Disclaimer - DeepHiDX

Last updated: 25 September 2026

DeepHiDX is here to teach, not to help anyone break the law. Nothing on this website encourages or helps anyone commit a crime.

We write about the dark web, online crime and hacking because these subjects are badly misunderstood, and that misunderstanding causes real damage. People fall for scams they could have spotted. Companies protect themselves against the wrong things. Public arguments happen based on things that are simply not true.

Explaining how something works is not the same as helping someone do it. This page explains exactly where we draw that line.

Why we publish

Everything here is for learning and information. Our readers are people trying to understand something: students, researchers, journalists, IT workers, and people who have been targeted and want to know what happened to them.

If you understand how phishing works, you can spot it. If you understand how ransomware gangs operate, you can prepare for them. If you understand what the dark web really is, you stop believing the nonsense about it. That is the point of this site, and it is the only point.

What we never publish

This is a firm rule and we apply it to every single article:

No links or addresses for illegal websites. We do not have them and would not share them.
No working hacking tools or virus files. We explain what these things do. We do not hand them out.
No step-by-step instructions for fraud, hacking, or hiding stolen money.
No stolen personal data, and no links to places that host it.
No advice on committing or hiding a crime, however the question is worded.

When leaving something out changes the story, we tell you we left it out and why. We will not answer emails asking for any of the above. Those get deleted.

The law is your responsibility

Laws about computers, encryption, privacy tools and security testing are very different from country to country, and they change. Something completely normal in one place can carry a prison sentence in another. This is especially true of encryption and anonymity software, which is restricted or banned in a number of countries.

We cannot tell you what the law is where you live. Nothing here is legal advice, and no article should be read as saying an activity is legal for you. If you need to know, speak to a lawyer in your own country.

Never test security techniques on anything you do not own or do not have clear written permission to test. Breaking into a computer without permission is a crime almost everywhere, and meaning well is usually not a defence.

This is not professional advice

Not legal advice. We are not lawyers. Speak to one.
Not money or investment advice. When we write about cryptocurrency, we are explaining how it is used and traced in crime. We are never telling you to buy or sell anything.
Not a security consultancy. Our advice is general. It cannot know your systems, your risks or the rules your industry has to follow.
Not emergency help. If you are being attacked right now, or have just been hacked, contact a professional or your country cyber security agency. Do not sit reading an article.

Security advice goes stale

This deserves its own warning, because it is the most likely way our work could mislead you.

Advice that was correct when we wrote it can become useless, or even dangerous, as software, criminals and laws change.

Always check the date on an article. If you are going to rely on something, check it against a current source first. Our Sources & Research page lists good places to look. We do update our articles, as explained in our Editorial Policy, but we cannot promise every page is perfectly current the moment you read it.

We try to be accurate, but we are human

We check every fact against a real source before publishing, using our Fact-Checking Policy. We still get things wrong occasionally. When we do, we fix it in public and leave the correction there permanently, under our Corrections Policy.

A lot of what we cover is genuinely unclear or argued over. Where the evidence does not give an answer, we say so instead of inventing one. Our Conspiracy Files section shows how we handle that. The site comes with no guarantees; see our Terms & Conditions.

Links to other websites

We link to government agencies, universities, researchers and other publications. We do not control those sites and cannot promise they are accurate. A link means we used it as a source, not that we approve of everything on it. We never link to dark web directories, markets or illegal services.

Writing about something is not approving of it

Explaining how a criminal group works does not mean we admire them. Explaining why an attack worked does not mean we are impressed. If our writing sounds calm and neutral, that is because a clear description is more useful to you than us telling you that crime is bad, which you already know.

The same goes the other way. Describing a privacy tool is not a promise that it will keep you safe. Every tool has limits, and we try to always tell you what they are.

If something has happened to you

If you have been scammed, hacked or had your data stolen, report it to your country official service. In the United States that is the FBI IC3, and most countries have one. If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.

We are a website. We cannot recover your accounts, trace people, remove things from other websites, or step in on your behalf, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is explain what happened, which sometimes makes the next step obvious.

Not sure about something?

If you are ever unclear whether something on this site is meant as instructions, just ask: ehtijadalee@gmail.com. And if you think an article crosses the line described on this page, please tell us. We take that seriously.