WEBVTT 00:00.720 --> 00:07.940 Now that we know how to install the Tor browser and how to access the Tor network, even if Tor is blocked, 00:07.950 --> 00:15.000 let's have a quick overview on how to use this browser and how to configure its settings for maximum 00:15.000 --> 00:17.190 security and anonymity. 00:17.880 --> 00:25.470 Now, the first thing to keep in mind is never use Tor in fullscreen, always keep it on maximized, 00:25.470 --> 00:32.880 as you can see here, and just increase the screen size manually from the edges of the window because 00:32.880 --> 00:39.930 the size of the screen can be used to identify what kind of laptop or what kind of screen you're using. 00:40.770 --> 00:44.400 Also, it's a very good idea to always check for updates. 00:44.400 --> 00:51.000 So to do that, all you have to do is just go to The Onion right here and click on check for browser 00:51.000 --> 00:51.810 updates. 00:52.800 --> 00:58.710 So as you can see, I'm a check the third project dot org and everything is working for me. 00:58.710 --> 01:04.500 It's telling me that Tor is working and that my IP appears to be this IP. 01:04.680 --> 01:06.120 So this is all good. 01:06.750 --> 01:11.340 If we go here to the icon, you will see the third circuit. 01:11.340 --> 01:16.140 So these are the nodes that I've been showing you before in here. 01:16.200 --> 01:19.140 So this would be my first, second, third. 01:19.140 --> 01:25.200 And if we go back to here, you can see that my first or garde node is Germany. 01:25.200 --> 01:32.300 Then I'm going to the United Kingdom, then to Canada, and then go into the third project website. 01:32.310 --> 01:37.020 So these are my three nodes that I used to always show you. 01:37.020 --> 01:37.800 And here. 01:40.960 --> 01:42.320 So that's really cool. 01:42.340 --> 01:48.940 You can also click on new circuits for this site, and what this will do is it will randomly select 01:48.940 --> 01:51.970 three different nodes, different than what we have in here. 01:52.000 --> 01:58.510 This will basically change your IP and it will make you look like you're coming from a completely different 01:58.510 --> 01:59.200 IP. 01:59.290 --> 02:05.620 So if I click on it now, you'll see this page will refresh and you'll see my IP in here changed. 02:05.620 --> 02:12.310 And you can see that now I'm going to Germany, Germany, Moldova, and then I'm going to the target 02:12.310 --> 02:15.190 website which is tor project dot org. 02:16.240 --> 02:17.650 So that's very cool. 02:18.220 --> 02:20.710 What I also want to show you is the settings. 02:20.710 --> 02:27.940 So if we click on the onion icon in here, you can see again, we can request a new identity from here. 02:28.540 --> 02:35.890 When you click on new identity, the whole browser will close your cache, your history and all your 02:35.890 --> 02:38.160 browsing data will be removed. 02:38.170 --> 02:42.580 Then the browser will restart with a completely new circuit. 02:42.580 --> 02:48.850 So this option will make you lose all the tabs that you have open, but you will look like a completely 02:48.850 --> 02:49.990 different person. 02:49.990 --> 02:56.490 Whereas when you request a new circuit from here, this circuit will only affect the current website, 02:56.500 --> 03:02.420 the website that we have loaded here, and it won't delete your history or browsing data. 03:02.440 --> 03:05.620 So the only thing that will change is your IP. 03:05.650 --> 03:12.070 You will seem like you're coming from a different country or from a different IP, whereas the new identity, 03:12.280 --> 03:13.960 it'll change all of that. 03:13.960 --> 03:18.010 Plus it will close all tabs and it will remove all browsing data. 03:18.010 --> 03:21.820 So you will literally look like a completely new person. 03:23.810 --> 03:27.770 Next, I'm going to click on the Tor network settings. 03:28.400 --> 03:30.320 We've actually used this before. 03:30.320 --> 03:33.710 When we wanted to use pluggable transports and bridges. 03:33.710 --> 03:39.260 We ticked this option right here and we provided bridges in this box. 03:40.070 --> 03:43.220 Now, I'm not using bridges, so I'm going to uncheck this. 03:43.340 --> 03:49.670 The second option, if you're using a proxy to access the Internet so you can check this and put the 03:49.670 --> 03:51.140 proxy information. 03:51.260 --> 03:59.090 And finally, if you think your service provider or your network manager is using a firewall that only 03:59.090 --> 04:06.150 allows specific ports, then you can check this option and only use port eight and four for three. 04:06.170 --> 04:10.670 These are ports that are commonly used by websites on the Internet. 04:10.670 --> 04:12.890 It's used by pretty much all websites. 04:12.980 --> 04:18.530 Therefore, if you only use these ports, you'll manage to bypass some firewalls. 04:18.530 --> 04:21.710 But again, this will still slow your connection. 04:21.710 --> 04:26.900 So I'm going to keep this unchecked because as you can see, I'm able to access the turn network with 04:26.900 --> 04:30.200 my default settings, so I don't really need to change much. 04:31.250 --> 04:37.790 Finally, I want to show you some of the options that I recommend modifying just to make sure that we 04:37.790 --> 04:43.730 have configured our browser to be as secure and as anonymous as possible. 04:44.180 --> 04:50.900 So I'm going to click on the more options in here, and I'm going to go down now and here you can request 04:50.900 --> 04:54.340 a new identity or request a new circuit. 04:54.350 --> 04:58.550 I've already showed you how to do this, and I explained this at the start of the video. 04:58.550 --> 05:04.220 So we're not going to do it now, but what we want to do is to go to the options here. 05:05.490 --> 05:10.930 So you'll see an options window very similar to the one you get with a normal Firefox browser. 05:10.950 --> 05:17.250 And what I want to do is just modify some settings that I think will just make the browser a little 05:17.250 --> 05:18.540 bit more secure. 05:18.960 --> 05:22.740 So I want to go to privacy and security. 05:23.530 --> 05:30.370 And first of all, in the history, I'm going to modify this and make sure that it never remembers history. 05:31.280 --> 05:36.440 Next, I'm going to scroll down and we're going to go to the tracking protection. 05:36.710 --> 05:38.930 And I'm going to set this to always. 05:40.360 --> 05:42.100 Then I'm going to scroll down. 05:42.700 --> 05:45.860 I'm going to make sure that it's going to block, pop up windows. 05:45.880 --> 05:51.580 I'm going to make sure that it warns you when the browser tries to install add ons. 05:51.580 --> 05:58.930 And I also recommend checking this box to prevent accessibility services from accessing the browser. 05:58.930 --> 06:02.410 But checking this box will require you to restart the browser. 06:02.410 --> 06:04.150 So I'll do this at the end. 06:04.870 --> 06:06.820 So I'm going to scroll down more. 06:08.930 --> 06:11.240 Now we have the security settings here. 06:11.300 --> 06:13.450 I will cover them in the next lecture. 06:13.460 --> 06:21.110 So right now I'm going to keep scrolling down and I'm going to check block dangerous and deceptive content. 06:21.110 --> 06:27.320 And we're also going to make sure that these two boxes are checked to make sure that you get warned 06:27.320 --> 06:30.980 when a website tries to force you to download a file. 06:32.170 --> 06:37.510 So now that I'm happy with everything, I'm also going to check this box to prevent the accessibility 06:37.510 --> 06:38.420 services. 06:38.440 --> 06:43.360 Like I said, I think this will make your browser as secure as possible. 06:43.660 --> 06:49.450 Some of the settings that we're setting here will break some websites, but we're going for maximum 06:49.450 --> 06:50.350 security. 06:50.860 --> 06:57.580 And you can also come in and experiment with these, reduce it bit by bit to tailor and to suit your 06:57.580 --> 06:58.210 use. 06:58.780 --> 07:00.500 So I'm going to check this. 07:00.520 --> 07:03.100 It's going to ask me if I want to restart the browser. 07:03.100 --> 07:05.230 We're going to say, yes, that's fine. 07:07.470 --> 07:11.540 And as you can see, the browser is working now again with no problems. 07:11.550 --> 07:17.610 Just to double check, we can go to check dot to our project dot org. 07:19.670 --> 07:20.510 And perfect. 07:20.510 --> 07:22.820 As you can see, the browser is working. 07:22.850 --> 07:25.500 If we click here, we can see our circuit. 07:25.520 --> 07:31.010 We're coming out of France and this is the IP that we appear that we're using.