Instructor: Welcome back.
Let's start off with Tor browser the browser
that we will use for anonymity.
Now, Tor browser is a browser that allows us to
have maximum anonymity and privacy.
It is also a browser used to access deep or dark web
which you most likely have heard
of since you joined this course.
Now we are not going to be touching
on a subject on visiting deep web or dark web.
You can take a look at the internet for that
however you will use to browser to do that
but right now we want to see how we can install it
and how exactly does it anonymize ourselves
while visiting different websites on the internet.
Well, before we even get to downloading it
in theory what it does is it changes our IP address
after a certain amount of time.
So as we already mentioned
in a theory video to the website that we visit, it'll appear
as if we are connecting from a different physical location.
Let me show you how that looks like.
Before we even get to opening Tor browser, let's first
of all install it, to install Tor browser.
We first of all want to perform pseudo apt update
to update our system and it'll ask us for the password.
This shouldn't take too long to finish.
It should update in just a second and right
after it is finished we're going to run the command to
install the Tor browser.
Okay, so our repository update has finished
and the command that we use to install the Tor browser is
this one pseudo apt get install To and then space
Tor browser launcher.
Now the first thing that we are installing is the to service
while the second thing is the browser itself.
If you press enter, this command will start installing
the Tor browser for you.
Now since I already have it installed, I am not
going to be running this however you just press enter
click why so that it installs everything
and in a few minutes this should be done and you should have
it installed as soon as this command finishes working.
In order to run the Tor browser, we type Tor browser
dash launcher.
This will start the To browser, but if you are running it
for the first time, it'll actually download the browser
itself first.
So just by running this command it'll open a small download
window which will take a few seconds or minute to finish
and as soon as that's done it should automatically
start the Tor browser for you.
As you can see, it started the ToR browser for me
and this is the window that you should get
once you accomplish all of these commands
and you fully download the Tor browser.
Now since this is quite a small screen
let me enlarge this and zoom this
in a little bit just so we can see everything better.
And this is the question that will pop up first
connect to Tor
and here it gives the explanation why tasks
for your permission to do this
Tor browser routes your traffic over the Tor network run
by thousands of volunteers around the world.
So this is essentially how it is hiding your traffic
When you try to visit a website
whether that being a website on deep web or not
it'll route your traffic through the to network.
Which should go through bunch
of different servers before reaching its endpoint
essentially making the endpoint not really
know where your connection is coming from.
We want to connect.
Now if you want to check this, that is completely up to you.
I'll just click on Connect
and it'll open this page for me and for you as well.
Let's also enlarge this.
We can see that the search engine is Duck, Duck Go.
Also a private search engine and how we can check
whether Tor project or Tor service is being run.
We can type in this link
in our search bar, so check.torproject.org, press enter
and this will check whether Tor is running on our machine.
Now you will notice that it takes some time
for pages to load and that is
because our traffic is getting routed
through multiple points before reaching the destination
and that is making it slow.
As we can see, this page says
Congratulations, this browser is configured to
use Tor, your IP address appears to be this one.
Now this, as you might have guessed
is not my real IP address.
This is the IP address that we got from Tor browser itself.
So this will appear to the endpoints that we are connecting
from this IP and we can check it by typing what is my IP.
Once again, it'll take some time to load
it'll not be as fast as regular browsers
and once it loads we want to visit any of these websites.
Let's go this one, what is my IP address?
And here it is.
It's currently this one and you will notice these IP address
change from time to time.
Let me just close this.
This will appear to be my IP before address
and probably in a few minutes this will also change.
Currently my physical location is in Nigeria.
The exact city is this one, and as you might have guessed
I am nowhere near this physical location
so Tor browser is doing good job
on masking where I'm coming from.
And just to mention one more time, this is the
information that the websites that you visit will also see.
Nonetheless, if you're interested, you can also take a look
at some other options that Tor browser has
by going to preferences, going to privacy and security
and you can check the options here to match your needs
and your privacy level.
For example, here we have the security level
and we have three options, standard, safer and safest.
Ideally, you want to have safer to be able to
browse the internet normally
and also to have some protection.
Safest will break some websites
since it disables JavaScript completely.
It also disables some fonts and bunch
of other things as well that might break some webpages.
All in all, this is pretty much the Tor browser
but we are not done with the Tor itself yet.
We're going to use the Tor service
in the next video to perform our Nmap scans through a proxy.
We want to see how we can use our tools that we covered
in the ethical hacking course
and make them more anonymous while performing their action.
We're going to take a look at the example of Nmap scan
which will be routed to a proxy with the help of Tor service
in order to mask where the scan is coming from
but more about that in the next video.
Before I finish this video off
I just want to mention one more thing
and that is that an alternative option
to the Tor browser would be a browser called Brave Browser.
Now you probably haven't heard of it
since it's not that known
but this is a really good browser.
Let me just type it in
so I can show you where you can download it from.
Brave Browser has really good security and privacy
and in its settings it has bunch
of different options that allow you to set the privacy level
to your own needs
and also to make you more anonymous on the internet.
So this is the page where you can download the Brave from
and this is just a recommendation if you want to use it.
Feel free to use it.
The choice is completely yours.
Nonetheless, let's get straight into next video
where we are going to take a look
at running and Nmap through a proxy.