13 guides
Trail Guides
Guides grouped by stage: finding the address, following an address change, checking signed announcements and staying safe as a visitor.
Finding the address
Where the WeTheNorth market URL is actually announcedNot every page that mentions the WeTheNorth market URL is a source. How to tell the original announcement apart from the many copies of it.Read guide →How to read a post that shares a WeTheNorth market linkA practical way to judge a post that shares a WeTheNorth market link: who posted it, when, and whether the link matches the last confirmed address.Read guide →WeTheNorth onion addresses versus ordinary web pages about themThe WeTheNorth market onion opens only in Tor Browser. Ordinary web pages that talk about it are references, not the market itself.Read guide →
Address changes
Why the WeTheNorth market address changes from time to timeOnion addresses are tied to keys, so a change of key means a new WeTheNorth market address. Common reasons operators rotate addresses.Read guide →Hour by hour: when a WeTheNorth market mirror rotatesA typical sequence of events when a WeTheNorth market mirror is replaced, from the first announcement to the moment old copies stop circulating.Read guide →What to do when your saved WeTheNorth link stops workingA bookmark that suddenly fails is the moment phishing pages wait for. Calm steps to find the current WeTheNorth link without guessing.Read guide →
Signed announcements
Checking a PGP-signed WeTheNorth mirror list step by stepHow to verify a signed WeTheNorth mirror list with the operators' public key, and which part of the message the signature actually covers.Read guide →What a dated canary message tells WeTheNorth visitorsSome services publish regularly signed canary messages. How to read the date, the signature and what an overdue canary might mean.Read guide →Fake WeTheNorth "support" accounts and how they operateImpersonators pose as WeTheNorth staff to hand out new links or collect logins. Patterns that expose them.Read guide →Keeping your own notes on WeTheNorth keys and fingerprintsA short personal record of the WeTheNorth signing key and past announcements makes the next address change much easier to verify.Read guide →
Visitor safety
Using Tor Browser from a Canadian connectionPractical notes for visitors in Canada: installing Tor Browser, dealing with networks that block Tor and keeping the setup up to date.Read guide →A ten-second check before logging in at a WeTheNorth URLA quick habit before typing anything at a WeTheNorth URL: compare the address, look for unexpected requests and trust your password manager.Read guide →If you typed your details into a fake WeTheNorth pageSteps to take immediately after entering a password on a fake WeTheNorth page, in the order that limits the damage most.Read guide →