 So I've been running parrot sec OS for several months on my laptop I really like the distribution as my so-to-speak daily driver daily usage I'm not a big distro hopper So I don't you know as you may have this in Linux world someone who changes distributions often not really my thing I usually stick with one for a while I still run pop OS on my desktop because that question comes up a lot Works great for my editing my workflow no problems and for my laptop I like having all the tools when I go somewhere at my fingertip to you know enumerated network Do some diagnostics and have a lot of tools for Everything network related or even pen testing or network enumeration related running right on my hardware with this laptop And I can still use it as my so-to-speak Daily driver for doing things like VPNing back to my office to do any other work that I need to do on my own network Now I want to talk today about parrot and using the anonser function this is really cool because it's a quick way to wrap the computer in tour and It's really easy. It's convenient and solve some of the security problems people have when they're using tour Which is they may launch a browser that's a tour browser, but then they may also Not remember and open a link that's an on tour browser that was sent and that's one of the ways They kind of find people on tour So if you want to make sure everything's wrapped in there instead of just launching a tour browser You wrap the laptop in tour there's ways to do this for proxies There's ways to do this in other distributions. They've just automated the whole process and done it very clean in parrot sec Now before I jump to it if you do me a favor, I know it's cheesy hit the like button it in our algorithm driven life That algorithm does help to let other people know they should probably enjoy this video as well All right, thanks. I'll stop being whatever cheesy or everyone would call that back to the video so there are different ways you can do the Anonser we'll go over here and One you can launch it from the command line I prefer that method is like things from the command line, but it's also an answer start stop change action node check IP Set on set the open-nick DNS service So we'll just go ahead and sue you an answer start now right now actually before even go that far I do have this connected to pia VPN I do have an offer link below if you're interested in signing up. I do like pia They work great with Linux not a problem You don't need to load their software You can just get the OVPN files that they allow you to download and didn't put your username password in and connect So I have my office VPN. I have pia Sweden South Africa sitting in here, and then I can load more for the command line So I'm going from VPN already. So some level of anonymity there We'll open up Firefox real quick There's the start page. There's my Sweden IP address there If we go to I have config.co It shows me in Sweden. So yep, I'm all connected cool. It's working. So let's go back over and Start the an answer now what this does Are you sure you want to start it? Do you want to answer to kill dangerous applications and clean the caches? I would love for it to do that Not sure it's going to go ahead and clear out your DNS cache It's going to clear out the resolver resolving caches essentially It's going to close open browser windows and things using the internet because well if you spun up tour and you have these connections You're like, oh, I know who you are You're on the tour. No, you were already get you a cookie assigned over here and you were signed in with this IP addressing You just suddenly moved to another IP address That is a way that you can quickly identify Through indication like hey same person just moved IP addresses, but all the sessions didn't change It offers to close everything for you, which is really nice. So it just closed all the browser sessions You are now under a non-surf tunnel And a couple options here so I can start stop restart change ID Status and see if it's working properly So yep, there's all the details So easy enough to do let's make sure we're on the internet Just ping anything. Hey cool. We're paying in stuff. So I know I'm on the internet And let's see where we popped out on the tour node So my VPN already put me in Sweden So we got one for from the Swedish VPN. Let's refresh the page now To the tour node and out some other exit node And it may be is it blocked. Oh All right, DE Germany. So yes, we moved over there. So now we've gone to Through the tour node out there now what I said is it wraps everything in a tour node Let me give you an example here If we open links LYNX, it's a command line browser So even things launched from the command line are going to be wrapped in a tour node So any of the command line tools are on there. So it sees a different IP address So right away it goes. Hey, your connections from 162 213 also not my public IP Once again, it's going through the tour system and out somewhere else So you're remaining that an anonymity while launching things from the command line as well I've done videos on how to do this with proxy change But you know one of those things is when you wrap the whole computer in it any tool I use whether I SSH somewhere or wherever It's all gonna be always wrapped in a tour no exit wrap the whole computer in there But what if I want to come out somewhere else because well people blocked tour nodes, which is not a horrible idea because of the enemy level the offer, but it's also a game of Wack-a-mole if you haven't heard of that it's constantly changing It is always a new tour node probably more opening up from the time I started this video to the time I end it. I don't know what the statistics are, but I do know there's always more tour nodes popping up So that's where the change ID option comes in. So we're gonna go ahead and make this full screen Just a lot of options. It'll pop up when I do this change ID What country would I like to come from? Oh? Let's do everyone's favorite Country code are you so it takes a second here Do do do all right identity change. Let's dance again Let's refresh the page here And we now are in are you so absolutely Simple as that you can swap out to be somewhere else and search the country codes and if you put nothing in on the change ID It drops a list of ideas So we have the Congo. We have Canada Cape Verde So you can make yourself appear to be coming from a lot of different options on here And it does the searching for you to make this really easy every time it does it now tour doesn't let you get Granular and that's kind of the nature of tour. Maybe I'll do a more deep dive video at some point It's a really very interesting system. Yes, it was government funded for those of you that are hammering It's a government funded scam. There's a lot more to it than that. Yes It originally did receive government seed money But think about it this way if the government always attacked or Probe the internet from the same location and no one else did You kind of need your own noise and having other people on there I could go on about this. But yes, tour is very difficult to de-anonymize not impossible for nation-state level actors This is why when people go into tour they frequently VPN then tour and then pick different exit nodes and Read through any of the case history follow darkneck diaries. There's ways they find people But it's not exactly through tour the way you think it is So I'll I'll leave you with that I can always leave links to darkneck diaries Actually, just go through all of darkneck diaries if you're into hacking or into Understanding how that works. Anyways back on topic. It's really easy to say coming out in other countries So we'll say Denmark now wait a few seconds here Identity change. Let's dance again. It doesn't take long at all refresh the page Come on. Did we not get a new one? Huh, oh, I wonder if it's let's try IP chicken Who's it wonder if it's just holding on to the cashed? Yep, it is. That's Thanks Firefox for caching app, but I don't want the same address returned and you can say a it's Toro one dot No, that's cool I don't know what their website is because apparently they were on site security But I mean now it infant definitely in DK. So is it Zen purity? I think is how I would say that One thing about tour Yeah, cool. They offered pen test services and run a tour. No, thank you Folks over at Zankirty APS But this is one thing about tour is no you don't use this for Downloading torrents despite the names having similarities are not the same thing. That's a misconception Also, it's going to be slower your speed test. Everything is going to much slower on tour Due to the way tour works and due to the great level of anonymity you can get with tour There are some trade-offs one of them is definitely speed the way it bounces through the nodes to Lose your identity from where you went in to where you came out of that is going to cause a substantial slowdown Mostly, this is going to be used for if you're doing like external Scans on clients at their request. This is not something when you don't want to request it You want to do this to be able to come in from different angles and see what their attack surface looks like Tourer makes it really handy combine that with all the tools I have on here and being able to quickly swap to different tour nodes because This is how you would easily evade like a pattern recognition system So they don't see you coming from the same address even if it is a tour note all the time Because it would get blocked. So when you're doing your probes or doing your Assessments for a client for external vulnerabilities. This is just conveniently built in this is actually why Xavier likes this as well Because that's a lot of what he does in his day job But but that's it for the application it works that simple I like the way that it just quickly can change back and forth to a non-surf and we'll go back to the real world Just by stopping it So an answer of stop say yes We go through the process again of clearing out all the cash all the things I did on tour And I'll get wiped out cleaned out and the browsers got closed and restarted and the whole time if you didn't notice up here at the top I She was open the main browser and show you so as it's done global anonymous proxy closed stop dancing So go here Start Firefox And you notice still right at the top here my PA VPN is still there So it still uses the PA VPN to go out with tour So it's still going there and when it changes and cleans it all back out. I'm still on PA VPN So if I go to I don't think it's blocked on PIA. Hey, cool. Now. We're back in Sweden and we can just do this slash country Sweden and the last thing I'll do is VPN connection Turn it off So I'm back in it's gonna take a second to load It's cashing it. There we go United States. So that's it from Sweden to tour to back to Sweden back to the United States. They make it really simple and parrot It's not the complex or convoluted process I've done with some of the other ones and you don't need to even use proxy chains Like I've talked about before which a lot of people in proxy changes So a great tool, but you can use it for other things as well But a lot of people would use proxy change so they can wrap each thing in tour This is nice wrapping the whole computer in it and with a few clicks of a button and then unwrapping it with another click So that was it a check out parrot. They do have that new website parrots.sh Where you can download it? Yeah, give it a try. I really like parrot OS. 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