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CREATE A VANITY .ONION URL

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025
General, Operating System, Privacy, Raspbian, Ubuntu

Unfortunately for the dark web, you do not have the ability to create a fully custom url….you need immense power to be able to create a fully custom key. However you can create a partial custom, vanity url. Here is how

On an Ubuntu system:

Open a terminal

type:
sudo su –
apt-get update
apt-get full-upgrade
apt install gcc libc6-dev libsodium-dev make autoconf
mkdir vanity
cd vanity
git clone https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o.git
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
./mkp224o -d vanitykeys tacticalware

This will create a custom URL with the first part of it named tacticalware….which takes an immense amount of time to do… The result will look like this:
http://tacticalwarecr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

I did not create a tacticalware onion url….because it was going to take years at the present time to do it. I did create one for my personal onion site and here it is:
http://longleycr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

ARIA2C FOR DARKWEB DOWNLOADS ON KALI

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025
Articles, Operating System, Privacy, Scraping

Here is a quick how-to for using ARIA2C for downloading things

First install:
tor
torbrowser-launcher

Next:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you do not know how to do that, find the articles on this site.

Then configure this:
nano /etc/tor/torrc

Add in the following info at the bottom of the file:
SocksPort 9051
ExitNodes 27E1B97D9491013EF48479D4F47002F3358E0D92
StrictNodes 1
MaxCircuitDirtiness 999999999
NewCircuitPeriod 999999999

Save and exit the file

Next
sudo apt-get install aria2 -y

Reboot for good measure. You can restart services but I find mixed results when doing that.

Now open another terminal and start tor
tor

Then start a new terminal and open
torbrowser-launcher

Navigate to the site you want to download the info from and copy the link, for example you can get the onion from here:
https://www.ransomware.live/groups

once you have the link, open a terminal, make sure you have enough space for the download, and then run
torsocks aria2c –continue=true –max-tries=0 –retry-wait=30 –async-dns=false –file-allocation=none -s 10 -x 10 -k 1M -o Tacticalware.log http://longley4hay3dwh4rirth5xaomle34524523435id.onion/Tacticalware.rar

After the download completes, rename Tacticalware.log to Tacticalware.rar, and use 7z to open it.

If at any point the download fails completely, rename Tacticalware.log to Tacticalware.rar and you can also use 7z to open the file. You will have access to all the data that was downloaded within that zipped file, up to that point. SO all is not lost

INSTALLING PIHOLE ON RASPBERRY PI 5 WITH DOCKER

May 14, 2024August 6, 2024
Privacy, Searching

Assuming you already have a Raspberry Pi 5 setup with Debian, and also assuming you have Docker installed, here is how you setup Pi-Hole

Open a terminal

sudo su –
cd /home/yourusername
rm pihole.sh (if it exists)
nano pihole.sh
Copy this new docker script
https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/blob/master/examples/docker_run.sh
Change America/Chicago to America/New York
Save and Exit
sudo chmod u+x pihole.sh
./pihole.sh
Pihole now installs

Open a web browser and navigate to the IP/admin for example (not https)

Login… or if you did not get your password during the setup (happens sometimes)
From the terminal
docker exec -it pihole bash
sudo pihole -a -p
Create a new password

Back to your browser, and login.

Success

HOW TO SECURE YOUR TOR ONION KEYS

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024
Operating System, Privacy, Ubuntu

This is a quick guide on how to secure your Tor Onionsite from someone intercepting the keys and hijacking your domain.

Open a terminal and Type

sudo su –

Only hs_ed25519_secret_key is required for TOR to work

Copy other keys to a backup location

Do do this type:
mkdir /backup
mkdir /backup/current-tor-keys
cd /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
cp -R ./* /backup/current-tor-keys/
rm hs_ed25519_public_key
sudo chown -R debian-tor: /var/lib/tor/hidden_service
sudo chmod -R u+rwX,og-rwx /var/lib/tor/hidden_service

Now use WinSCP and copy the keys off the server to a safe location and delete them from your /backup directory

INSTALL TOR ON KALI 2024.1

March 11, 2024March 27, 2024
Articles, General, Kali, Operating System, Privacy

This is a quick guide on how to install tor on the newest version of Kali Linux. By default the version that I am running does not have it.

Open a terminal and Type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install tor -y
sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher -y

Now to run Tor you will need to open a second terminal

In the first terminal type:
tor
Press Enter. This will start the service

In the second terminal, type:
torbrowser-launcher
Press Enter

This will open the Browser

Try navigating to my Onion site to test it out:
longleycr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

HOW TO SETUP A TOR ONIONSITE ON APACHE

March 7, 2024March 27, 2024
Articles, Operating System, Privacy, Tools, Ubuntu

Here is a simple how-to guide on setting it up in 2024

First you will want a server that has nothing on it and is not publicly available. I suggest getting a spare PC, or setting it up on a VM.

Make sure the PC/VM is on a standalone VLAN and behind a firewall so no other traffic can get to it. Open NO Ports, setup No NATs, TOR does not need them open to function properly.

First, Install Ubuntu Server 22.04 or Ubuntu Server 24.04

Then ssh into the server

Type:
sudo su –

dpkg –print-architecture

If it is either amd64, arm64 or i386, it will work, if it is not any of those structures, find a different system to run it on.

Type:
apt install apt-transport-https

lsb_release -a

What is your version of linux? It wil be listed as something like
Codename: focal
or
Codename: jammy
or whatever the latest flavor is

Install Apache:
apt-get update

apt install apache2

mv /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/index.html.orig

nano /var/www/html/index.html

Type in
Hi, You Found Me!

Save and Exit

Now Type:
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

nano tor.list

paste in this:
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main

Change <DISTRIBUTION> to focal or jammy or whatever, so it looks like this:
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main

Save and Exit

Now type:
wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg –dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

apt update

apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

nano /etc/tor/torrc

Uncomment these lines by deleting the #

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

Save and Exit

systemctl restart tor

systemctl restart apache2

cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname

and your onion site will show like this:
longleycr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

Now you can go to a site like torgateway.com and browse to that onion site to ensure it is live. I would prefer if you actually used your own tor browser instead using a setup like the one I created here for Tor and Tails.

Enjoy the darkweb!

HOW TO ACCESS TOR SAFELY

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024
Articles, Crypto, General, Kali, Operating System, Privacy, Tools, Ubuntu

This is a quick How-To on installing Tails OS to a USB Drive, so you can use TOR on any computer, Anywhere

To start, on your computer:

Download BalenaEtcher and install it

Visit https://tails.net/ to get your copy of Tails, which was created by the makers of TOR

Download Tails, the latest version

Insert a USB into your Computer

Open BalenaEtcher

Click Flash From File

Select Tails

Select Target

Select your USB Drive

Click Flash!

Once it is done being flashed, you can put it in a computer to use

Boot/Reboot the computer

Select your USB Drive on startup

Tails will begin!

Once you are in Tails, to use TOR, click Activities in the Top Left

Select Tor Browser

Connect the circuit to the tor network.

Once connected to Tor you can test it by visiting my website:

Go to https://jaylongley.com and navigate to the Contact Page

Note that UBlock Origin has found trackers on my website. It finds google analytics and whatnot. This is supposed to happen. You will see why in a minute.

There you will see a tor address. Copy that address

Open a new tab in Tor

Place the Onion address that you received from my contact page, and navigate there

You will see my darkweb page appear

Now note UBlock Origin, has NO trackers here. To use Tor and ensure your safety, only work with pages and sites that do not track you!

Happy Surfing