So, a proxy is one way to bypass a firewall, that's one requirement. Hide from the server, that's the second requirement. That is the server doesn't know your IP address, okay. Now you need to be careful, a server can identify you based upon your IP address, like in the logs, whoever accesses it. But also many websites can identify you from other ways. Of course if you log into the website, they identify you. So if you use cookies, and you visited that website before, I don't know how cookies will work with a proxy, but it's possible depending upon the website that the website can still identify you. So if you want to hide yourself from the website, a proxy is a basic method, but it's not always, it will not always work. But it allows you to hide from others who may be trying to see who you're communicating with. Because what the others see, anyone here sees that you're communicating with a proxy. Anyone here sees the proxy communicating with a server. So they cannot see that you're communicating with a server. So that's one security requirement met. All of this depends upon the trust of the proxy. The proxy sees who you're communicating with and they see your data. So the proxy can do anything, well you're not secure against the proxy. What about using HTTPS? So what's the difference now? Still the addresses are the same. You send to the proxy, the proxy sends to the server. But now you encrypt the data. HTTPS, your browser encrypts the data, and there are different ways for this to work, but one way is they encrypt the data, send to the proxy. The proxy decrypts the data, and then encrypts again and sends to the real server. So we can use some encryption such that others in this portion of the internet and here will not be able to read your data. So if we compare HTTPS, the firewall can potentially read your data. Others out here can read your data. With HTTPS, we can prevent that. They cannot. And be aware, when you're using HTTPS with a proxy, the proxy can still see your data. The proxy must be able to decrypt what you sent to it so it knows where to send it. So you encrypt data saying send this data to server S. You send it to proxy, the proxy must decrypt that to know to send it to S. And then they encrypt the remaining data and actually send it to S. So important to note, the proxy can see your data. What that means? You're using a proxy and you want to log into Facebook. It's not secure from the perspective of the proxy. The proxy can see your login credentials. Even if the proxy says it's using HTTPS, even if Facebook says it's using HTTPS, the proxy still has access to that data. The encryption with HTTPS is what we call end-to-end. It's between two endpoints. So if you want security between you and the real server, you cannot go via the proxy because the proxy needs to read it to be able to send it on. So using a web proxy can protect against others, but it cannot protect from the proxy reading your data, which suggests don't use proxies to do anything that requires confidentiality of your data because you place your trust in the proxy and how much do you trust? Where do we go? Who trusts this website? Who's ever used it? You've never used it before.  You don't. You go to this website and you'll see lists of hundreds of proxies. You don't know any of them. So if you're using it, then how do you know that they're not just intercepting all your log-ins when you try to log into websites? So generally, don't use proxies to log into websites. Just use it for normal browsing that doesn't require confidentiality. Or set up your own proxy. Well, that's a bit more complex. So how can we get around that? Well, we'll look at another approach. VPNs, virtual private networks. Who's used one? A VPN. OK, so we'll use one in a moment. There are different ways to do it, but let's explain the concepts. A VPN, we'll see it uses encryption. It encrypts your data between two points. Normally, when you use the internet, unless you use a specific option like HTTPS, normally you use HTTP and there's no encryption. You send an email, no encryption. VPNs provide encryption by default between two points in the internet. And they use a concept called tunneling. Let's see if we can explain it in a simplistic approach. With a VPN, we have a VPN client and a VPN server. The VPN client is usually your computer. You install some software or your operating system has some software. And you need a VPN server. So either a free VPN server or one you pay for. We'll give you some examples. So we have you. You want to access this web server. Here's your VPN server. Maybe you're paying to use this VPN server. With respect to the addresses, it's not exact, but from the point of privacy, we see what happens with the addresses. What happens is that you have a packet to send to the server. You want to access the website. So your computer creates a packet. And you can think there's some data inside there. The destination is s. And the VPN software on your computer sets the source to v, where v identifies the VPN server, not you. And I put the lines through this to say all of this is encrypted. So your data that you're sending to the web server is encrypted. And the address of the web server is encrypted. That's what we call the inner packet. That's what we want to send to the web server. Then your VPN software puts that inside another packet, where the source address is u, and the destination is your VPN server. And it's this outer header, this outer packet information, that tells the internet these routers where to send this. So the data is this encrypted portion. And it's going to be sent from u to v. You send it to the router. It goes to the firewall. The firewall checks destination v. It's not s. Let's let it through. So we bypass the firewall because the destination is v, not s. The packet eventually gets to v. v is the VPN server. And what that does is takes the inner part and decrypts it. And when you decrypt it, what do you get remaining? Well, this. You get the original data you want to send to the website. Source is v. Destination is s. That is then sent across the internet. The server receives it. The server, the website, thinks, ah, here's a request for a web page from the VPN server, sends back a reply to the VPN server, which will then encrypt again and send it back to you, allowing you to see the content. How is it different or what services provide different from our proxy? The firewall cannot see that you're communicating with the server. What does the firewall see? It thinks you're communicating with v, not s. So there's one requirement met. The firewall cannot detect who you're communicating with. Others out here on the internet cannot see that you is communicating with s. The others out here think v is communicating with s. So again, our requirement of hiding who's communicating has been achieved. These ones think it's v to s. These ones think it's u to v. No one knows it's actually u to s. The server, when it receives the packet, thinks it came from v. It doesn't know about u. So the server cannot identify you. Encryption is performed between u and v. So over this portion of the network, no one can read your data. You have encryption. But from v to s, there's no encryption. Therefore, someone here can still read your data. So don't use it for confidential data. The VPN can still read your data. The VPN can read your data and knows that you're communicating with s. So you can't hide it from the VPN. They know it's u talking to s, but others do not. So we're getting there in terms of achieving this full privacy and confidentiality that now we still have a problem that these ones can see your data. And we also rely on the VPN server. Who has a VPN server? Well, the question more is who has a server out on the internet, a computer on the internet? Sorry? Not Dropbox, although different things you can achieve with that.  That's also a US model class. Yeah, or you have one in another location. So you can usually use them as a VPN server. So usually outside of your network, your normal network, often they require paying. You pay per month to use some other computer. And that can act quite easily as a VPN server. How do we, well, go direct to it. HTTPS, same. Except now we have our data encrypted between you and the server. Your browser encrypts the data. The VPN software encrypts the data plus this inner header. When the data arrives at the VPN server that it's still encrypted, HTTPS encrypted it. The VPN server cannot read the data. Others on this portion of the internet between V and S cannot read the data. So this is much better in that no one can read your data. No one knows or the intermediate nodes except the VPN server know who you're communicating with. So we've got this privacy of actions. I say the server cannot identify you by IP address, but if you're using HTTPS and if you're logging into that server they can still identify you. Or if you're using cookies to access their website they can identify you. So we're getting close. Except we still rely on the VPN server. Let's set one up, let's try a VPN. And everyone has access to a VPN. Everyone has at least an account on ICT. Almost everyone. Where are we going? Sorry. Well, there are multiple technologies for setting up a VPN. VPN is a general concept but there are different implementations. Some you'll hear about. So there are different protocols that do it for us. PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, openVPN and lesser popular secure shell. All of these protocols that allow us to do the same thing as what we see in this general VPN concept. Who has a mobile phone here today? Android or iOS? Open it up. Open it up. Don't worry, I have Symbian. Open up your phone and go to the network settings somewhere find the VPN settings. Should work on both. So I can't remember the exact settings but you can find it. Find somewhere under network or advanced settings a VPN. And you should find that you can select from different VPN technologies. I think in Android, you go to the network settings and you can select VPN. And you can add a VPN network. And in Android at least, and I think iOS is about the same. We cannot see it, but there are different types of VPNs. You should see, if you see the VPN settings, you'll see types of PPTP, IPsec and L2TP and some variations upon them. Can you find them? So that's saying you can use different VPN settings or different types of VPNs. Of course, to set that up on your mobile phone you need a VPN server. Let's have a very quick try. If you go on your laptop to vpnbook.com, you'll find they provide a free VPN server. See if I can find the website. If you go to vpnbook.com on your laptop, they provide a free proxy plus a free VPN server. Do we trust them? Well, we hope so. But you can at least try them as a quick attempt. And you may be able to try it on your mobile phone. With the exception, if you do this within SIT, I think SIT blocks these VPN software. You may have to use it over 3G. So we will not spend much time on it, but you may try that. It's something you may try outside of here. If you go to vpnbook.com, I'll open up the browser. And if you scroll down, you'll see down here free open VPN and PPTP VPN. Select PPTP. And I haven't tried this, so I don't know if this one will work. You may attempt. So when you set up a VPN, you need the address of the VPN server. And this company or this organization provides several in Europe, in UK, and in the US. You can select anyone. I think in your mobile phone, you select one of these as the VPN server address. And you need a username and password, and it's here. So again, I haven't tried this, not with the mobile phone, right out of time. Connected. And if it connects, maybe then on your phone, visit a website like, what is my IP address? And see if it shows you your IP address. I cannot do it on the laptop, because SIT blocks PPTP inside here, the firewall. So on your phone, you should be an option to set the address of the VPN server. Choose any one of these. It doesn't matter. An option to enter the username and password. Here they are. And then there should eventually show on your phone connected. And once it's connected, then open your browser and access a website. And if it's all working, everything's going via this VPN server. Did it work? Okay. Does it identify where you are? So here he's on his mobile phone. He's in Stockholm. And his IP address is that, not of his or SIT, but of the server. So to check that it's working, open a website and go to, what's the URL? What is my IP? Go to a website that tells you your IP address. Yeah, there are many. What is my IP address.com? So when you normally go to this website and others, they can identify you. This is just a website that tells you who is, what is your source address? Well, it identifies me as being at Thomas Art University with this IP address. Well, there's network address translation going on here that it cannot identify Steve's laptop, but it can identify I'm in Thomas Art, which is not good from a privacy perspective. Then if you've got your VPN set up on your mobile phone, go to this website and see what it identifies you as. You can use PPTP on most operating systems built in, but like I said, SIT blocks it, so you may have to try it from home on your laptop. We'll try a different one that does work. Those that aren't using their phone can make sure you have open VPN installed, okay? Did it come up as a different address? Okay, so the address that this website identifies you as is the address of the VPN server. So the website doesn't know who you are. What is my IP address dot com? Just as a test. Maybe browse a few websites that you've accessed, see what the speed's like, okay? While you have the VPN connected, just visit one or two websites that you commonly use on your mobile phone and see if you can tell if there's a difference in the speed. That is, is there a long delay or not? Sometimes it may be. So that PPTP is one way to set up a VPN. VPN book is just a free VPN server. If you want, if you don't trust them, then usually you need to set up or pay for your own VPN server. Let's try another one, which you can do on your laptop. It's using secure shell. So if you're using Windows, you need to have Putty installed. And it was on the website. Who has it? If you're using OSX or Linux, you can use the command line for this. So in your laptop, if you want to follow along, you need a secure shell client. I don't have Windows. We can use secure shell to do the same thing as long as we have a secure shell server to connect to. And almost everyone here does have a secure shell server. The ICT server acts as a secure shell server. Those that have taken my courses have probably used it. They've logged in. And their username is this with their ID and their password that it was set. Those that haven't taken probably have a login, but they may not know their password. So when you, maybe later, we can change your password so you can log into ICT. But just for today, I've set up another one on my personal server, which everyone can use. But you need secure shell. So we'll use sandylands.info as the destination, the username, VPN, test, password, S-I-T demo. Here you use your laptop to try this. If you're using, again, Linux or OSX, you need to open up a terminal and run this command. If you're using Windows, you need to open up putty, which you need installed, which you don't, if you haven't. This is just the first step. Just for those who have OSX and Linux, so on the command lines SSH secure shell, this is minus L, L for login. This will not work on Windows. VPN test is the username. These options, we don't need to explain too much, minus N, minus D, and some port number of chosen and you can use the same 6666 and then the destination address and it will prompt you for the password and there it is, S-I-T demo. That creates a secure connection between your computer and our VPN server, sandylands.info. And on Windows, I don't have the screenshot, but who has putty installed? Yeah? If you do, if you don't, you can go to the ICT website that we had before and download and it's a quick install. I'll go back to it. If you do, sorry, flicking through, I can't find my web browser. If you don't have it installed yet, it's here under Tilda S Gordon VPN test and you can install it, it's just a two megabyte file. Once installed, then you look for, there's some configuration options, some menu configuration, and then there's look for connection SSH tunnels and you should see these options of source port, destination, and forwarding. Did it log in? S-I-T demo. The password, the username is VPN test, the password is S-I-T demo. Simple. Did it log in? Connection SSH tunnels and yeah, there's three things, correct, dynamic. So when you get to the window under tunnels, you set the port, you set the destination, you select the checkbox dynamic. Is that right? I think so, yeah. Did it work? Look for tunnels, SSH and go down. Tunnels. Dynamic, port, destination. Okay, so install party. Okay, connection SSH, expand. Source port, destination, and select dynamic. Source port as on the screen, 6666, and make sure you select dynamic. Yep. The password is S-I-I-T demo. So in party, once you've set those options, then you connect to sandilands.info and it'll prompt you for a username and password, which are, sorry, VPN test and S-I-T demo. And it should log you in, although provide you no interactivity, but it connects you to the VPN server using the protocol called secure shell SSH. This is maybe the most complex ones of setting up, but just as a demo. Did it log in? And there's no feedback, so on OSX or Linux, there's, you'll type in the password, then it will sit there doing nothing, it's logged in. Then open your browser and look for the proxy settings. S-I-I-T demo, S-I-I, it's typing, sorry, try again. Press enter, enter. It just doesn't show you what it's typing, so it is typing, so you may have to close and start again. Did this log in okay? Oh, yes, that's logged in, done. Once you've connected, so it prompts for you username and password, you have the tunnel connected from your computer to the server. Now you need to get your application to use that tunnel. Open your browser and we need to change some settings in the browser to use the tunnel. I will do it in Firefox, but it'll be similar in others. Somewhere in your browser, there are preferences or options. Find your options or preferences and you should have many different options to choose from. In Firefox, it's under advanced and network. You're looking for something about how your browser connects to the internet or proxy settings. It'll be different in all browsers, but it should exist. So you find your browser settings, which should do with proxy or how it connects to the internet and there, so in my case, it says choose a proxy and I need a manual configuration. You want to set the SOX proxy. Make sure all the others are empty, set the SOX, the host, the local host and the port to the one that you set before, 6666. Again, it will look different in different browsers, but I think you need to look for SOX. Did you find your SOX? Network, network settings, okay? So find your options somewhere, yeah? Okay, and dynamics, okay, and now have you got some other window? What happens when you press open, nothing. Go to session, select the host name here, Sandylands.info. Sandylands.info, maybe we missed that step. Oh, possibly, some people are logged in. It doesn't provide any feedback when you're logged in. Oh, okay, now it's logged out, has it? There may be a limit. Is anyone still logged in? Oh, okay, all right, we may have a problem. Too many people logged in. One last test. I see, I think everyone's having the same problem that some people logged in, but now it's disconnecting. I think there's a problem with the server, okay? This one is the hardest one to set up and actually relies on having the server set up to support SSH, which I tried on the shared one, but it's not working, I think, because the server got overloaded when everyone connected. I can't even log in. So we're gonna have to fail that one. What will you do in the future? Because in fact, this demo server, you will not have an account after today. It was just for today. But you do have an account on ICT server. So in this demo, you use Sandylands.info and VPN test. If you have an account on another server, ICT, you can use that and you log in there. And all right, it's not very interesting now. What you do is you set up your browser to use this SOX protocol to connect to the local host and the port number here, and once you do that, if it worked, again, your browser that would then tunnel or go via the VPN server. So if you connected to a website, it's all sent to Sandylands.info and then sent onto the website. So it was one way of providing a tunnel, but it didn't work. Let's try another way then. So PPTP worked on your mobile phone for some people. SSH would work if you had a good server to connect to, but there are not many free servers for secure shell. You're lucky in ICT, you can use that in the future. Let's try the last one for a VPN and it's called OpenVPN. Let's not try and get secure shell working. Let's try OpenVPN. So with PPTP, one VPN solution, usually your operating system supports it automatically. There's nothing to install. With secure shell, you needed to install some software and you need the server set up. There's a third alternative called OpenVPN and again, you need to install some software on your computer for it to work, the client. So, and it takes a bit, if you haven't done it, then I think you can do it quite quickly. There are really three steps. You need to install the OpenVPN client and for OSX and Windows, they are on the website that I provided before, if you haven't installed them. Who hasn't been installed? Who has OpenVPN? Anyone? It's installed okay on the Mac? Yep, okay. Then how to install on Windows? There's a version for 32-bit and most likely you have 64-bit so simply go to, it's very easy to install. I can find my web browser. Go here and choose OpenVPN and install it. It's only two megabytes. Choose the one based on your architecture. 64-bit or 32-bit I686. Install OpenVPN client. This should work better than SecureShell. You've got to install and then you can download, if you go back to the directory, you'll see a .op, or a gzip file I think. Or you can download it direct from here. It's just a copy. Let's go to FreeVPN, OpenVPN, one of these files, one of the bundles. I think you need to somehow open that in OpenVPN. Yep, install. Once OpenVPN is installed, then you go to vpnbook.com, the website, and find the OpenVPN option and download one of their bundles. You'll see it there. You've installed it. You need to compile it. I think you just need to install it. Pseudo type Pseudo apt-get install OpenVPN. I'll show you.  And you choose your location, US, UK, and so on. You download that file. I think it's a zip file. And inside there, there are multiple files again. And you open that profile inside OpenVPN. So multiple steps here. Install the client, download the profile, open the profile. Don't look at the password here. Look at the password on the website for VPN book. It changes quite often. This free VPN server, they change their password. So you actually need to manually go back and get it. You're installing. You can just install from here. You're compiling. No, here, Pseudo apt-get install OpenVPN. So this is, you downloaded it. Have you done this? Okay, then download, go to VPN book, and download the profile. If you choose the profile that you want, this buys his VPN. You can use his or you can use, if you go to vpnbook.com, they have some profiles that you can use. You don't need this one. Go to the website and you'll find the files to download. Works. And in OpenVPN, the client should have some way to load that profile. And try the TCP 443 profile. That'll make sense once you've opened it. Works. So you choose one of them. And now one of these files, the 443 file, open that in OpenVPN. So if you start OpenVPN, it will let you choose or maybe save those files or extract. There are four different ones. One of them finishes with TCP 443. Choose that one. And now start OpenVPN, which you just installed, and it should give you, it's already running. Do you have it running somewhere? No, close this. Yeah, double click to extract. And then the profile needs to be loaded in OpenVPN. Is it running somewhere? Maybe in the taskbar. Okay, is it somewhere down here? I don't know, the icon. Did yours open? Yeah. And you need to load. So you've downloaded the file, extracted, and then open that profile. Are you? Are you? Is it manual? Confirmed. No, let me check. How do you open in Windows OpenVPN profile? Oh, can you just open it? Yeah. Oh, you need to put it in there. Okay, it's a bit more complicated than we hoped on Windows. So if you're using Windows and OpenVPN, the last step which I didn't show is that you downloaded this profile or bundle in there, you extract it and copy those files, I think, into this directory, and then start OpenVPN. That's for Windows. Are you using Ubuntu or Linux? That one was easy, I think, on the VPN book website. On the VPN book website, there's the instructions. In fact, the instructions are probably best from the VPN book website. It has a set of how-tos, much better than my slides, for each operating system. Yeah, did it work? Yeah, it's really happy. Okay, so someone's got it working on Windows, but it's not working very well in that it's slow. Good point. Go to the VPN book website. And there's how-to and how to do it on Linux. Did it work here? There's, on the VPN website, there's a how to set up. Okay, it's working. Now, access, can you test it at working? Go to whatismyipaddress.com. You'll know it's working when your web browsing is very slow. Because it's a free VPN server, maybe many people are using it, and maybe the resources are not sufficient to support all those users. Try that. Those people that got it working may want to try and install and use the Tor browser bundle. That's maybe the easiest of all of them to install. Download, extract. So if you've got your open VPN working, we'll look at a final option. You can download from the ICT website the Tor TOR browser bundle for your particular operating system. Did it work? You put the files in this. I think you need to do this step first. That is, you downloaded the bundle, the profile. You extract the files and save them in here. So where are the... Okay, yeah, those need to be saved in this directory on your computer. So extract them to there. Extract. And now copy and paste them into that directory. And then start. Then try and restart open VPN. Try. So it worked. Works on Linux, but very, very slow. Yep. Sometimes using a different server. Which one did you use? US, UK? US. Okay. Sometimes a different server. Maybe less loaded. Sorry? It says after a moment here. From Romania. Yeah. So you got the Europe one. Those two worked. Works. Open VPN. Yep. Good. Especially the VPN. What was the difference between the... So, just different techniques for all providing a VPN. Okay. You get the same servers. You get the same... Yeah. The same level of security. Just, you know, with PPTP, it was already on your Android phone. Or on your phone. It's already in Windows. PPTP is installed and ready. So it's much easier to use. Open VPN, you need to install software. So that are the main differences, the convenience. We'll look at a little bit at the end. Compare each of them. But basically, it depends on what computer you're using. Mobile versus laptop. Yeah, there's not much difference. Okay. We'll see who else gets going. That's the point, to see it slow is important. Because that's one of the problems with VPNs. Especially free ones. If you've got it working, and I see a few people have got open VPN working, the last one may be to download and install the Tor browser bundle. It should be the easiest of all. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Did it work in the end? Okay. The passwords on the website. So yeah, copy them. If you copy them into this directory, then I think you need to start OpenVPN. Yep. Oh, it's already run. It's fine. So somewhere in here, is it? Somewhere. That one, is it? I don't know where it is. Must be somewhere. It's not. Let me find out. Try Tor. TOR. Did you find it? Okay. Alright, install. It depends on what architecture you have. You have 64-bit or 32-bit. Do you remember? So you want this one. No, x8664. This one. This one should still work. I think that will work as well. The last task. Install the Tor browser bundle. If you've got VPN working. It's here. Or the instructions for installing are here. You can actually download the package from the ICT website. If you go to the ICT where you downloaded the other software, you'll find I've put the Tor browser bundle there as well. Just connect.  Don't use them at the same time. That is, if you're using Tor, make sure you've disabled OpenVPN. We don't want to confuse. You only need one at a time. Tor browser bundle installs all the setup and provides you a browser as well. With the aim of not doing all the things like cookies and so on. Which one did you use? 443? Yeah, 443. It should say something like initialization complete. When it's finished, it's going. Yep. It takes time, you see. Some error there. You may want to try a different destination. The username is on VPN Book. If you go to the website for VPN Book. The username is VPN Book. The password is this one. It's H2. Try Tor. If you go to ICT, you can download it and then you have it already. They suggest don't install it from the package manager. It takes some time to connect. You see, it's connecting. You have to wait a bit. It's a free VPN server, so there may be many people using it. If you really want good performance, you need to pay. If you install the Tor browser bundle and install it, then once it's finished installing or once you start it, it should bring up a browser saying congratulations. Then browse using that browser. It's effectively using a VPN, but even better, we'll see that to finish today. Once it opens up that browser saying congratulations, visit a website or search. Maybe what is my IP address via the Tor browser? Tor browser? It's connecting. Yep, it's connecting. Yeah. It takes a while. And especially since everyone's connecting via maybe our Wi-Fi. So I think people, to install Tor, it's quite easy and it takes a while to connect. Once it's connected, then you should be okay. Your OpenVPN worked before? Did it work before? It's never worked. Did you install from the package, sudo apt-get? Yeah, okay. Ah, yeah. Try the command with sudo. Oh, sudo. Hmm? You have to pay for it from the iPad. Tor? They don't have Tor, so people make the other browsers that connect to Tor. There you go, write an application that does it. You can use it for free. Yeah. If you break your iPad. Yeah, you break it. How to go? Determine, yeah, the speed test will be interesting. It should be very slow. I forgot with Ubuntu, you need to run it as sudo. Let's see if it connects. Tor worked? Yeah. Fast or slow? Faster than OpenVPN? Maybe. It depends on the servers. It depends on many things. Who connected with Tor? Hands up. Yes. Tor? Did it connect eventually? Still connecting. Why is it so slow? Are you sure you don't have a firewall or anything? I think it takes a long time. It should present a warning if the firewall blocks it. It eventually connected, Sam. Yep. And it worked, yep. Now just... You can't... You must use it. Okay. It should be slow. It possibly will be slow. Yeah, almost random. Okay, so... Some success. Some not. SSH didn't work, but that's just the server. I think if in the future you wanted to use it, you could. OpenVPN worked for some people, for most people. Very slow. Tor is maybe the easiest. You just download and install. There's not much to set up. Speed may be an issue. I'll just try and summarise what we've done about those, and then we'll finish, and then we can come back to any software if we need. And talk about the difference between them all. So... Web proxy. You just visit a website, and that forwards your data to the real server. VPNs. A secure connection to a special VPN server, which then forwards the data to the real server. There are different ways to set up a VPN. We tried SSH. It didn't work, but we may try again one day, and I'm sure we'll get it to work on a different server. We tried OpenVPN as an alternative. And it worked for some of you. Okay. Using the free VPN book. But note the VPN book is just one of the many free VPN servers. You'll find that it's quite slow. If you want good performance, you usually need to pay for access to a VPN server. Maybe a few dollars a month. On the mobile phone, we tried PPTP. And it worked. There are others. IPsec, L2TP. Just different ways to set up a VPN. We'll look at the... We'll compare them in a moment. And... We don't know why it's secure, but, of course, we must trust the VPN. The VPN sees all of our communications. If we use HTTPS, the VPN cannot read our data, but still knows who we're communicating with. Then some of you got to install... Install Tor, the onion router. And we don't have time to explain how it works in detail. It's almost like a VPN, but better. Let's go straight to the HTTPS. With Tor, your computer sends to some special other computer that's running Tor as well, which sends then... So that's your computer sends to T1. So, again, it bypasses the firewall because the source is you, destination is T1. And that's what the software did. It sent to T1. And then T1 sends to another Tor computer, T2, which sends to another and eventually to some exit and then out to the server. So think of it as like a VPN, but multiple hops. With a VPN, we send to one VPN server and then to the destination. With Tor, think we send to one encrypted, it's all encrypted. That sends to another all encrypted and then eventually to the exit and then out to the server. What this provides is privacy from these intermediate nodes of who you're communicating with. It's set up such that T1, when it receives from you, it knows it came from you. And it knows it needs to send to T2. So T1 knows about you and T2. It doesn't know who the exit or T3 is and it doesn't know the server. T2 receives from T1, so they know the address of T1. It sends to T3, so it knows the address of T3, but T2 does not know about you, E or S. And similar, E receives from T3 and has to send to S. Not those two neighbors. But E, the exit node, doesn't know that it came from T2 or T1 or actually came from you. This set up is such that you cannot determine who's the original source and who are the intermediate nodes in this path. So it's the case that each node in the network only knows the immediate proceeding node that sent it to it and the immediate next destination. So T2 doesn't know it came from you. T3 doesn't know it came from you. E doesn't know it came from you. Therefore, they cannot connect you with the server. Okay? The end result, we use encryption in all of these paths. The firewall cannot read the data, it's encrypted. If we use HTTPS, our data is encrypted and the tour nodes, these intermediate nodes, do not know that you are communicating with the web server. If you compare to VPN, the VPN server knows that you're communicating with S. That's the problem with a VPN. You must trust the VPN server. With tour we get everything the same but the intermediate servers don't even know that you're communicating with S. That's the main benefit of tour. Full privacy in that no one knows that you're talking to S to finish. Many different ones for a VPN. So we there's SSH, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP. What's the difference? It depends on what you need to install on your computer. Some are built into the operating system, some are not. Some we need to install like OpenVPN. Some only work for some applications. SecureShell only works for web browsing. The others work for all applications. You use your instant messaging, your email client and the others use the VPN for that. SecureShell does not. All of them have good encryption although PPTP has some flaws in it so it's not as strong as the others. Some of them have some overhead that makes them slow. I think you saw that the VPNs were quite slow. There's a small difference between each of them but usually it's not so significant. Some of them are blocked by firewalls so PPTP and L2TP use protocols such that it's very common for firewalls to block them. That's why we can't use them inside SIT. Whereas OpenVPN works well through firewalls. So there's a trade-off in terms of convenience as to which one's easiest to install, which one's easiest to get through the firewall. There's no one best solution for VPNs. There are different ones. And the last slide. On the left no security. There's a lot of security problems. There's a lot of security problems with browsing either HTTP or HTTPS using a web proxy, using a VPN, using TOR. The first five or the first four are our security requirements. Do we provide data secrecy? Can someone else read our data? Can we bypass the firewall? Can someone else identify us? And some comparison between them. With basic, with nothing, we don't have any security effectively unless we use HTTPS, our data's private. Of course it's free. We don't have to install anything. And it's the best performance. With a web proxy, we don't have any data secrecy. We must trust the proxy. There's a problem there. But we can bypass a firewall. We're protected from others, although not the proxy. And we can hide from the server. The server doesn't identify us. Same with a VPN. But a VPN, we can do better with respect to data secrecy. We use encryption, especially using HTTPS. With TOR, again, similar to a VPN. But with a VPN, we must trust the VPN server. With TOR, we must trust a particular server. We still provide privacy with TOR. So that's considered the best in terms of privacy. Log analysis is, let's say you've used these for a month and then someone comes, some legal department comes after you and tries to find out which website you accessed. Can they go back and look at all the logs to try and find what you did? Can the police department another country and ask the policeman department there to check the logs of the VPN server? So this extreme requirement of what does someone need to do to find out what you did? Well, they go and analyze the logs. With normal web browsing, they either ask the internet service provider or ask the web server. And they provide the logs and then they find out you accessed it. With a proxy, they either ask the ISP or server or they ask the proxy server. OK? If they have power over the proxy server, they can do that. With a VPN similar, with TOR, well, there's no good ways for someone to track what you've done. So with TOR, with respect to privacy, it's the best. It's very hard for someone to even analyze the logs to see who you're communicated with. Last one. Cost. Proxies either add supported or you can pay for a small amount per month in the order of dollars per month. VPNs are typically to get good VPNs you need to pay. The free ones are OK for a quick use but not for prolonged use. TOR is free. OK? It uses everyone else's computers to go viral. Which one's easier to install? Well, you tried it. So you can compare which one's easier to set up. Performance. Well, proxy, usually OK VPN depends upon where the servers are. TOR is usually the worst. May not, maybe not today but in general, it's usually the worst in terms of performance. TOR is commonly used today to people to to WikiLeaks and to like it's TOR was developed by the US government a research department the Navy but it's considered secure. It's used a lot in countries like Syria and Egypt in the past which they've used it to bypass firewalls but also to not get detected by that true privacy you don't depend upon some server because if you depend upon some VPN server or proxy server then maybe the government just goes to the operator of that VPN and says tell me who accessed this website with TOR they cannot do that but here's the red box, it's the slowest. So you need to choose what are your requirements how much you're prepared to pay and what usage you want out of it to choose the best solution


I've been commissioned by 1800 tequila to create a refined ensemble from raw pieces for the red carpet. I have one more piece to make, which is the coat. The day of the show, there's going to be lights, a bunch of people, and the heat will be omnipresent. So what's important is that the coat is breathable. I think this may be the hardest fabric for me to find. Some people who do what I do, they have great archives. When I go to flea markets, if I see anything that I can gain motivation from, I'll pick it up and it usually ends up in one of these boxes of stuff. This Parisian raincoat double breasted, heat sealed, and what happens is whenever projects such as this come along, I can then say, I think I have something that I may be actually able to use for an outfit. I found this at a thrift shop. It had these numbers on it, like when a parachute inflates, it has the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all the way around it. And it said, you know, NASA space program on it. I was just like, this is at a second hand shop? Where do parachutes go to die? Like I never thought about that. It has an amazing breathability because the parachute so naturally it has to breathe. So this is perfect. The robe is one thing. Char lapel, all black, has the belt.  It is my hope that this thing doesn't disintegrate, that it stays together and that it just takes the color. The people who designed that parachute, I guarantee you had no idea that some 60 years later it would be used on a red carpet. When finding materials, there's no place that I won't look because you never know when you're going to find something at a junkyard, if need be, at a second hand store. It's great to find beauty in unexpected places.  To take something that is raw and then refine it into something that somebody would wear, there's no better feeling.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards ripping one box a 21 Pidini playbook football hobby for James F So good luck your James. Let's do it, man Live on TikTok. Let's go chinkings Oh, France You just don't want messy the way my girlfriend's friends really not like Super friend. She's just like Nationality wise All right, good luck here James. Let's see what we got in here for you man It's been a minute since I've ripped some playbook football. So here we go Locker how about like a nasty tealaw laundry tag tealaw that'd be kind of wild James that got Elijah Moore. That's 25 out of 99 for the jets on the hot routes patch Nice one there Hopefully he gets traded No, what's up with the jets and all the receivers requesting trades? At least Garrett Wilson's good. True hot routes 249 out of 299. It's gonna be Tyler Boyd for the Bengals Until like two years later when Garrett Wilson also request a trade Nice one there We've got auto is gonna be Diami Brown 25 out of 49 for the Washington commanders Congrats on that one there again at James It's Diami Brown and then we've got our booklet is gonna be for the Buccaneers on card Kyle Trask Nice one there Florida Gator legend Kyle Trask Could be the guy very true could be the guy next year and that is gonna be numbered 135 out of 199 That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again, or that'll do it for the break James. Thanks again for your support My man, we'll get that right out to you, buddy


This is Witchspace news for Friday the 1st of April 2022, I'm CMDR Buur. In Elite Dangerous News this week, there's three paint jobs up for grabs in this week's mining CG, there's a possible change in Thargoid behaviour and we've a summary of yesterday's Frontier livestream. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. As was widely anticipated a new community goal sprang up with this week's Thargsday Tick that sees the salvation aligned Taurus mining ventures requesting deliveries of ore mined from within a Guardian system. As we reported recently an article on Galnet News in-game is reporting that Salvation's favourite mineral extraction specialists are investigating the matter altering properties of peculiar radiation sources within systems that are host to the ruins of structures created by the presumed long dead guardians. This week's community goal is requesting commanders make deliveries of certain minerals gathered from within one specific system and in return as well as the usual cash incentives Taurus is also offering up three free paint jobs for the top 75% of contributors depending on what tier the CG reaches by end of next week. One for the diminutive type 6, one for the type 9 heavy and one for the python. Suffice to say the mining community at the very least has leapt with enthusiasm towards the goal with our own Burpit mining company already producing a mapped mining run that can be followed by practitioners of this particular dark art for maximum efficiency. It certainly seems at the moment like the story in the game might be turning its eye toward the guardians and their as yet largely unexplored arc within the elite dangerous universe. If that's the case then this community goal could in the longer term at least be more significant than it may at first appear. With just one final update as we were going to press we heard tell of a secret community goal that is running right now until April the 7th next week. Some commanders have received an inbox message from Salvation asking for guardian relics to be delivered to the Megaship Musashi in HIP 39768 for what is being referred to as an quote extremely generous payout unquote. This is genuine it's not an April Fools joke. My thanks to Commander Orpheus for the heads up on this one. The recent flurry of Thargoid attacks that began edging closer to the bubble appear at least for now to have stalled somewhat with no new infestations and no new burning stations appearing that need unburning. Quite what has caused the bitentical worry weeds to pause their encroachments this time around is a matter for speculation but the YouTube channel Galnet News Digest run by commanders Beethel Jude and Wotherspoon has followed up on an interesting wrinkle that had been the subject of some discussion here at the pit. The recent Thargoid system infestations did not result in station attacks but they did appear instead to result in some Megaships being attacked. That fact led to speculation here that the goopy carnations of chaos might instead be hunting for the Megaships that Salvation had been using as part of their mysterious weed-killing Death Star operations. An article from Galnet News Digest that you'll find linked in the video description goes further along this thread and has investigated the phenomena with one Megaship in particular turning up some interesting results. They are reporting that Gordon-class bulk cargo ship HDI-31 in the Norney system contains logs that seem to indicate that they were carrying a salvaged artifact in their hold that was pointing them somewhere and that as a result they were hyperdicted by the Thargoids who took exception to it. This does all point to patterns of behaviour that we've seen before from the Pleiades party poopers as does the mysterious artifact that appears to be pointing at something. Indeed this is how contact with the Thargoids was first established by commanders in the Elite Dangerous Era. If you're curious to check out the Megaship mentioned here you'll find links to the Galnet News Digest video and all the system details in the video description below. I am of course acutely aware that all this might appear to be chasing shadows. As was often the case in the early days of Elite Dangerous there were apparently no results to be gleaned from investigations into things just left laying around in the game by Frontier. That was of course the case until suddenly there were results and things started happening. To that all I would say is that we are still very much at the start of a new expansion and Frontier have confirmed that there is new stuff entering the game some of which they will overtly tell us about some of which they won't. If anything is going to surface in the game the next few months are in my opinion the most likely time for that to happen and we'll never find this stuff unless we look for it. A very wise man once said watch out for the shadows they move when you're not looking at them. Frontier's Frameshift live series of regular Thursday livestreams continued yesterday afternoon and at its height the chance for some new information and also the now regular Twitch Drop campaigns brought in over 4000 viewers. If you're unfamiliar with Twitch Drops the system sees free in-game items unlocked for commanders that link their Elite Dangerous accounts to their Twitch accounts and then rack up the requisite amount of time watched tuned in to the official Elite Dangerous live streams. There are two tiers of Drop available running throughout the year, one constantly running campaign and one more exclusive seasonal campaign. The constant campaign will unlock various purple themed paint jobs, engine and weapon detailing as well as commander tattoo packs, flight suits and ship name plates. The seasonal Drops are season themed ship skins and last nights saw the last opportunity to earn the spring paint jobs, however a new seasonal campaign should start next week with the first livestream of April. If you've not started collecting your in-game freebies then I've linked in the video description to Frontier's website where you can get everything hooked up ready for the next livestream. Whilst hosting the stream Zach and Bruce also took the opportunity to highlight again the community calendar recently launched by the company that is now starting to fill up with community generated events. If you're searching for a new challenge in the game then that is definitely a good place to look with two big expeditions leaving in the next few days a PVP competition and a new Bucky Ball event being just some of the events listed for the coming month ahead. The regular livestream format also features commander creations and the regular weekly stellar screenshots the community produces as well as a development section from Frontier. The dev section this week again featured no details of upcoming content additions or patches the team however did again reiterate that the issue of account transfers from console additions to the PC platform was still being investigated by the dev team following the recent announcement of no future development for the game on consoles. The CMs again reiterating that as soon as they have any more details to share they'll announce it. With no official news of any upcoming patches or content drops into the game since the console cancellation was announced this understandably still a degree of nervousness rumbling through the community right now and that isn't likely to go away until something appears or is announced. Update 11 was a really strong appearance for Odyssey from the dev team and whilst they're definitely not yet at the end of the journey for the Odyssey launch last year overall graphics performance and stability are very much improved it would be nice however to hear something from Frontier soon about their plans for the road ahead. Are you mining for this week's community goal are you planning on visiting a derelict hyperdicted megaship or heading out on an expedition? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.


Hello everyone, I am Saith Prasad Pohirika, founder of Pacific Medical Technology. The motivation and inspiration for starting this current venture is from the injuries what you see for burns and acid attacks in India. There are like around 10 lakhs people who get injuries because of burns every year. Even in military wars and this you will see lots of burn cases when soldiers are on the ground. This has started as an inspiration for me and currently I am developing a skin spray gun. It is a simple portable medical device which sprays skin pieces on the wounds for rapid healing. And currently the process of skin grafting is done by grafting and healthy skin from a thigh region of the same patients and then stitching over the wounds. This is a time consuming process and the healing takes like 2-3 months and the patient should be hospitalized for that time. But with skin spraying what we can do is a time size skin can be sufficient to cover a larger wound where we cut it into small pieces with this called mincing of the tissues and mix with the solution and spray over the wounds using the skin spray gun. The device has been patented and it is issued to government grants for the development of this and also issued a recognition from Ministry of Defense for the Innovations. In the impact what this device will have is the dependency on cadaver skins will get reduced especially this will be helpful in ruler set ups where the facility of skin banks are not able as compared to a metrocities. Moving forward my plan is to take this to the bottom of the pyramid people who are the most affected because of burns. I am Misfit and I want to build the future.


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All righty, welcome back. Okay, our next speaker lives in Atlanta, got on I-85 and just headed west until as Tesla ran out of charge. So we plugged it in in front of Major Hartnett's house, he's on the let-ex staff, they are full service here. True statement, I know, right? Andy Christensen is a founding partner of Capacity Seven and Certified Life Coach and FYI next year who'll be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. So I'm gonna bring to the stage now. Andy Christensen. Woo! Woo, let-ex! Hey, you know what time it is? It's fourth quarter. Fourth quarter of the football game. Right, this is where you, we find out what you've really got. Like it's time to apply some stuff, okay? And I wanna really encourage a segment of our population here, I'll let you know in a minute. In truth be known, the Tesla did not run out of juice, it just got very low. And that's trouble. If any of you are EV car users, you know what I mean. But to run out of juice is almost, that's a bad deal, it's like Fubar. You know what that is in the military. Okay, so what's radical about mentoring? I don't think mentoring's all that radical. I really don't, I think it's been kinda a little boring, a little bit outdated. Let's get the clicker and we'll show you how that plays out. And for example, is it radical? I mean, what do you think? I think as I would point out, it's a little bit OCD. It's a little bit outdated, it's a little bit complicated. And it's a little bit dull. In my opinion, it's a need of a refresh. We need to get to the next level, the next generation if you will. Something needs to change. For example, some of you that are younger here, Centennial's millennials, you'll know what TIL means. Today I learned. And so I put that as an acronym. What if it could be more true, more inspiring, more life changing? Does that make it a little more radical? Starting to lean in a little bit more. But what if, what if the next generation could get this? And if you're in that next generation here, if you are 18 to 38, Centennial's and or millennials, it's time for us to get serious about this. It's time for you to get serious about this. Because in some ways, my generation and above, we've kind of got an F. We've kind of failed you a little bit. And so we're gonna talk a little bit about that. So do you mind if I take off the jacket? Cause we're gonna get serious about this, all right? And sometimes this can look a little too formal. But it's time to get to work. And I only have a few minutes here to inspire you to get to the next level. So let's look at it this way. In that generation, two generations really, Gen Z and Gen Y. They are, or you are if you're in that age group here, the most educated generation in the history of the world. Do you believe that? The history of the world. So large metropolitan areas in the United States and cities around the world have 50% or more college degrees. That's a lot of knowledge and information. Is it not? And as well, the most connected generation. What do I mean by that? Well, on average, the 18 to 38 year old has 250 friends. Compared to 25 friends 50 years ago. Now I know, okay, some of those are Facebook, Instagram, I get it. But you're still connected. They're still connected to those people. And that can bring benefits and dividends to help influence and change this world. And this is the most passionate generation. They desire social change like we've never seen before. But they're kind of stuck in a construct that's tough to work around. So what I suggest is that you've been dealing with false hope if you're in that generation. False hope that we are coming, that Calvary is coming. And like I said, I think, sorry, baby boomers. We kind of get an F on being available and being intentional with mentoring. Now there are a few of us that are out there. So God bless you, but there just aren't enough. So what's the solution to that? I say to you Centennials and millennials, it's time to take back control. Well, gosh, I'm only 23, Andy, what do you want me to do? How can I go mentor people? Well, I do a podcast with a 21 year old and I learn as much from him as he learns from me. Wait, what? You do a podcast with a 21 year old? Yeah, I'll show it to you in a minute. And it's amazing. What we get to do together, we're modeling what seems so hard for other people. As well, I think if you initiate, and that's what it really comes down to, initiate. You have to initiate the things you've learned here at Leadx. You have to start thinking, what am I gonna do different? And hopefully with what I'm telling you during this talk, what will you do? You have to be deliberate. So what is mentoring? That word, man, it's got a lot of baggage. And when I first wrote my book, I didn't call it mentoring, I called it the 40 40 principle, but inside I described it as strategic advisors because mentoring was, it was overhanded, it was heavy handed. It was almost like controlling, but I believed in the concept so much because it helped me in my life. So then millennials come of age and they're like, you ought to rewrite that and use the word mentoring. So we did. So it does have some baggage, change the name if you want, but it goes sideways, it goes up and down, it can go all around. Don't put too many restrictions on it. Just be intentional about learning from other people. And what I'm saying is, I want you to be intentional today to go get interested in other people, to be the initiator, to ask that person, tell me your story. Hey, I have a few questions. Could we grab coffee? Could we grab breakfast? Could we grab lunch? Just get interested. It's better to be interested than interesting. Have you ever thought about that? We're all trying to be interesting. Some of the most interesting people are the most interested. So what if you don't do this? No harm, no foul, right? Well, if nothing changes, nothing changes. You've heard that. So be the change agent. We heard Jeff DeGraft say that this morning, this generation is primed 38 and younger to go make a significant difference in the world. I've heard that almost with every talk here so far to that degree. What I'm asking you to do, quite simply, and then we're gonna get out of here. Wait, that's it? You're just gonna ask us to do one thing? Yes. Co-mentor someone. Initiate. Well, what's co-mentoring? It's making this thing as simple as possible. For example, there's a guy by the name of retired Colonel Bill DeMarco. I don't know if Bill's in here, I can't see. But he and I met at a conference 15 years ago and it looked something like this. We're at Phillips Arena and we had this mentor booth up. It was a gathering for leadership, 20,000 people, Atlanta, Phillips Arena. You get the picture and we have this booth called Mentor Boot Camp. We're gonna train people how to mentor. And so we're over here and people pour out during breaks and they're kind of marching along and they see this booth kind of peripheral and then they get a good look at it and they all just kind of instinctively do this. I'm like, wow, we're really scaring these people because we were camo and camo nets and they get back in line and they walk down the hall. And it would happen consistently.  And then here comes this guy with another guy. What's this? What you doing? This looks awesome. Can I sign up? Where do we go? How do we pay? What do we, what is it? I'm like, wow, I like this guy. He's a man of action. So that was Colonel DeMarco. He shows up for the event. A lot of people would sign up and not show up. Not Bill. There he is. And he brings a friend with him. And we start this kind of geeky leadership connection because we both love leadership. We start talking about it. And years later he invites me over to Milden Hall to speak. And it was fantastic. And I said, hey, have you ever thought about doing some exploratory work with some of your team members? He's like, what's that? I'm like mentoring and coaching and all this stuff. And he said, I'd love to hear about it. So we tried it with six of his guys and it was fantastic. They loved it. So we decided to spread it out. And he invited some other people like Jason Wamek, Helena Kim, into the mix. And they started doing some of the same type of work. And he started to realize there's something here. And then he moves over to the United States. And he's back here at Air University. And he's just enough of a troublemaker to keep this stuff going. Thank God for him. And he invites more people, more academics into the mix. And it starts to grow. And he starts leaders by design. And leaders by design hits. And it's on a waiting list. And people loved it. And then I asked one day, I said, Bill, where did you have a reunion? How cool would that be? He's like, that's a great idea. Let's get some more people involved. And we started talking about, what would it look like to bring people back to Air University? Guess what it turned into? Latex. You get some good minds together. But what's my point? Two guys connecting, being intentional, OMG. What could you be creating? Maybe you already are. But what more could you be creating to get more smart people into the mix? As iron sharpens, iron sodas, one person sharpened another. Two are better than one, right? One falls down, the other can get back up. There's a better return on their investment. Strength in numbers. You've heard all the phrases, but are you doing it? Are you being that change agent in your world? That's the message in a nutshell. And on top of that, oh, by the way, there's that handsome guy, Bill DeMarco. And there's one of the first leaders by design group. And of course, that's latex. So the challenge I leave you with is to simply write a name down. I mean, come on, it doesn't get much easier. Well, simpler. It doesn't mean it's easy. Who are you thinking about that you could go initiate a conversation with? Just say, I'd love to hear your story. I've already set this up with two people here since I've been here. Hey, I just want to hear your story and see if it grows into something. The last thing you want to do, please don't do this. Hey, you look like somebody that could use me as a mentor. Want me to mentor you? Or you mentor me? I'm like, whoa, that sounds like heavy duty. I don't know about that. I got a lot more questions than answers. But a conversation, a cup of coffee, easy-peasy, powerful, dynamic. So if you haven't written somebody down, think about it. Write them down. At least put a date down when you will. So I want to be a part of the solution for you. I've written this book. It's back in the book area. If you want to copy, grab one as well. I want to show you something else we put together because I was at a conference three weeks ago. General Dunn was the keynote. I spoke the next day. Everybody mentioned mentoring. I'm like, gosh, you guys are setting me up really good. And then I spoke on the topic. But people walked up and they said, hey, really like we had to say, but we need some resources. Do you have any resources? Well, you have a book. Now, is there a guide? Is there a course? And I'm like, am I an idiot? Why have I not created this stuff yet? I've been doing this for years. So out of that event, we have created this tool that goes live today. It went live this morning. You can sign up for a mentor course.  You just want to influence another person. It's just good stuff. How can I be a mentor, an influencer, for positive change? Quite simply put. You can find it here. You can sign up in the book area as well, if you want. And this is the podcast. So Instagram, if you want to stay in touch, I'd love to hear from you. DM me there. Or the podcast is overwhelmed. How to overcome being overwhelmed. And again, that's myself. Over 50. Jojo, 20-something. Joseph Jacobson. And we toss around how to become purposeful. The last one we just did Sunday night, I think it went live on Monday, was all around. I said, hey, I want you to interview 20-somethings. Interview your people and find out what's overwhelming them. And he came back with this data and we tossed it around. It's fascinating. It's fascinating. So one of the people that I think models this so well, and unfortunately, we lost him a couple weeks ago, Kobe Bryant, I've been following him as a virtual mentor to me for about three months. And so when that helicopter went down, I almost felt like I lost a friend. Because I've been getting to know him. He's a really good motivator. If you want to Google anything like Mamba Motivation, Kobe Bryant, really pretty good stuff.  But one of the things he was really good at was giving to others. And that's what I'm asking you guys to do, is take some time and give. And one of the best ways to give is to just listen to people. That's all you need to do. Ask good questions and listen. So do you know Katie Lou Samuelson? She's a Yukon basketball player. Well, he befriended her because he loves Yukon. She went to a camp and he said, hey, Katie Lou, have you seen the film from the game you lost and know her name? She's like, are you kidding? It's too painful. I can't do that. Ugh, like pain in the heart. And he said, no, you have to. You must because if you don't, if you don't, you're never going to learn. And you're not going to get better. Do you think you'll ever faced know her name again? She said, yeah, probably. He said, I just can't do it. This is Kobe. Kobe says, you know what? What are you doing tomorrow? I'm sure he was a busy man. What are you doing tomorrow? Well, okay. So they sat down and watched the entire game replay twice. He pointed out footwork, what people did on timeouts, why they took the timeout. He was helping her think in a bigger way. He was truly giving and giving back. So in closing, I just want to play a short clip of what Kobe had to say when Louis Howes, who is a talk show kind of guy, Instagram guy, asked Kobe, hey, how would you define greatness? Kobe Bryant, take a listen. I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. Yeah, I think that's what greatness is or should be. It's not something that lives and dies with one person. It's how can you inspire a person to then inspire another person? That then inspires another person. That's how you create something that I think lasts forever. And I think that's our challenge as people is to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness. We lost a good one. So guys, I hope you've been inspired. And I would just ask you to take some time and go inspire some other people around you. Thank you very much.


Coffee number two of the morning. Good morning, happy Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday. I feel so thrown off, because I was just on vacation for the last few weeks and spending time with family and today's my first day like back to work and back into the routine.  I'm so excited to be vlogging again. I need to go get ready though because I wanna leave here in the next like 30 minutes. I have two clients today. Normally I don't take clients during the week. I usually just do hair on Saturdays, but because I've just been traveling a lot, I've been trying to take more people during the week to make up for the time that I'm away. So yeah, two clients today. One is a highlight haircut and then the second one, I think we're just touching up her highlights around her face, not entirely sure. I did her hair several weeks ago and she's actually about to move out of the area. So I think she just wants her hair like super fresh before she leaves and has to go find a new hairstylist. And then after work, I'm gonna stop at the grocery store and then Julia and I are gonna be recording our podcast. I'm so excited for that to be back as well. And we have a YouTube channel, we have video now. That's always linked in the description. If you guys wanna check it out, support, go subscribe to the channel. I would really appreciate it. That's the plan for today.  Okay, here's what I'm wearing today. These overalls are super old. I got them years ago on clearance from Urban Outfitters, I wanna say. But I've seen very, very similar ones from Amazon. So I'll try to find some similar ones and link them down below. But I love these because they're just loose and comfy and I just have a plain black cami underneath. And then I'm wearing my Doc Martens Blair sandals. And then my jewelry, I just got a couple new bracelets recently and this portion of the vlog is sponsored by Ana Luisa. Thank you so much to them for working with me. 98% of the jewelry that I wear on a regular basis is all from Ana Luisa and I'm always getting questions. Where do you get your jewelry from? Where's that bracelet from? Where are those earrings from? So if you guys saw my last vlog, I did an unboxing. I got this new cuff, this new flower bracelet and then this cuff, which is like that. This bangle I always get asked about, this is old. This, my mom gave it to me. This was hers like before I was even born. But the rest of my bracelets like the snake chain one and also Ana Luisa, I'm always wearing bracelets.  I never take them off. My ear lobe earrings are all Ana Luisa as well. I love these little hooks and these studs. I keep those in 24 seven, but I really love these new pieces that I got. I've had them on all week on my vacation. I swim in the ocean multiple times. I was in the pool, wore them in the shower. Like I like jewelry that is good quality and is gonna last me and is gonna be like sweat and water resistant because I like to just have my staple pieces that I can leave on all the time and not have to worry about them. I still have pieces from Ana Luisa that I got back in 2020 that I still wear that still look brand new and they've been gradually adding more and more silver pieces as well. So if you're not a gold jewelry kind of person and you prefer silver, they also have silver options. But yeah, if you're just looking for jewelry that's good quality, but isn't crazy expensive, definitely check out Ana Luisa. Their jewelry starts at $39.   Thank you so much Ana Luisa for continuing to work with me. That's what I'm wearing to work today. I need to head out of here. I will see you at the salon. This first client had very, very grown out hair and she wanted a full head of blonde. She said she really liked the blonde color that she had on the ends. So she just wanted to bring that up but keep it very blended, rooted, low maintenance but still nice and bright around her face. So I did a full head of foil. As you can see, it was a lot. And for her root tap, I did 7M from RedkenJZQ and then 9Gi with 9N for her all over gloss and this was her final hair. And then my second client, I forgot to get a before clip of her hair but you can kind of tell she was just like a rooted blonde. Like I said, I had did her hair a few weeks ago. So I just added some more highlights throughout to bring the blonde up higher and make it nice and fresh and bright. For her root smudge, I did 7M again and then 9V with 9N was her all over gloss color and this was her final hair. Oh my God, it's so humid in here. Just finished with my clients. I am exhausted. It's almost 530, that was six hours and then cleaning up like six and a half. You hairstylists or servers, anyone that works a job or nurses, doctors, anyone that works a job where you are on your feet the whole time and you work like 12 plus hour shifts at a time. I really don't know how you do it. I usually just do like six hours at a time and anytime I go over that, I feel dead. Oh my God, and it's really just blow drying that like kills my back and my shoulders. That's the part that I hate the most and I feel like that's the most exhausting part. Like I could foil and apply color all day, every day and be fine, but blow drying, no. But my clients both went really well. Their hair turned out beautiful as you saw but they both had a lot of hair. So I am tired. I was gonna go to the grocery store after work but right now, I just don't feel like dealing with it and especially this time of day, I feel like the store is gonna be packed and there's probably gonna be a lot of traffic so I just wanna go straight home so I actually ordered delivery so that way hopefully it'll get there shortly after I get home because I have no groceries at home. I'm also just not in the mood to cook or do anything. I wish I had factor but I don't at the moment. So delivery it is. Oh and we were supposed to record the podcast when I got home today but we're not doing that anymore. Julia's on vacation right now with her family so I'm gonna just do a solo episode and I'm gonna record that tomorrow.  It sounds like lovely evening. Good morning. I just got my grocery order. Like I said yesterday, I was supposed to go to the grocery store and I was just exhausted, didn't have it in me. So I placed a delivery and I scheduled it to come this morning and it just got here. God bless, honestly. I love that we have this as an option and that I live in a place where this is possible because where I lived before in my hometown we were like up in the mountains and this just wasn't even an option. Let's do a quick little haul. I didn't get like too much stuff. I just wanted a few things to kind of hold me over until I can go and do like a full restock. Got some mini ice cream sandwiches. Got some green onion, mini cucumbers, got some frozen vegetables, broccoli stir fry and this is Parmesan garlic, roasted red potatoes and green beans. Got some ollie pops. These are so good, the strawberry vanilla. Oh my God, I need to clean my fridge so bad. Then we got some blueberry English muffins, my babe salmon filet, bananas, a red onion, grape tomatoes and some spring mitts and that's everything. So I'm gonna put this stuff away, make myself a little breakfast, finish editing the podcast. Oh, I don't know if I said I ended up, we decided that I was gonna just record a solo episode cause Julia's on her family vacation and she said her sister's babies were being super fussy and like would not stop crying. So it was just too noisy for her to record so I was like that is totally fine. I can record a solo episode. So I did that last night. So I'm just gonna edit that and then I wanna go work out before I have to leave for work because then I am working front desk later this afternoon doing closing shift and that is it for today. Tomorrow I have the day off so I'm looking forward to that because it'll be nice to just have a full day to myself alone so I can like officially get caught up with everything. Like I have a lot of laundry I wanna do. I still haven't fully unpacked my bag from Florida. I wanna clean. Just gotta get through today first. Oh yeah, happy Thursday. It's several hours later. I'm getting ready to leave. I need to leave here in the next 10 minutes. I got the podcast edited. I scheduled it to go live, filled out the description, got our Instagram post for tomorrow ready to go. If I know that I have to go into the salon for work I try to have like my salon days and then my like social media work from home days be separate because I feel like once I get in the zone with stuff I'm doing on my computer it's really hard for me to step away from that and pull myself out of it. And then I just don't feel like being social. Like I just feel so like disconnected from the outside world because I'm so sucked into what I'm doing on the computer if that makes sense. But you know, because of this week and being on vacation and stuff I have a shorter week so I have to kinda like squeeze more in to less days. It is what it is. Hello, happy Friday. Today I have the day off and it's already, oh I don't know, the time we're going. What time is it? It's already 1.30. So I spent the morning doing like a little bit of computer work. A new podcast episode went up today so I was working on that. And I made us a new profile photo logo kinda thing that kinda goes more with like the rest of our theme on our Instagram. And now I just started doing a little bit of cleaning up. That's really like mostly what I want to do today work out at some point and just straighten up the apartment and get fully caught up. So I just put all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher. I have that running. Now I'm about to put some laundry to wash. So let's strip these bed sheets. It's several hours later. I just got back from the gym, shower and I totally forgot that I had my plans with my friends to go to dinner tonight. So I didn't finish all the cleaning that I wanted to do but that's okay because I can either finish that tomorrow when I get home from work if I feel up to it or I'll have off on Sunday and I can just do it then. But I don't really feel like wearing a bunch of makeup tonight because we're just going to dinner and it's just gonna be my girlfriends and we're not like going anywhere fancy. We're going to a Mexican restaurant which I'm so excited. I love Mexican food and I love margaritas and I am really looking forward to having one. So just moisturizing, did some brow gel concealer under the eyes because these dark circles are in pens right now. And I'm gonna do a little bit of this milk lip and cheek tint in the shade Quickie. I'm just gonna blend that out with my fingers. I'm gonna put that on my lips as well. I like to just tap it because then it doesn't add as much color. Then I'm gonna take the Too Faced Lip Injection Plumping Gloss put that on top. I love this combination. And then I'm gonna do a little bit of mascara. This is the Thrive mascara, like the liquid lash extensions. And some perfume, Ambry Saffron from dossier as always. And I just select my hair back in a little pony. I'm gonna put in some hoop earrings. Just add like a little something. Then I will show you the rest of my outfit. Here's my outfit. Don't mind the clothes on the bed. I still need to make my bed and put that stuff away. I'll deal with it when I get home. But I'm wearing this one shoulder top from H&M. These pants I've had for a while. I got them on clearance from Airy. And then I'm wearing these flat sandals from Target. I'm so happy that I got these. They were super cheap and I've been wearing them a ton. And I put in these chunky hoops from Ana Luisa. I think these are called the Abbey. So yeah, that is my look for our girls' dinner. Good morning. We had a lovely dinner last night. It was very laid back and chill. And I completely forgot to get any clips. Because I hadn't seen my friends in a couple of weeks. So I feel like we just had a lot to catch up on. And we all had gone on vacations since the last time we saw each other. So we were just getting all caught up on that. The poor waitress had came by multiple times to take our order and we were like, oh, sorry, we still need some more time because we hadn't even looked at the menu yet because we were just so occupied talking. And now it's Saturday morning. I am getting ready to go to the salon. I'm gonna literally do the exact same thing that I did last night as far as like hair and a little bit of makeup because I am actually getting a keratin treatment on Monday. So she's gonna have to wash my hair before she does that anyway. And my hair is just a greasy mess right now. But I feel like there's no point in washing it. So ponytail it is. Today I have three clients. I was supposed to have four, but one canceled a couple of days ago. And I honestly was a little bit relieved because she's great. I've done her hair once before, but I was double booked. And that's kinda tricky to do when you're working by yourself and you don't have an assistant or anyone to help you between like having less availability and then also just getting really booked up. I've been super busy, which is a blessing. I'm very grateful. But as a result, I've been having to take clients during the week some days and double book myself. But at my salon, all of the other hairstylists work during the week and then on Saturdays they do weddings or if they don't have a wedding to do, they just take the day off. And they all have assistants during the week. My coworker who's gonna be doing my carriage and treatment on Monday is actually an assistant at the salon. And I'm kinda thinking about maybe seeing if she would be interested in assisting me on Saturdays. Maybe not every single Saturday, but like one or two Saturdays a month. That way I can like fully just double book and just stack up clients on those days. And honestly, that would be so nice because now the most clients I'll take typically in one day is like four. But I would say like on average, I usually do anywhere between like two to four in one day. A lot of the clients that I have get color, like it's very rare that I will have just a haircut. Most of my appointments are anywhere between three to four hours generally when I'm working by myself. So if I have an assistant, not only would I be able to finish clients faster because if I have somebody helping me foil and helping me blow dry and style and all that, we could knock it out in like half the time. But also I'd be able to take more clients because while I'm doing foils on one person, my assistant could be rinsing out someone else's foils and putting their toner on and getting them blow dried and all of that and like helping to move that along. That way I don't ever have anybody just like sitting there waiting for me. So yeah, I don't know. I'm gonna talk to her and see what she thinks. Cause I was thinking about also just trying to find an assistant of my own, but we haven't had the best luck. One of the other stylists there has been having trouble finding a good assistant and keeping one. So I don't know if I wanna deal with all of that. And I also don't know if I wanna go back to doing hair full time. I think right now I'm really just enjoying the balance of doing it part time. And if I can still just do like one or two days max a week of hair, but like be able to take more people during that time and make more money. I feel like that would be the ideal situation. Okay, I am ready. Like I was saying today, I have three clients. My first one's a highlight haircut. My second client, we are gonna do a clarifying treatment on her, which I need to stop at Cosmoprof on my way to the salon really quick and get what I need for that. But she had previous color done by someone else. And then she came into me like almost two months ago and we did a demi-permanent really dark brown color on her hair. And now she wants to just try to fade that color as much as possible and just let her hair grow out to her natural like dirty blonde. But she doesn't want to bleach it and do all that. Cause I told her that we would have two different options. We could either do like a clarifying treatment and just kind of gradually slowly fade the color over time and just let it grow out. Or we could do like a full on more intense color remover that works more like a bleach to pull the color out and lighten her hair. But there's no way to just go back to your natural color. Unless you did just like a direct deposit that's supposed to wash out after a couple of shampoos. But if you do anything that you're mixing developer with and especially if the hair's been colored multiple times already, it just kind of is what it is. So I told her we could lighten the ends of her hair and then I could put a color on top of that that matches her natural color. But the only issue with that is it's going to need to be like refreshed over time. She's gonna have to come back in to like re-tone it and stuff like that. And I think she just wants to like be able to leave it and be more low maintenance. So I told her with the clarifying treatment there isn't a guarantee of how much color to pull out. But it's essentially just vitamin C powder that you mix with water. So it's not damaging at all whatsoever to your hair. So you can redo the process multiple times. If you need to and you know, we can do multiple sessions. She said that that's the route she wants to take. So that's what we're gonna do. And it's very easy for me. And then my third client is just a haircut. We're just doing a trim. That's the plan for the day. Really quick because I have to take Benny out and then head out of here because I need to stop at Cosmoprof like I said. So I need to give myself an extra few minutes. But this is what I'm wearing today. This top is from American Eagle. This skirt is from Target as are my sandals. And I figure because I'm not doing any dark color or like crazy color correction or anything like that, I should be safe wearing light colors to work. So fingers crossed that I don't stain anything. Okay, I just got to the salon. My first appointment is supposed to be in 10 minutes. But I actually now have a station set up. So I don't have to, I had all of my stuff in like my little travel kit suitcase thing. So I would have to like take everything out of that and set it up. But now everything I have like a little cart with all my stuff in it. So all I have to do is pull out my blow dryer, plug it in and yeah, so that's nice. That saves me a little like prep time. But I stopped at Cosmoprof and I got some goodies. I got two packets of Malibu CPR. I'm only gonna use the one, but I figured let me just get two just in case. It'll be nice to just have. And then I'm gonna, I am commissioned at the salon. So the owner provides all of our products.  But then I'll just add to like our list of stuff to order for her to get more for the future. Because especially since I do color corrections somewhat regularly, it's nice to have these kinds of things. But I also got the UndoGoo shampoo. And then this I think is a newer thing. I don't think I have seen or no, I guess I have. I've just never used it. This is the Malibu Color Disruptor. So it's like a whole system. You shampoo with this, leave this on for like 30 minutes. Then shampoo it out with this again. Then do the CPR treatment. Leave that on, shampoo that out. And yeah, so I'm hoping that that will remove as much of the color as possible. And like I said, nothing gets mixed with developer. There's no bleach. So it's not gonna do anything to her natural color at all. And it won't be damaging. It's just like clarifying. I'm excited. I've used the CPR before. I've used that, you know, like the UndoGoo shampoo but the color disruptor I've never used. So it'll be interesting to see like how the whole system works together and what results we get. So yeah, we'll share the process. Let's go in and get set up. So my first client on this day had a grown out rooted blonde. And she just wanted to move the color up, get everything refreshed. But her main concern was keeping it really blended and low maintenance, because as you could see her natural color is really dark. And she felt like the way her color was currently, it was just not growing out as nicely as she would like. So I did little fine baby lights all throughout with a root smudge. And this was her final hair. It came out so beautiful. And then client number two, this was the one that I did the clarifying treatment on. So I wanted to show you guys pictures of her hair when she originally came into me two months ago. The photo on the left was her hair before when she first came in. And then the photo on the right was her hair after I had did the dark demi permanent color on her. So as you can see her natural color is quite light. So her roots were starting to grow out, but the color throughout was still quite dark. So the first step was to shampoo her hair with that clarifying shampoo. And then I applied the Malibu color disruptor throughout her hair, section by section, scrubbed it in really well. Then I put a processing cap on her hair and I let her sit under heat for 30 minutes. Then I mixed up the CPR treatment. I applied that to her hair. Same thing, processing cap left her under heat this time for 45 minutes. Clarify shampooed that a few times and then this was the final result after the whole treatment. She actually came out quite light. You definitely can still see the difference between her roots. She didn't get as light as her natural color, but I think for just one session, it came out pretty good. And the best part, no damage. And then my last client of the day, we just did a really basic, simple trim on her, but I just had to show you guys how good her color looked two months after doing it. She had not gotten it refreshed or touched up at all since early May and it still looked this good. Love it. This is how humid it is right now. My lens is completely fogged up. Oh my God. Why did no one tell me? I have toner on my head. Amazing. Cool. Okay. Anyway, I just got done. It's four o'clock. I'm gonna head home. I will talk to you when I get there. It's about an hour later. I'm home now, obviously. I made myself a salad, drinking my Alipop and I feel great. Today went really well. I am definitely tired physically, like my legs, my back and my shoulders. Definitely feeling sore. It's another reason why I'm like, you know, an assistant would be so nice because I love doing hair. I love doing color, but I really do not like blow drying and styling at the end. But yeah, it went really smooth. I had no downtime pretty much the whole day, but honestly I love that because then I get to finish sooner and I can just like, while one person's sitting and processing, I can work on the next person and I don't have to like sit around in the back waiting for them to process. Like I can just get through everybody quickly and efficiently. So I'm just gonna hang out on the couch for a little bit and then do some editing. Give my legs a little bit of a break. Tomorrow I have the day off and I don't have any appointments or anything planned. So I'm just gonna stay home and I'll finally finish cleaning. I really wanna clean out my fridge because it's been a while since I've like taken everything out and done a deep clean. I don't think I'm gonna vlog anymore the rest of today. So I will see you in the morning.