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so you have finally installed tor.

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whether you're using linux or windows or an ios or android device, tor has several things to consider when 1st launching it.

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so let's go ahead and launch tor and we'll see some of the settings that we can configure right off the bat.

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one of the 1st things we see when launching tor is if we want to connect to tor.

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we could simply click this purple button here and connect, or we can configure the connection.

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we can also set it to always connect automatically, which you might want to do.

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generally, this will be the option you use.

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most people will only use this, but the configure connection gives you some deeper information about what to connect with.

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so we can see here we're connected to the internet.

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we can test that, or we can see if we're connected to the tor network.

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of course, we're not connected yet.

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this is where we can actually configure bridges, which we've not discussed bridges just yet.

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but it tells you right here what bridges are, right?

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they help you securely access the tor network in places where tor is blocked.

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so this is important for people who might have issues connecting to tor.

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beyond that, this is also a good way to potentially hide the fact that you're using tor to your isp or your vpn provider.

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this will hide that fact because bridges are essentially tor nodes that aren't publicly shown on the tor node list.

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and we'll talk more about bridges, their purpose, how to configure them a little bit later.

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but you could just request a bridge if you had the information, or you can just select a built- in bridge.

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and we'll talk about these different types and how they work a little bit later.

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there's some more advanced settings here we can get into if you're using a proxy or if you have a specific firewall where you need to connect through only specific ports outbound, and then you can view some logs around, tour the connection and all of that sort of stuff.

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but as we talked about earlier, we'll just go ahead and connect normally.

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and once it's connected, it will load this page.

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this is like the default browsing page for tor and you can search with duckduckgo.

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and if you want to test that it's working correctly, i suggest maybe trying something like onionlinkhub dot com.

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that's our website for onion link sharing where you can actually connect and see different onion links.

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and right now, this is obviously not the darknet website, the dark web service, right?

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you want to click on this.

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so if you click on that, it will open a new tab and this will actually connect you to our onion service.

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and now you can see that we are on a dot onion and you are there and we can now just explore some links through here.

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this is where we could get involved and start accessing stuff.

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so obviously this link is fake.

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some of the links say offline.

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we're still, this is still in beta.

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so some of the things aren't working correctly, but by the time you're watching this video, some of these should be ironed out, but you can actually see some other stuff.

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so through here, we can go to the cia's website if we really wanted to and just notice the load times on everything.

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that's pretty standard with tor, but you can see we are on the cia's.

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onion site.

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there's a few major buttons to be aware of when accessing tor 1st.

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there's this one.

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this shows your actual circuit path.

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so as we talked about earlier, right, the three node minimum, that's our 1st node is in germany.

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our 2nd is in the us and our 3rd one's in germany.

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you can see where the speed issues come into play because we're jumping across the world multiple times, right?

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we're going to germany, which this pc is based in the us.

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so i'm going from the us to germany back to the us to germany again, and then to the cia website, which i'm guessing is hosted in the united states.

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so that hopping back and forth is what really causes that delay.

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but let's say we wanted to create a new circuit.

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we just want to change our identity.

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you can just select new tor circuit.

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and the entry node didn't change in this example, but the 2nd and 3rd node did.

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and we can do this again and again.

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and this essentially just rotates your connection, which helps that anonymity and security.

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there's some information.

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this is normal site information around the certificate and your connection.

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and then there is reset your identity, which essentially wipes everything, closes all your sessions and then restarts the tor browser.

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we're not going to do that quite yet.

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and then we have our security level and we'll talk a little bit more about this in the next video, but we can read through what these mean and all of that a little bit later, but that's it for now.

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if you have any questions, let me know.

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otherwise, we'll see you in the next one.