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Routing traffic over the Tor network

Routing traffic over the Tor network - Tor Browser Tutorial

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Routing traffic over the Tor network

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- [Instructor] Once you've installed the Tor browser, you're ready to begin routing traffic anonymously over the Tor network. I'm back in my Windows desktop, and I can see the Tor icon sitting here waiting for me. I'm going to go ahead and start the Tor browser. And then the first thing I see is a screen prompting me to connect to the Tor network, and offering me two choices. I can either click Connect here to just build a normal Tor circuit, or I can use the Configure button to specify some details about my network. For example, if I'd like to use an unadvertised bridge node, I could use the configure option here to go ahead and configure that bridge node in my Tor browser. I'm just going to go ahead and create a normal Tor circuit. And what Tor is doing now, is going and reaching out to the directory servers and getting information about the status of the Tor network. It's going to go ahead and then retrieve the list of available relay nodes, and then choose a path through the Tor…

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