Noobs Guide to Internet Privacy and Safety

With such a large amount of organizations making an attempt to watch your activities on-line, you need to be aware of how to save yourself from the prying eyes. An easy defense in this field is using a proxy, which means that your requests bounces off a proxy server. This essentially means to the website you are accessing, it appears that the request is returning from the proxy server. the problem here is that if somebody monitors your traffic also, it's possible to determine that you connected to that proxy server, and the proxy server connected to the website.

TOR The Onion Router applies a principle of Onion Routing, which bounces your request off multiple proxy servers, making it exponentially difficult with each level of proxy server. This makes your connection secure, considering you follow certain precautions like using only the portable browser that comes with TOR, avoid using Flash and open documents downloaded through TOR solely after disconnecting from the net.

BUT # These days Tor alone isn't enough. It is recommended to use a legitimate, secure VPN (Usually paid), especially if you plan on using Tor for browsing the DarknetMarkets.

A few other tips:
Don't use your real personal email or name when registering for services on Tor/Dark/DeepWeb.
Use secure, strong, passwords.

Proxy + Tor + VPN

Those basic, necessary tools will start you in the right direction to protecting and securing your online activity/presence.

Stay tuned for # Part 2 # For more advanced techniques and tools to further hide and secure your presence online.