WEBVTT 00:00.690 --> 00:07.860 In the previous section, we learned how your Internet service provider or your network admin could 00:07.860 --> 00:09.960 block you from accessing TOR. 00:10.170 --> 00:18.030 We also learned that we can use Tor bridges or pluggable transports to bypass this and access the Tor 00:18.030 --> 00:18.810 network. 00:19.530 --> 00:25.890 You might also want to use Tor bridges or pluggable transports, even if you're not being blocked from 00:25.890 --> 00:26.730 using TOR. 00:26.760 --> 00:31.020 If you just want to hide the fact that you are using Tor. 00:31.050 --> 00:38.340 Because as I mentioned previously, when you use Tor your internet service provider or your network 00:38.340 --> 00:44.760 admin or anyone who is intercepting connections, they'll be able to know that you're using Tor. 00:44.790 --> 00:50.730 They won't see the websites that you're accessing, but they will be able to know that you're using 00:50.730 --> 00:51.810 the Tor network. 00:52.590 --> 00:57.450 Therefore, if this is a problem, if this is something that you want to hide, then you might want 00:57.450 --> 01:00.630 to use tor bridges or pluggable transports. 01:01.260 --> 01:07.590 Now, in the previous section I showed you how to do this if you're using the Tor browser, but right 01:07.590 --> 01:10.090 now we're not using the Tor browser anymore. 01:10.110 --> 01:11.430 We're using tails. 01:11.430 --> 01:18.330 And like I said, Tils is configured to route all traffic through the Tor network, not only browsing 01:18.330 --> 01:19.020 traffic. 01:19.110 --> 01:26.100 Therefore, if you want to use a pluggable transport or a bridge, you need to configure the whole distribution 01:26.100 --> 01:31.740 to route all traffic through this pluggable transport or through this bridge. 01:32.310 --> 01:38.190 So in this lecture, I'm not going to talk a lot about how bridges work and how they allow us to bypass 01:38.190 --> 01:40.890 censorship and use Tor even if it's blocked. 01:40.920 --> 01:46.530 I covered this in details previously, so if you don't remember that, please go back and revise that 01:46.530 --> 01:47.250 lecture. 01:47.370 --> 01:54.660 What I will cover here, though, is how to configure tables to use bridges or pluggable transports. 01:55.350 --> 01:58.950 So right now I have tables booted up right here. 01:59.460 --> 02:02.970 And as you can see, I am able to connect to the Tor network. 02:02.970 --> 02:10.250 So I already went to check the Tor project dot org and everything as you can see, is working as expected. 02:10.260 --> 02:17.790 We can also see here the onion icon does not have an X, so it means that I'm properly connected to 02:17.790 --> 02:18.900 the Tor network. 02:18.900 --> 02:23.610 And if I click on this to open the Tor circuits, you'll see. 02:23.640 --> 02:26.970 We'll get information about the Tor circuits right here. 02:27.270 --> 02:30.060 So everything is working as expected. 02:30.480 --> 02:37.740 But if this did not work for you, so if after loading tables and after connecting to a network, you're 02:37.740 --> 02:40.350 still not able to connect to the Tor network. 02:40.350 --> 02:47.220 If you get an error, if the Onion here has an X, then it is possible that your network administrator 02:47.220 --> 02:53.460 or your internet service provider is preventing you from accessing TOR, or if you just want to hide 02:53.460 --> 03:00.330 the fact that you're using Tor, then we can configure tables to use a pluggable transport or a bridge. 03:01.320 --> 03:07.980 To do this, we'll first need to restart the distribution because we already booted and we need to actually 03:07.980 --> 03:12.990 tell it that I want to use a pluggable transport as soon as it starts. 03:14.570 --> 03:21.020 So here at this welcome message, you want to click on the plus here under the additional settings. 03:22.560 --> 03:29.070 And we want to click on the Network Connection, and I'm going to choose the second option in here. 03:29.070 --> 03:32.250 Configure a third bridge or a local proxy. 03:33.270 --> 03:37.800 I'm going to click on ADD and then I will start tells. 03:39.480 --> 03:46.440 So give it its time to load up the operating system and once it loads it will show you this window right 03:46.440 --> 03:54.270 here which you can use to configure Thales to connect to the Tor network using a bridge or a proxy. 03:54.990 --> 04:00.480 Now, if you notice here on the top right, you can see there is an X beside the onion, meaning that 04:00.480 --> 04:02.940 we're still not connected to the Tor network. 04:02.940 --> 04:08.430 And if I go ahead now and run my browser, I won't even be able to access the Internet. 04:08.430 --> 04:10.440 So I'm offline right now. 04:11.350 --> 04:13.540 So I'm going to click on Configure. 04:14.430 --> 04:19.140 To configure the network settings and I'm going to check this option in here. 04:19.150 --> 04:26.850 Tor is censored in my country and then I'm going to paste the bridges or the pluggable transports that 04:26.850 --> 04:28.110 I have in here. 04:28.890 --> 04:29.310 Now. 04:29.310 --> 04:35.700 I covered multiple methods on how you can get bridges and pluggable transports using emails or using 04:35.700 --> 04:36.960 different domains. 04:36.960 --> 04:38.820 So I'm not going to cover that here. 04:38.820 --> 04:44.790 If you don't remember how to get them, please go back and revise that lecture in the previous section. 04:44.910 --> 04:51.450 Right now I actually have my pluggable transport that I want to use on a USB stick, so I'm going to 04:51.450 --> 04:53.220 connect that to details. 04:53.220 --> 04:58.590 And this will also be good example for you to see how you can interact with the file system. 04:59.310 --> 05:06.150 So I'm just going to go to my home directory just to open the file browser and we can see my removable 05:06.150 --> 05:07.380 disk right here. 05:07.440 --> 05:08.820 I'm going to click it. 05:10.170 --> 05:16.980 And I have my bridges in here in this text file, which is the text as usual, double click to open 05:16.980 --> 05:18.390 a normal text file. 05:18.510 --> 05:21.000 It will open in the default text editor. 05:21.000 --> 05:27.840 I'm going to select everything and copy it, and then I'm going to go back to my configuration window 05:27.840 --> 05:29.130 and paste it here. 05:30.030 --> 05:31.110 So now we're done. 05:31.110 --> 05:36.150 And all I have to do is click on Kinect to Kinect using this pluggable transport. 05:36.630 --> 05:41.770 Just a quick option that I want to highlight in here as well is the proxy option. 05:41.790 --> 05:48.510 You can tick this box if you want to use a proxy, but right now all I want to do is just use this pluggable 05:48.510 --> 05:50.550 transport which I already pasted. 05:50.550 --> 05:53.490 So I'm just going to click on Kinect to use it. 05:54.530 --> 06:01.520 And right now Tails is going to reconfigure my network settings so that all traffic within this operating 06:01.520 --> 06:07.400 system gets routed through this bridge, through this pluggable transport, and then through the Tor 06:07.400 --> 06:08.180 network. 06:08.990 --> 06:14.960 And as you can see right now, it's telling me that Tor is ready and now we are connected to the Internet 06:14.960 --> 06:18.050 through this bridge and through this pluggable transport. 06:18.170 --> 06:23.510 Again, you can see the X has disappeared here from the onion, which means that I am connected. 06:23.630 --> 06:28.520 And just to verify this, I'm going to launch the Tor browser from applications. 06:29.990 --> 06:31.820 And we're going to go to check. 06:32.630 --> 06:34.790 The third project dot org. 06:36.310 --> 06:37.120 And perfect. 06:37.120 --> 06:43.780 As you can see, it's telling us that we are using the Tor network and our IP appears to be this IP 06:43.780 --> 06:44.590 right here. 06:44.590 --> 06:51.160 So everything is configured properly and we have internet access through the Tor network and through 06:51.160 --> 06:52.840 this pluggable transport. 06:53.620 --> 07:00.550 As I mentioned, this can be very helpful if your internet service provider or your admin is preventing 07:00.550 --> 07:02.770 you from accessing the Tor network. 07:02.830 --> 07:08.980 Or if you don't want anyone to know that you're accessing the Tor network, if you want to hide the 07:08.980 --> 07:11.770 fact that you are using the Tor network.