Your password belongs on the onion

The market’s login form lives on the .onion addresses, and only there. You will meet copies of it in email subjects, forum signatures, and websites with the same logo sitting on a .com domain. The copies are where passwords go to die.

Black Ops Market addresses

The login page is one captcha away from any of these addresses. Nothing else on the internet can show you the real one.

• blackops5l63qnwnmlnsfvtlu66md3x3vp3fdtpna42eq7ozujr67hid.onionCopy
• blackops6kignp3eddmvqcfkjzf6qr6haxbmkypc2xtqlnhuu4ak4dqd.onionCopy
• blackops27m32abqvbhnyswgazqawxqbznbzkkkv5sjo7gve2ndpsdad.onionCopy

What the real one looks like

After the queue and the captcha, the login is a small form: a username field, a password field, and a one-time code field if you have two-factor turned on. The address bar is still your blackops…onion from the moment the market loaded until the moment you are in. If the address changed at any point in that interval, stop and start over. There is no version of this form that legitimately lives on a clearnet domain.

Rules that keep accounts alive

• Do not reuse it. Not the email password, not the exchange password, not the one from the other market you trade on. A leaked password should cost you one account, not a chain of them.
• Long beats clever. A four-word passphrase you can remember is harder to crack than a short one with a capital letter and a number bolted on.
• Turn on two-factor on the first day, not after the first scare. The code comes from an app on your phone, and the app never needs to talk to the clearnet for it to work.
• When you forget a password, recovery happens on the same onion, inside the market. There is no “forgot password” link that leads to a .com site, and the button that promises to “retrieve your old password” is a collection form.

Nothing on these pages will ever ask for your password. The login lives on the market’s own addresses, and only there.

Without an account

Browsing the storefront works without logging in: categories, vendors, prices, all visible. Accounts on Black Ops have historically come by invitation, through an existing member. Treat an email or a listing that sells an “instant verified account” at a discount as exactly what it is: a product, with you as the packaging.