WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:10.050 So now that we have Thales installed on a USB stick, we can use this USB stick to boot into tails from 00:10.050 --> 00:16.890 any computer regardless of what operating system that computer runs, whether it runs Windows, Linux 00:16.890 --> 00:19.560 or OS X, it doesn't really matter. 00:19.800 --> 00:27.060 All we'll have to do is connect the USB device that we install tails two to the computer that we want 00:27.060 --> 00:30.990 to run tails on, start the computer or restarted. 00:30.990 --> 00:38.250 If it's already running, then as it starts, before it even gets into the loading page of Windows or 00:38.250 --> 00:43.350 Ice X as soon as it starts, you want to enter the boot menu. 00:43.740 --> 00:50.610 Now this varies depending on the computer that you have, so you'll have to press a button or maybe 00:50.610 --> 00:54.360 a combination of buttons in order to enter the boot menu. 00:54.360 --> 00:58.710 And this will differ depending on your computer. 00:59.100 --> 01:05.820 So here I have a list of the most common brands and the corresponding keys that will allow you to enter 01:05.820 --> 01:06.840 the boot menu. 01:06.870 --> 01:12.900 For example, if you have an Acer, you should try to press scape F 12 or F nine. 01:13.050 --> 01:20.370 So what you do is you connect your USB device to the computer, you start the computer or restart it. 01:20.370 --> 01:28.380 If it's already running, then keep pressing the escape button multiple times until you see a boot menu 01:28.380 --> 01:30.930 like this one or similar to this one. 01:31.590 --> 01:37.200 If you don't see it, if you boot into the default operating system that your computer usually boots 01:37.200 --> 01:42.210 in, then you should restart and try the next option in the list. 01:43.480 --> 01:48.790 If you tried all of the options and it still doesn't work, then check out the links in the resources 01:48.790 --> 01:52.660 of this lecture on more info on how to boot into tails. 01:52.660 --> 01:59.650 And if you can't find any help, then ask us in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you within 15 hours. 02:00.340 --> 02:06.490 Once you enter the boot menu, you want to select the option that will allow you to boot from a USB 02:06.520 --> 02:09.520 or an external storage hit. 02:09.520 --> 02:13.240 Enter and you will see the tails boot menu. 02:13.240 --> 02:18.610 As you can see in here, you want to keep this at the first option and hit enter. 02:19.260 --> 02:23.450 This will start booting tails from the USB device that you connected. 02:23.460 --> 02:26.970 So give it some time to start the operating system for you. 02:28.160 --> 02:28.700 Perfect. 02:28.700 --> 02:32.150 So as you can see, we have the welcome window of tales. 02:32.360 --> 02:37.610 And if you want to start straight away, all you'd have to do is just click on Start Tales. 02:38.330 --> 02:44.030 But before doing that, let's take a quick look on the options that we can modify in here. 02:44.210 --> 02:50.300 So first of all, you can modify the language which is set to English United States by default, and 02:50.300 --> 02:51.710 I'm going to keep it that way. 02:52.460 --> 02:54.950 The keyboard is also set to English us. 02:54.980 --> 03:00.110 Now you might you might want to modify this if you have a different layout, but I think it's a good 03:00.110 --> 03:04.880 idea to keep it at the default settings because that will give even less info. 03:04.910 --> 03:11.300 Now I know I said that tails won't leave any traces, but I just like to keep things to the default. 03:11.300 --> 03:14.710 And here again we have the calendar format. 03:14.720 --> 03:16.640 I'm going to keep that to the default. 03:16.910 --> 03:21.770 And at the bottom here we have additional settings or advanced settings. 03:22.340 --> 03:26.210 So I'm going to click on the Plus to show you the settings that you can set here. 03:26.330 --> 03:30.830 And the first thing that you can set is an administration password. 03:31.310 --> 03:35.810 So by default, tails disables the admin account. 03:35.810 --> 03:37.810 So as you can see, it's set to off. 03:37.820 --> 03:42.500 So when you go and use the operating system, there will be no admin. 03:43.070 --> 03:49.580 The reason it's configured this way so that if someone manages to hack into your system, they won't 03:49.580 --> 03:55.820 have admin permissions, so they won't be able to change core functions or core settings within the 03:55.820 --> 03:57.020 operating system. 03:57.020 --> 04:01.040 And they also won't be able to install any applications. 04:01.730 --> 04:07.640 If for some reason you needed to modify something that requires admin settings, or if you wanted to 04:07.640 --> 04:12.890 install programs on the system, then you can enable the admin account. 04:12.890 --> 04:19.610 From here you can click on this and you set a password, you repeat the password and click on add to 04:19.610 --> 04:20.270 add it. 04:20.990 --> 04:25.520 Keep in mind that this account will only be added for this current session. 04:25.520 --> 04:32.060 Once you restart the computer, the admin account will disappears along with all the modifications that 04:32.060 --> 04:33.230 you make to tales. 04:33.230 --> 04:40.010 Because, like we said, Tales is a live, amnesiac operating system that completely wipes everything 04:40.010 --> 04:43.240 that you do every time you restart the computer. 04:43.250 --> 04:49.640 So when you create an admin account in here and login, this admin account will disappear and will not 04:49.640 --> 04:52.310 even exist once you restart the computer. 04:52.310 --> 04:57.770 So if you want to use an admin account again, the next time you use this system, you're going to have 04:57.770 --> 04:59.930 to come to this menu and create it. 05:00.560 --> 05:05.780 But for now, I don't really want to do anything that requires admin privileges and I don't want to 05:05.780 --> 05:07.250 install any programs. 05:07.250 --> 05:11.090 So I'm going to click on back and I'm going to keep this TA off. 05:11.810 --> 05:18.050 The next setting that you might want to modify is the MAC spoofing, and as you can see, this is set 05:18.050 --> 05:20.000 to on by default. 05:20.810 --> 05:29.630 Now, MAC address is a unique and permanent address that is assigned to every network device. 05:30.650 --> 05:35.990 It gets assigned to it at the time the device is manufactured and it never changes. 05:35.990 --> 05:42.860 So for example, if I have an Ethernet card or a wi fi card and unplug it from my computer and connect 05:42.860 --> 05:48.320 it to a completely different computer, that card will still have the same Mac address. 05:48.800 --> 05:52.400 Now, this Mac address is only visible within your network. 05:52.400 --> 05:54.380 It's not visible on the internet. 05:54.380 --> 06:01.100 As we know, tales automatically routes all internet traffic through TOR, so we're not really concerned 06:01.100 --> 06:03.320 about stuff that happens on the internet. 06:03.320 --> 06:10.520 It should hide our identity automatically, but within the network, the Mac address is visible and 06:10.520 --> 06:17.600 the Mac address is unique and permanent, like I said, and therefore it can be used to identify you. 06:18.080 --> 06:23.060 So this option by default is set to on and I'm going to keep it to on. 06:23.060 --> 06:28.430 So that tails will also change my Mac address every time I start it. 06:28.430 --> 06:34.010 Therefore, my Mac address will be changed so I'll be hidden or anonymous within the network. 06:34.010 --> 06:40.430 And when I connect to the internet, all the traffic will automatically go through the Tor network and 06:40.430 --> 06:42.980 therefore it will improve my anonymity. 06:43.790 --> 06:52.130 The only time you might want to set this to off is if the network that you're connecting to uses a whitelist. 06:52.130 --> 06:59.300 So if it's only allows specific Mac addresses to connect to it, and if your Mac address is one of these 06:59.300 --> 07:05.810 whitelisted MAC addresses, that's the only time that you might want to set this to off, otherwise 07:05.810 --> 07:11.660 it's better to keep it at on so your identity is hidden within your network. 07:12.230 --> 07:17.690 Now, the third option here, the network connection, and this is set to direct the default. 07:17.690 --> 07:23.930 Like I said, this means that all traffic sent from any application on tails will have to go through 07:23.930 --> 07:24.800 the Tor network. 07:24.800 --> 07:27.650 So this is perfect, but if we click on it. 07:28.070 --> 07:30.740 You'll also see we have two other options. 07:31.010 --> 07:34.910 The second option is to configure a third bridge or a proxy. 07:34.910 --> 07:39.830 And we already discussed what bridges, pluggable transports and proxies are. 07:39.860 --> 07:45.290 Previously, in the course, we discussed how to get them and why you might want to use them. 07:46.070 --> 07:48.590 So I'm not going to really talk about it right now. 07:48.590 --> 07:53.450 If you don't remember what they are, please go back and revise the previous section. 07:53.990 --> 08:00.620 I will, however, show you how to use a bridge or a pluggable transport with Thales because we only 08:00.620 --> 08:03.020 covered how to do it with Tor browser. 08:03.020 --> 08:07.490 So I'll show you how to do this with Thales in a future lecture. 08:07.520 --> 08:10.190 For now, we're keeping this to the default. 08:10.340 --> 08:13.790 Obviously the third option here will disable all networking. 08:13.790 --> 08:17.810 We don't want to this right now, so we're keeping everything here to the default. 08:17.810 --> 08:24.260 And I'm going to click on Cancel and we're back to the welcome menu in which we can just shut down or 08:24.260 --> 08:25.250 start Thales. 08:26.230 --> 08:31.120 So now that we're happy with all of these settings, I'm going to click on Start Tales to start the 08:31.120 --> 08:32.320 Operating System. 08:33.840 --> 08:34.620 On Perfect. 08:34.620 --> 08:38.880 As you can see, we get a nice and simple desktop. 08:39.150 --> 08:44.700 I know it might look strange to you, especially if you're used to windows, but don't worry, it's 08:44.700 --> 08:51.300 actually very simple to use and it's very similar to a lot of operating systems, even though it looks 08:51.300 --> 08:52.590 a little bit different. 08:53.160 --> 08:58.920 In the next lecture, we'll have a basic overview on this operating system, its menus, how to use 08:58.920 --> 09:03.660 it, how to interact with it, just so that we get more comfortable with using it.