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Now that we have tails installed configured with persistence and we learned the basics on how to use

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it and interact with it.

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In this lecture I want to talk about detail browser that comes with tails and highlights a major restriction

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that tails enforces over the Tor web browser so go into the applications.

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You can see we have in our favorites detailed browser as you know we've actually covered this browser

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before.

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And we spoke about how it works and we learned how to install it on different operating systems and

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how to properly configure it for optimum security and anonymity.

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So what we have here is an identical version to the browser that I showed you before.

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You can go to check the Tor Project dot org to make sure that everything is connected but we already

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know that everything is working because as I mentioned before all connections sent from Tales from the

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whole operating system go through the Tor network and we can confirm this from this onion but if you

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really just want to double check you can just go to check the Tor Project dot org and as you can see

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it's telling us that everything is working everything's configured properly and we are using the network.

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Now as I showed you before you can go to the onion icon in here to request a new identity change security

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settings or check for updates.

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You can check your tor circuit from here and you can also modify the options from here.

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Now like I said I spent multiple lectures explaining what the circuit is what do we mean by a new identity

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and a new circuit how to modify the security options for optimum security and anonymity.

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So I'm not going to talk about that.

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Now you can go ahead and do everything that I showed you previously because the steps to do with here

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are identical to the steps you'd follow with any Tor Browser regardless of what operating system it's

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installed on.

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So I'm just gonna go and change my security settings and crack that to the safest.

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And we are good to go.

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I'm also going to keep the screen at this size because as I mentioned before you don't want to use the

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screen in full screen because that'll give information about your monitor.

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Also keeping it at the default site is always a good idea because that makes you less unique.

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And like I said Tor and tales work best by making it hard to distinguish the users that use these services.

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So when we keep the window at the default size it's harder to distinguish between me and other users.

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What I want to cover though in this lecture is an extra feature that tells implements or an extra restriction

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that tells applies to the TOR browser to improve the security of the whole browser so that it's more

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difficult to exploit and use to gain access to our system tools implement kernel level restrictions

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over the Tor browser so that it cannot access any folder any location within the file system except

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for one folder.

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Therefore if we wanted to download something from the browser or upload something we can only do that

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from one folder in our file system.

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So if we look at the places here you'll see we have a folder called Tor Browser and we have a folder

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called Tor Browser persistent because I enabled persistence on my installation.

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You will only see this if you enable persistence and as the names suggest the browser folder is non

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persistent.

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So anything you place in this folder will be deleted once you shut down or restart tales.

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The persistent folder is persistent.

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So if you store anything in that folder it will not be deleted when you restart or shut down tells now

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these two folders or directories are the only folders that detour browser has access to.

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So if for example you wanted to save this image so you're going to go right click and save image as

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I'm just giving this as an example.

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But this applies for anything that you want to save.

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You'll see you are automatically an amnesia which is the name of our user tor browser.

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So this is the path that we are in and if we wanted to change this path to save this somewhere else.

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For example if you click on desktop you'll see we're get an error message saying permission denied you'll

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get this error message.

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If you click on any other directory in your computer except the Tor Browser directories the third browser

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normal and deter browser persistent.

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So let's stop this for example Ed browser in here and it's just going to be called Tor on PDG.

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I'm going to save it.

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And now if I go to places Tor Browser you'll see we have the image here.

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So it's just like any other directory.

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The only thing is this is the only directory that is visible to the TOR browser.

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So the same thing applies if you wanted to upload a file and send it anywhere you want to be able to

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upload any files unless they are stored in tor browser or indeed your browser persistent.

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So if you had something on desktop or in music or in the documents you'll have to first copy it to one

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of these directories either too tor browser or Tor Browser persistent and then upload it from there.

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So if I just go to a tiny upload dot com this is a file sharing service.

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It's by no means anonymous or private.

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I'm just using it as an example to show you how the browser only have access to specific directories.

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So if I click on browse the select the file that I want to upload again you can see by default in detail

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the browser directory which I can upload files from with no problems.

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But if I try to go to my documents again I'll get the same error downloads or any other directory.

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I'll always be getting this error.

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Therefore if you want to upload something you'll have to copy it paste it in your browser or your tour

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browser persistent.

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If you have one if you enabled persistence and then from here you can just selected open it and it will

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upload just like any other operating system.

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Now like I said this is not a private or an anonymous way of uploading files.

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I will show you a better way later on in the course so that's it for this lecture.

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We've already used the term browser and we are already a little bit familiar with it.

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I just wanted to highlight the restriction that tells enforces on the Tor Browser and in the next lecture

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I'm going to introduce you to the insecure browser that comes with tales.