OK so now that we have the account set up let us go and see how we can log in to this account and communicate
with friends use in pigeon as the Instant Messenger.
So I'm gonna go to a new desktop now.
Pigeon comes pre installed and tells.
So this is great.
And this is one of the reasons that I chose to cover it.
And one of the reasons why it's so popular because you don't need to install it.
And as we know tells is live.
So it's always great when you can just use the built in applications.
So we're gonna go to applications and you can find pigeon in here and the favorites as you can see in
here or we can find it under Internet and we have it right here.
Now we're gonna launch this and as you can see as soon as you started it will have to default accounts.
Now we're not going to be using these accounts.
We want to use our own account which we just created.
So I'm going to click on add and I'm going to choose that this account is going to be an ex MPP account
I'm going to put the user name.
And as you remember user names that we picked was G H N W.
And the domain that we set this on was this domain right here.
This mail dot the E so I'm going to copied and pasted here.
I'm gonna put the password which is the same password that I chose when I signed up.
I'm going to click on add now.
Perfect.
Now I'm actually logged in as you can see here at the bottom.
The circle is green.
And it says available.
This is my status.
So if anybody has added me to their friends list or buddy list they will see me as available and using
this we can set it to away.
Do not disturb or offline if we want to go offline.
Now this is fine.
Let's go ahead and add a friend.
So I'm going to go to buddies.
I'm going to click on Add buddy to add another friend.
So the first thing it's asking us which account I want to add this friend to this is our account that
we're using right now so I'm going to keep this the same if you had multiple accounts.
You can click this and select the other account that you want to add your friend to next.
It's asking us for the body's user name the user name of the friend that I want to add.
And I've already set up another account on a different ex MPP server just to show you that you can communicate
with any ex MPP server with any account and the other account that I set up is G H and WC key to it
jabber dot system ally dot org.
So as you can see this is a completely different server but we should be able to communicate with it.
I'm going to added And if we go to the other account which is this one right here.
So this is another tells machine that I'm already logged in to the account that I just added to John
Wick to a jabber at DOT system ally dot org.
And as you can see he got a friend request from my other email which is John week at this mail dot the
E.
So I can authorize or deny this and I'm going to authorize it.
I'm going to allow him to add me and I'm going to add him as a friend as well.
So if we go back here we can see we have John Wick as a friend and we can see there is a green circle
beside it.
So he's on line and the five double click this let's close this we will get an instant messaging screen
again very similar to what you get in other applications and other instant messengers and you can start
sending messages.
So let's say hey let's see if we receive it here as you can see we got a message here in a new tab from
John week at this mail that the E.
He said hey let's say hello back.
Just a test going back here as you can see we got the message back.
Now before we wrap this up I want to highlight one more thing.
So right now when we send something through X MPP we are connecting to the third network because as
we know Thales route everything through the Tor network then whatever we're sent in is exiting the Tor
network to the X MPP server because the X MPP server is on the clear net and then it's relayed to the
destination.
Now all of the servers that I showed you offer a hidden service X MPP server.
So what happens in that case is we connect to the TOR network and whatever message we sent directly
goes to an X MPP server that is running as a hidden service.
Therefore it never leaves data or network making full use of the privacy and anonymity that the Tor
network offers now to do this.
We need to slightly modify the way we configured pigeon.
So let us go back to Tales and I'm going to go up to the list of the servers and I'm going to look for
the server that I used which is this one right here.
The smell that the E and as you can see we have the link for its hidden service right here.
I'm going to copy this.
I'm going to go down to pigeon.
I'm going to sign out of my current account.
I'm going to go to offline and we're going to go to accounts.
We're going to manage my accounts and this is the account that we want to modify its server so that
we connect to the hidden service instead of directly connecting to the clear net server.
We're going to click on modify to modify its settings and keep in mind we're keeping the basic exactly
the way it is we're still using the same user name and the same clear net domain because this is our
address.
But what we want to modify is in the advanced tab which is the Kinect server.
So you want to set the server to the hidden service that you want to use as the MPP server to Kinect
and that's it.
We're going to click on Save and we're good to go.
I'm going to close this and I'm going to change my status to available again it's going to ask you for
the password.
We're going to put it on perfect to her back online.
I can see my body right here.
And let's send him another text message and go to his account and perfect as you can see we got the
message from him right here.
So as you can see very simple very intuitive very similar to any other messaging app that you can use.
The great thing about this is like I said it's decentralized so anyone can start their own server.
There is no one company that controls how this works.
Pigeon comes reinstalled and tells therefore you don't need to install any third party programs and
as we know tells us amnesiac and live and secure enough therefore you're benefiting from all of these
features.
The only problem right now is as you can see here it seems the connection is not private.
So the communication right now between us two is not private.
Now TLC is used to there is a layer of encryption but it's not end to end encryption.
And ideally we want to use end to end encryption.
So the message gets encrypted at my end and it never gets decrypted until it reaches the destination.
So even the server owner or anybody that intercepts this message would not be able to read it because
it will be encrypted throughout the whole way so at the next lecture I'm going to show you how to configure
pigeon to use end to end encryption.