In this video, we're going to take a look at a built in VPN on CSI Linux.
So I'm in my CSI Linux instance here.
And we can see this little green globe here.
If I mouse over it, it says CSI Tor VPN.
So what this does is it routes all our traffic through the Tor network.
Now the Tor network is.
Pretty, um, pretty cool system.
Essentially it takes.
Our internet traffic and routes it through a random exit node or onion router, and then it spits it
out.
So this makes it extraordinarily hard to track us because it's choosing a random exit node.
Now, it that doesn't mean it's impossible to track.
Track where you are if that exit node is compromised.
But that's a pretty rare case.
And uh, again, Tor is an extraordinarily, uh, secure, very powerful system to hide your internet
traffic.
Also, you're going to need the Tor network if you're going to browse the dark web, for example.
And if you don't want to go out and use a paid VPN, this is a really awesome solution that's actually
built in.
So let's take a look.
So if I click on the question mark here, I can see what's my IP.
Let's start up the Tor network first though.
So I'm going to click here.
We're going to type in our password CSI click okay.
And then we're going to choose our Ethernet adapter.
It's actually going to be the three right now.
If you're not sure you can click on that little question mark there.
We're going to do CSI Tor VPN on click okay.
And we can see it's resetting our network card.
And we can see the internet traffic here.
Now sometimes it gets a little funny where it has problems starting up.
And you may need to stop and start the service a couple of times to get it in order for it to work.
Once it's connected, we should see a speed there and the background will change.
Here we can see this new Tor um, uh, wallpaper here.
Now, if I click on the question mark here.
This will give us some information here.
Okay.
And, uh, just to let you know, if you are going through the Tor network, it tends to be extraordinarily
slow, but that's also giving you a lot of protection also.
So we can see here, uh, the country my exit node for the Tor network is in the Netherlands, uh region,
Limburg, uh city and so forth.
Uh, darknet Netherlands, uh, northern Holland.
So we can see that it.
I'm in United States in California.
So it it is working properly.
The exit node is in the Netherlands.
Netherlands.
So if I go to a website, I log into a forum, I, I do a test.
It's going to come up that I'm in the Netherlands so nowhere near my real location.
So again we're looking for something that hides our IP address, hides our ISP and hides our location.
So.
Tor network definitely is able to do that for us.
And again, it's extraordinarily secure.
It's a awesome system.
However, it internet traffic will be pretty slow typically, and you're probably going to have to go
through some captchas if you if you're using this.
So if I go to something like Google, typically it's going to ask you to solve a Captcha because all
that traffic is anonymized, your computer is anonymized, your internet traffic.
So since it doesn't know who you are.
It's going to make you go through this.
I am not a robot, and you're going to have to go through these different things.
Like for right now, I have to click on, um, click on the fire hydrants.
We'll click through that real quick just to show you.
Okay I'm going to click verify and I'm going to have to do it again.
So um it is an inconvenience.
But again we do get quite a bit of security out of this using this system.
So again it's another another tool that we could use.
Um, it's potentially, you know, a backup solution or a primary solution.
And again it's the little green icon down here, CSI, Tor VPN.
And if I want to turn this off I can click this.
I can type in the password CSI.
And then I click on that Ethernet adapter and I just click off okay.
You don't need to type the password again okay.
We can see it turning off here.
Let me close this stuff out here.
And once it closes, we can see the wallpaper change back again.
So again, pretty easy system.
Really cool.
I encourage you to check it out and test it out.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.