In the previous section we learned how your Internet service provider or your network admin could block
you from access and tour.
We also learned that we can use TOR Bridges or plug local transports to bypass this and access detour
network.
You might also want to use TOR Bridges or plug cable transports.
Even if you're not being blocked from using tour if you just want to hide the fact that you are using
Tor because as I mentioned previously when you use Tor your Internet service provider or your network
admin or anyone who is intercepting connections they'll be able to know that you're using Tor they won't
see the Web sites that you're accessing but they will be able to know that you're using the term network.
Therefore if this is a problem if this is something that you want to hide then you might want to use
TOR Bridges or plug all transports now in the previous section I showed you how to do this.
If you're using the Tor browser but right now we're not using Twitter browser anymore we're using tables.
And like I said tables is configured to rout all traffic through the Tor network.
Not only browsing traffic.
Therefore if you want to use applicable transport or a bridge you need to configure the whole distribution
to route all traffic through this plug transport or through this bridge.
So in this lecture I'm not going to talk a lot about how bridges work and how they allow us to bypass
censorship and use Tor even if it's blocked.
I covered this in details previously so if you don't remember that please go back and revise that lecture.
What I will cover here though is how to configure Thales to use bridges or plug all transports.
So right now I have tails.
Beautiful right here.
And as you can see I am able to connect to the tower network so I already went to check the Tor Project
dot org and everything.
As you can see is working as expected.
We can also see here that The Onion icon does not have an X so it means that I'm properly connected
to the tower network and if I click on this to open the tower circuits you'll see you will get information
about the Tor circuits right here.
So everything is working as expected but if this did not work for you.
So if after loading tables and after connecting to a network you are still not able to connect to the
TOR network.
If you get an error if the onion here has an X then it is possible that your network administrator or
your Internet service provider is preventing you from accessing Tor or if you just want to hide the
fact that you're using Tor then we can configure Thales to use applicable transport or a bridge to do
this we'll first need to restart the distribution because we already booted and we need to actually
tell it that I want to use a plug all transport as soon as it starts so here at this welcome message
you want to click on the plus here under the additional settings and we want to click on the network
connection and I'm going to choose the second option in here configure a tower bridge or a local proxy.
I'm going to click on add and then I will start tells so give it its time to load up the operating system
and once it slows it'll show you this window right here which you can use to configure Thales to connect
to the third network using a bridge or a proxy.
Now if you notice here on the top right you can see there is an X beside the onion meaning that we're
still not connected to the TOR network.
And if I go ahead now and run my browser I won't even be able to access the internet so I'm offline
right now so I'm going to click on configure to configure the network settings and I'm going to check
this option in here tor is censored in my country and then I'm going to paste the bridges or the plug
all transports that I have in here.
Now I covered multiple methods on how you can get bridges and plug all transports use in emails or use
in different domains so I'm not going to cover that here if you don't remember how to get them.
Please go back and revise that lecture in the previous section.
Right now I actually have my plug up of transport that I want to use on a USB stick so I'm going to
connect that to Tales and this will also be a good example for you to see how you can interact with
the file system.
So I'm just gonna go to my home directory just to open the file browser and we can see my removable
this right here.
I'm going to click it and I have my bridges in here and this text file which is dirty.
As usual double click to open a normal text file it'll open in the default text editor.
I'm going to select everything and copy it and then I'm gonna go back to my configuration window and
paste it here so now we're done.
And all I have to do is click on Kinect 2 Kinect using this plug about transport.
Just a quick option that I want to highlight in here as well is the proxy option.
You can take this box if you want to use a proxy.
But right now all I want to do is just use this plug all transport which I already pasted.
So I'm just going to click on Kinect to use it and right now Thales is going to reconfigure my network
settings so that all traffic within this operating system gets routed through this bridge through this
plug all transport and then through the Tor network.
And as you can see right now it's telling me that Tor is ready.
And now we are connected to the Internet through this bridge and through this plug all transport again
you can see the x has disappeared here from the Onion.
Which means that I am connected.
And just to verify this I'm going to launch the Utah browser from applications and we're going to go
to check the Tor Project dot org and perfect as you can see it's telling us that we are using detour
network and our IP appears to be this IP right here.
So everything is configured properly and we have Internet access through the Tor network and through
this plug of all transport as I mentioned this can be very helpful if your internet service provider
or your admin is preventing you from accessing detour network or if you don't want anyone to know that
your access in detail or network if you want to hide the fact that you are using the Tor network.