Hello everyone and welcome to this section and this section we're basically going to be looking at Tor
and some of its security features and just going over the interface so you could have installed door
on Windows or you could be using it on cubes or you could be using it or tails or Finally you could
be using it on any Linux distro of your choice.
I'm going to be using a boon too.
And basically if you already extracted the package as we did in the previous section of this course
you should have already started Tor.
And here we are Tori is actually opened.
And I know that it's connected to the Tor network.
Now let's actually get started.
So your browser has a lot of security features that probably a lot of people overlook but let's actually
get into them.
So if you maximize the browser it's going to tell you that the browser can allow web sites to determine
your monitor size which can be used to track you.
So we recommend that you leave your browser windows in the original default size.
Well that's actually a precaution that actually makes sense because obviously if you visit a Web site
it has to basically form the Web site to your the the device that you're using the resolution of the
device that you're using which you see very commonly Nowadays if you visit the Web site on your mobile
device it will basically contort to the resolution of the mobile device.
So basically one of the first precautions that you take is basically making sure that you don't maximize
your browser's resolution.
And it just makes it a whole lot easier for them to understand what device you're using.
And from there they can basically begin targeting you.
And all of that really it's all got to do with security and anonymity.
Now most of you have already noticed that this really isn't a very normal rosiness you can see it it's
if you go to this little onion icon here it's going to say Tor is enabled Now when you click on it it's
going to say new identity new circuit for this site and it's going to say security settings on the network
settings.
Now we basically want to hit a new identity.
Right.
And what if reate new identity is basically going to start a new door window.
Now we can either do that or we can start from you.
I'm going to hit.
No no.
Let's try and visit a Web site like Google dot com right.
And let's see what what it pops up.
I already know that it's connected to the network or we.
All we have to see is what it basically like.
So according to what it's got from the top network the IP that it's using is a Dutch IP from the Netherlands
and therefore it's changed it to all the Dutch.
So in reality I don't live in the Netherlands so I can vouch that it's working.
And if you click on the onion right now it's basically going to show you the door circuit that's being
used.
So it's going to say this browser.
And as we learned in the first section how nodes work in the Tor connection is going to go to the first
node the first node is going to basically select the second node and then is going to select the third
node and then finally it's going to connect to the Internet.
So it's basically showing you the chain of node connections that your browser is taking to finally access
the Internet which is why you'll find that sometimes that the connection is slightly slow.
Again you can create a new identity and what that means is that it's going to give you a new IP address.
All right.
So we basically know that it it's using the Dutch IP address.
Let's try a web site like oops sorry think I close the window.
Let's open dog rose again.
And and let's just connect it to the talk circuit.
Sorry about that.
I think I close the window.
So actually probably has created a new identity for us so let's open you to dot com and let's see what
it gives us.
So in theory I don't know what IP address it's given me now but let's see what he'd given us.
So basically it's still using the I think the Dutch IP address and possibly it's going to continue using
that for right now.
Anyway what I was getting to was basically how how it's it's basically structured structured the web
page and how you can customize the activity on the page.
So as osing you can get into security settings.
And right now the security settings are set too low.
That means it's basically going to work like a normal browser and it's not going to restrict anything
really.
Let me just minimize this.
I'd know if I hit medium or at this level the following changes apply or it is.
Javascript is disabled by default on none.
HTP site.
So YouTube is HEG a site so that means it's still going to be enabled.
Huge demand for video and audio media become click to play no scripts so they not to play any videos.
So basically on sites where javascript is enabled performance optimizations are disabled.
So basically when it's a medium it's going to restrict a bit of scripts running on the website.
For example if I click one of these videos right here a lot of live stuff is playing.
Let me just click a video that might not be too controversial in terms of content.
Let's just go to trending and let's see what the differences are in terms of how it's played.
So let's let's try this video right here.
And as you can see it will still play the video and still play the video quite well and nothing really
has changed.
So if we go back into the security settings and we set it too high let's hit OK and not now let's refuse
that and let's reload the web page and let's see what it gives us now.
So it's nothing really has changed in terms of the interface.
Everything is still smooth.
So let's try and open the video right now.
And as you can see this little icon has turned into a no script sign.
And most probably it's not going to play the video.
And as you can see it's not going to play the video at all.
It's not giving us any thumbnails so let's go back to the home screen and let me explain what the high
security level actually means.
So this security level the following changes apply most of the for details.
So basically it's not going to give you any preview of the content like for example click here.
You can basically see that doesn't on sites where javascript is enabled performance of machine disabled
so in reality the a lot of the scripts are disabled.
So let's hit OK.
And now if you look over here it's going to say this is basically a script area and it's going to ask
you to.
It has this area for blocked script and it's going to as you can see is it's it's temporarily allowed
the phone to work.
What is it to disable other scripts as well.
Now you can temporarily allow the scripts on this page if you're if you annoyer on the Web site that
you can trust.
However it's it's always great it's to it's actually it's going to advise you that allowing the scripts
globally or universally across the browser is very dangerous.
And that's because some websites may use javascript and you know javascript uses your computer to perform
advanced tasks and Web sites like calculations and those can be really dangerous especially when harvesting
information from your browser and your computer.
That's basically the security features of your Tor network settings.
All right.
So these are very simple and it's basically the first settings that you get when installing the browser.
You can basically check that whether or not your internet service provider blocks connections to the
Tor network.
In countries where that may be restricted whether you have a proxy or you're going through a firewall.
So that's really up to you.
Coming back to let let me just go back to YouTube.
Sorry about that.
Coming back to the new top if you focus on the circuit for this site as I said it's going to show you
a visual representation according to the chain of nodes being used.
Now if you go into the security settings and if we were to basically say medium and or low What would
be really dangerous if is if I went to if I used a search engine by the way the Tor browser automatically
uses the duct up do the duck duck go search engine which is an anonymous search engine.
So basically as we go into the default search engine is Doctor go.
So let me do a search for the hidden key which is basically a wiki that contains a collection of a few
onion sites so generally speaking the first thing you realize is that the deep web or the dock with
net we're actually not browsing the dark net is relatively slow because it's going through a certain
amount of proxies.
So the hidden wiki as it's said it's going to be using the doctor Google search engine the doctor Google
search engine is I think the best search engine because it's anonymous and does not track any of your
search queries.
So let's open the hidden wiki and let's try and actually visit a deep Web site right now or a dark net
site.
So basically this is just a collection of dot Anniyan Web sites which is the real format for the Deep
Web.
For most of you don't know.
It does not end in dot com or dot org dot dot net.
Really in terms of the deep web of the dot net all web sites end in a dot Anniyan format.
So if I was to just find a web site on the hidden wiki you can try this for yourself.
Most of the Web sites will not work but if you can't find one that works it would be a good starting
point for you to understand how this works.
So obviously you're going to try and click on a link that may not be.
That may be working.
For example this market this market Web site that may be dealing in firearms you have a lot of legal
or illegal content right here which again I as I mentioned in my disclaimer I'm not going to be responsible
for if you get involved into this.
But anyway let me try and find links that are working.
As I said one of the the most common problems you'll be in countering on the DPP is the fact that links
don't actually work and some of them will be dead.
So the real challenge or adventure is finding links that are working.
So let's actually try and find a web site that working so that we can again basically show you where
it works before we end this video
no psych wants to work today.
Let's try the Twitter clone
excuse me none of those sites won't work.
Let's try hacking site right here.
It also contains a few torrent Web sites which by the way another tip is I would not recommend you to
basically torrent over the deep web because that will basically just give out your location.
I will get to in.
I will get to in advanced anonymity settings and configuring basically giving you full anonymity where
you cannot be traced back to you.
But that's coming in the future videos.
So we've actually got our first deeper Web site.
And as you can see this is an e-book Web site called the Imperial Library and it's saying there are
a thousand one hundred three thousand four hundred and forty eight books on the library so you can basically
just check this out.
And let's check out science fiction for example.
You have Star Trek.
You can download it or read it again.
This may be illegal and I don't encourage you to do that.
But at the end of the day you can use.
You can use this information to do whatever you want.
So that's basically it for this video guys thank you so much for.
If you have any questions just let me know in the Q&A section of course.