We've seen so far how great Cube's is at improving our security.
It improves our security through the different security domains by isolating them inside individual
virtual machines that use their own resources.
We saw how cool the disposable and the vote virtual machines are and more.
All of these features make a really secure operating system and they also improve our user experience
and force the users to use their operating system in a more secure manner.
So that's the security part covered.
But we still haven't covered how to become anonymous and how to improve our privacy while surfing the
Internet using cubes.
Because all of the virtual machines that we've seen so far access the Internet directly and therefore
are vulnerable to trackers and so on.
Now all of these operating systems use the same networking virtual machine which is the safest net right
here.
Like I said this rules the traffic directly to the internet and therefore they're not anonymous or private.
However cubes also offer another networking service which is the source Unix.
This is a networking service that forces the traffic to go through the Tor network.
Therefore when a machine is configured to use the CIS Unix as the gateway.
This machine's traffic will be forced to go through the Tor network therefore improving our privacy
and anonymity.
Now by default we have a domain called anon 1x.
This is something that I haven't covered so far.
And as usual because this is a domain.
This means that this is a virtual machine designed for us to use to carry out day to day tasks to carry
out normal tasks.
And this virtual machine is a template of the Unix workstation right here and is configured to use the
CIS who next as its gateway.
Therefore all of the traffic going out of the non who next virtual machine will be forced to go through
the Tor network.
Let me show you real quick before we run this machine.
So I'm gonna go to my Q's manager and in here you'll notice that we have the EIN on who next right here.
This is the virtual machine that we can use for our day to day use because it is a domain.
And if you look under the net VM right here you'll see that it is configured to use the system who next
as its network.
Virtual Machine.
Which means that all of the traffic in this virtual machine will be forced to go to the source who next.
Which will force that traffic to go through the Tor network.
Now if you look at all of the other virtual machines you'll see that they're configured to use this
firewall.
For example the work right here you'll see that it is configured to use the CIS firewall as its networking
virtual machine.
And if we follow this we have this firewall right here.
You'll see this will redirect the traffic to the Internet so any traffic in my work domain and all of
the other virtual machines will go to the CIS firewall and then to the CIS net and to the Internet.
Therefore it is not anonymous and it's not private.
So let's go ahead and use this virtual machine.
So we're just gonna go again as usual to the virtual machine we want to start which is a non who next.
And you can see a list of all of the programs that you can run inside this virtual machine.
First one is an RC charged client that you can use to communicate over I.R.S. if you want.
You've got your settings you get your file manager you have the Tor browser which we've been using inside
different operating systems so using it in here is identical.
You have wizard that'll allow you to download an update tor using this is very simple.
You can just click it to run it it'll check what's the latest version and if there is a new version
you can install it from here.
You can rendezvous next check right here to check the whole who next operating system the whole who
an expert called Machine.
Make sure that it's up to date make sure that it is configured then it's running as expected.
This actually runs the first time you're on tables if you remember when we got the who next wizard then
we went through it in the first basics lecture of the section.
So there's no need to run this again.
And you also have your terminal where you can execute commands inside this virtual machine.
So right now let's just go ahead and run.
Detour browser obviously as usual this will start the next virtual machine first and then as soon as
it starts at a launch an instance of the Tor Browser and perfect as you can see we have the Utah browser
running inside the end on who next domain.
Notice the color it's different than all of the other domains.
Again this will help you to easily know which domain you're working in or which virtual machine.
And you can navigate to check the Tor dot com or just click on the IP check in here and you'll see that
this machine is configured to use the third browser properly.
So we are accessing the Internet through Tor.
So right now you can go ahead and access Tor hidden services from this browser.
You can also change its settings in here from the same places that you're used to.
So this is the exact same browser that we're using.
The only difference is right now it's running through it's own isolated virtual machine.
And as usual if this virtual machine gets compromised or hacked in any way it is completely isolated.
So it is very difficult and highly unlikely that the hacker will be able to exit this and compromise
other virtual machines.
Now just to confirm I already have a web browser here running in my work domain.
And let's just go to Google and check what's my I.P. you'll see that my IP my actual real IP in here
is completely different than the IP that we see in here inside the tower browser because inside the
next virtual machine like I said everything's being forced to go through the Tor network whereas my
work virtual machine if we look at the cubes VM in here the work virtual machine is used in this firewall
as its virtual machine which for roads that are directly to this is net and therefore goes directly
to the Internet.
Now another really cool virtual machine that we have in here is the disposable who next workstation.
So we already covered the normal disposable virtual machine and we saw how this can be very useful to
run untrusted applications untrusted files or open untrusted websites because like we said every time
you started this possible virtual machine cubes create a completely new virtual machine.
And then when you stop it this virtual machine is completely destroyed.
Therefore even if it contains any malware this malware will be destroyed along with the actual virtual
machine.
And because this is a completely isolated virtual machine it is very difficult to compromise.
The other machines.
So right here we have another disposable virtual machine.
The only difference between the WHO next and the fedora one the next one as the name suggests will force
all of the traffic to go through the next Gateway which forces all the traffic to go through the Tor
network.
So you can think of this like a disposable virtual machine that will force all the traffic through the
Tor network.
So you can use this virtual machine to run any untrusted darknet links.
And there are a lot of untrusted darknet links.
So this is very very useful and you can also use it to run any untrusted files that you get through
the darknet.
Now usually you should entrust any files you get even on the clear net but if you're receiving files
or if you want to open files that you download from the darknet then you should definitely write it
inside a disposable virtual machine.
Now using this is similar to any other virtual machine you can run the applications that you want from
here.
And because it is disposable like I said when you click on an application a virtual machine will be
created specifically to run this application only.
And when you close the application the whole virtual machine will be destroyed now with these two virtual
machines and with the weight cubes a structured you can do so much more.
You can actually create a different virtual machine for every identity that you want to use on the darknet.
So for example you can have a number of domains similar to the way we have work and personal and untrusted
here that all go through the clear net.
You can have a number of virtual machines that forced their traffic through the next gateway through
Tor and use each one of them for every identity you use on the darknet or for example use one of them
for chat.
Use one of them to only include your crypto wallet and use the other for surfing the Internet or for
surfing the darknet so you can really structure this any way you want and doing that is very very simple.
Let me show you.
So again you need to go back to your cubes manager and all you have to do is right click the machine
that you want to clone or create a copy of.
And in this case let's say you want to make a copy of our unknown who next because this is the virtual
machine that forces traffic through the Tor network and all you have to do is right click it and click
on Clone Q.
This will create a new virtual machine that is identical to an on who next.
And then you can use this for any other reason you want.
So this is really really cool and can be tailored to fit so many scenarios and so many uses.