So the term browser is a modified version of Yes our Firefox.
It is configured to rout all traffic through the Tor network.
Therefore it improves our privacy and anonymity and because it writes all traffic through the Tor network
using it we can access Tor hidden services or what's commonly known as DarkNet websites.
Now the riser itself is usually patched from all the known vulnerabilities to make sure that it is as
secure as possible.
It also comes with a number of plugins disabled to make it more secure and more private.
And it also has a number of extra plugins to improve the privacy and anonymity of the user such as hasty
tepees everywhere.
Which forces hasty TPA traffic through all websites fixed in the exit node problem that I spoke about
earlier and it comes with no javascript which prevents javascript from running on Web sites because
JavaScript can be used to D anonymize you.
So all in all it's a pretty nice package.
Like I said we will still be using it in the future in the other operating systems and you can just
install it on any operating system that you want and if you do that you'll still get some basic protection.
It'll improve your privacy and anonymity and you'll also be able to access the darknet or on own hidden
services.
So let's go ahead and see how we can first download Tor and then we'll discuss how we'll install it
on Windows OS X and Linux right here.
I have the download page of Tor I will include the link for this page in the resources and as you can
see you can download tour for Windows for OS X and for Linux.
Now if you load this page and it doesn't work for you then your network or your Internet service provider
might be blocking this page.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to include another link which is the link of the Tour's project repository
where you can download Tor as well and as you can see we have links for Windows OS X and Linux.
It's highly unlikely that this will be blocked because this is part of GitHub which is a huge platform
that contains programs for all sorts of things.
So it's highly unlikely that this is blocked.
But if this is blocked if you try to load this page and it still didn't work then you can use any of
the methods listed in here to get Tor so you can send an email to get or Tor Project dot org and just
tell them the operating system of your computer so you can type windows to get Windows OS X to get an
OS X version or Linux together Linux version and they will send you a download link as a response
you can also use X MPP or Twitter in a similar fashion to get Tor.
Obviously you only need to do this if the Tor website and their gate report right here are blocked.
So first try these things.
If that didn't work then you can try this method.
This is actually very very simple.
I have an example right here that I've just tested so all I did is I sent an email and I literally just
said Windows e and to get the English version to get Tor Tor Project dot org and few minutes after that
I got it in my inbox right here with 2 download links for the latest version of Tor so once you download
the relevant version to your operating system you can just double click it and go ahead with the installation
process.
But I want to show you how to verify the download first to make sure that the file has not been modified
before you received it.
So right now just go ahead and download Tor for your operating system.
Do not run it and in the next lectures I'm going to show you how to install it for Windows OS X and
Linux.
So the next lecture will be for Windows the lecture after that is going to be for OS X and the third
lecture after this is going to be for Linux.
Feel free to skip any of these lectures just go to the lecture that'll cover your operating system.
You won't lose any information if you skip any of these lectures.