to this install...
BRIAN: Wow! Yeah, no, this is
definitely holding your hand,
making this as easy as possible.
JASON: It is so simple.
BRIAN: So all you need is two USB sticks, two hours.
JASON: It does take a long time to download the ISO,
which is the full program
encapsulated in a single file. Now you're gonna want to download it from Firefox
or from BitTorrent
because there's an extension on firefox
that validates the ISO is legitimate and you're not downloading a bomb on your computer.
BRIAN: *Laughs nervously*
That would be an impressive feat.
JASON: Someone set us up the bomb.
BRIAN: Install Firefox add-on... This is easy.
Deep Web here I come!!
JASON:  Now we can download the ISO of Tails.
BRIAN: Yeah, right on. Save.
One hundred... 200 minutes. You've got some time.
Whoo boy... Wi-Fi, am I right?
JASON: It will walk you through a USB installer
to put the Tails OS on a USB drive.
This USB drive.
BRIAN: So we just need to boot to this.
Now most computers don't
default to boot to the USB device, so we're
gonna have to go into the BIOS to change that, right?
JASON: Correct. Hurry. Feds are outside.
BRIAN: Oh jeez. I was like, what, what do I do!
That explodes in 20 seconds! Ahh!
First, save changes. There we go.
This is the moment. It's flashing. I think that's good.
BRIAN: Ah! 
ASON: There we go.
BRIAN: Boot Tails? Go live?
JASON: Yes.
BRIAN: I really hope we did all this right.
JASON: Oh my god! We accidentally ordered the drugs!
BRIAN: I cannot believe how smelt
this operating system is.
The fact that everything's running just off of a 16-gigabyte thumbstick.
JASON: I think it might actually be a 8 gigabytes...
BRIAN: Oh really?
JASON: Yeah.
BRIAN: Jeez.
Looad! Uh, welcome to tails!
God, I feel like we're in some foreign land!
JASON: And here it is, right?
And it's just so lean and sleek.
BRIAN: Yeah, all right, so I'm gonna assume that whatever I want is in "Home".
This says "Tor browser". Is there something in there?
JASON: No, well you can go to "Applications".
BRIAN: Wow! Look at that!
JASON: Yeah.
BRIAN: I'm so excited.
JASON: Tor is not ready.
BRIAN: Start anyway! Just go!
Nothing will go wrong here!
Oh we're not connected.
JASON: Oh. Yeah. Smart.
BRIAN: Smart. You have to be connected to Wi-Fi.
JASON: You have to be connected to the internet.
BRIAN: I'm gonna do this little, uh, this little thing here.
Woah, oh, oh, oh! We're connected!
JASON: What?
BRIAN: We're there!
JASON: Okay.
BRIAN: I assume we can surf regular sites.
JASON: The regular internet is still there.
BRIAN: Google doesn't know where we are.
JASON: Correct.
BRIAN: It's not tracking us, there's no cookies,
it can't find us.
I mean I suppose if we had committed a crime they would help find us,
but basically we're invisible as far as that matters.
JASON: I believe so.
BRIAN: Look at this! Look at this!
What is my IP address?
This one says we're here. This one says we're 66.249.
Speed test is 171.25. 
JASON: Is it spoofing IP addresses?
BRIAN: Well that's the thing, it distributes it.
So the question "What is my IP address?",
each request goes from different places.
This is all the surface internet
cause we're still using DNS services, right?
JASON: Correct. Now most of the sites that we
are going to want to look at
on the Tor browser are .onion sites.
BRIAN: Okay, how do you find the .onion sites?
JASON: That's a little more tricky. You have to use some of the more clever search engines
like DuckDuckGo or go look on Reddit.
JASON: I have an address for a hidden wiki that has
a lot of sites indexed on there that you can go to.
BRIAN: Oh great! Where is that one?
JASON: *sighs* Okay.
DIRNXXDRAYGBIFCC.onion
JASON: Does it like it?
BRIAN: I don't know. That's a hell of a onion name.
You don't call them URLs right?
Or I guess it is a URL
JASON: Yeah, I guess so, right?
BRIAN: Alright, alright.
JASON: This new territory for me.
BRIAN: This reminds me of the old days of
being on CompuServe, and 2400 baud modems
when it was all just person to person.
Oh, oh, oh!
JASON: Hey!
BRIAN: OnionDir - Deep Web link directory!
JASON: Yes!
BRIAN: So we can go to DuckDuckGo, onion wiki, Tor Projects, AnonNet Webproxy.
JASON: Bitcoin sites.
BRIAN: Of course!
JASON: Oh, here's one that's called "Project Evil".
I'm sure that's fine.
BRIAN: Oh man... "Discounted electronics goods".
Think about it, if you're in a country
where you can't import certain things,
you can now access it.
JASON: Here's one that says "UK guns and ammo".
UNISON: "Hitman network"?
BRIAN: Whoo boy!
Tor bet coin. Gambling's illegal in a bunch of places.
Marketplace drugs? Jesus Christ! This is all dark.
You said we're going to the Deep Web.
This is Dark Web! We took a wrong turn!
Now we're talking. Look at these blogs: Deep web radio, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Scientology archive?
JASON: Yeah, because Scientology all of their stuff is copyrighted.
This is an archive of stuff that will not get shut down.
BRIAN: Wow.
JASON: "Smokables! Buy this organic cannabis".
Forums and chans. I'd like to avoid all chans for now.
BRIAN: Oh my god.
BRIAN: Email messaging. Political!
JASON: Yeah.
BRIAN: Now we're talking.
JASON: Bugged Planet.
BRIAN: Erotic.
BRIAN: *cringes*
*Laughs*
JASON: Kerosene! No!
There's a lot of nefarious,
terrifying things going on here.
Marketpl-- let's take a look at marketplace
commercial services here. No?
BRIAN: Are you f***ing high?
What do you think is in there?
JASON: I don't know. Rare issues of
Power Man and Iron Fist?
BRIAN: People who never want to be found?
JASON: Out of print Spider-man comics.
BRIAN: Alright.
WikiLeaks!
JASON: WikiLeaks.
BRIAN: I never thought I'd be so happy to find WikiLeaks.
I'm like: "What are we gonna see?"
JASON: Yeah why can't we connect to anything?
BRIAN: Tor browser is way slow, because that's the trade-off for security.
You can't do the cashed local things.
JASON: Right.
BRIAN: It's got to send it all the way
to France and over to India and then come around...
JASON: Deep Web radio's up.
BRIAN: Alright, alright.
See there we go.
JASON: I don't know what's forbidden about any of this.
BRIAN: See? That's just it.
It's not about what's forbidden,
although that's certainly a part of it
when it comes to the Dark Web,
but this is about maintaining your privacy.
There's lots of really good reasons
people want their privacy.
You have people who are in abusive relationships,
you have people on the run from stalkers,
you have people whose sexual orientation
isn't acceptable where they live.
This is a way where they can connect with other people
and feel safe.
JASON: Ah, so it doesn't involve buying guns or drugs.
BRIAN: It doesn't necessarily involve
but that's, in fact... You know what?
I'm gonna go back to safeland.
JASON: You're missing the point. This is safe land.
BRIAN: I want to go to fast land,
where I can get stuff immediately.
