Okay, fine, I'll do it.
I'll show you how to set up your very own secure browser.
The world's most secure. Seriously, it's amazing. But full disclosure,
I actually launched this product two weeks ago. The Network,
Chuck Cloud browser is the world's most secure browser in my opinion.
But I got a little bit of hate from that video. Not a lot of hate, but some.
Yes, I know it's chasm. I partnered with them.
I think they kind of know about it because they're hosting it. And yes,
I know you can host it yourself for free and that's why I'm making this video
because if you're not gonna use the Network Chuck Cloud browser,
I at least want you to set this up yourself. So yeah,
I'm gonna show you how to set up the product I'm selling for free,
which doesn't make any sense. , I know it sounds kind of stupid, like,
Chuck, are you gonna lose money on this video? I maybe. No. But seriously,
what I really care about is that you and your family and your friends and
whoever you know is safe when they're browsing online,
it's a wild place out there. And whether you use my browser or your own,
I want you to use this technology. It's amazing. I don't care how you get it.
So quick coffee break
And let's get started. Now,
setting this up is actually pretty cool and pretty quick. Then afterwards,
I do want to address some of the, I kind of hate,
I got real really just concerns around me launching my product,
the Network, Chuck Cloud browser. But anyways,
I wanna get you set up self-hosted so you can play with this.
Now I also want to address some of the concerns from the community about my new
browser, mainly around security, which we'll touch on that now.
If you did not watch the video where I demoed my new browser, go watch it.
It'll explain how this thing works.
And also I scared my girls with viruses in the process,
so at least go watch that the things I do to keep you guys safe. But tldr,
the Network Check cloud browser is essentially run on chasm workspaces.
And what we're talking about here is a web browser launched inside of a Docker
container and then streamed to your browser. That just sounds like magic, right?
And when you're done, you just delete the browser,
you delete the Docker container, it's all gone.
That's part of what makes it really secure.
Now this whole chasm thing is actually free.
You can install and host it anywhere.
Now I'm gonna show you how to put it in the cloud,
specifically our sponsor LE Node Cloud Computing by Akamai. But seriously,
LE Node is awesome. I use 'em all the time for everything.
And they work perfectly with Chasm.
So go ahead and check the link of the description.
If you click that link and you're new to LE Node,
you'll get a hundred dollars credit for how many days? Oh, 60 days.
So testing out Chasm right now will be free for you if you're new.
So try it out. So once you're logged into LE Node,
go ahead and click on Create and LE node, think and Love Le Node,
we'll choose our image. I'm gonna go Ubuntu 2204 region, somewhere close to me,
island Dallas. And then our Lin node plan. I'm gonna click on shared cpu.
Now one thing I love about Leno real quick is that you can get a Lennox server
in the cloud for five bucks a month, which I do all the time.
So if you have another project in mind, this one's pretty cool.
But for our project with Chasm, we need the LE Node four gigabyte.
So we'll click that 20 bucks a month. Now, just so you know,
you're not paying 20 bucks right now or five bucks right now.
Whatever plan you go with, you're charged by the hour. So you spin this up,
play with it for like one hour, two hours, delete it. It's gonna cost you what,
3 cents an hour. So anyways, let's continue. I'll name it,
not network, Chuck Cloud browser and put a password in.
That's all we have to do.
I'm gonna click on create and take a little coffee break while it bruise up.
It'll take just a few moments. If you want to monitor while you wait,
you can click on the launch list console at the top right and you can feel like
you're in the matrix. Oh yeah, there it goes. Now you could log in here.
I don't like that. I like using my terminal.
So I'm gonna grab the S SSH access information over here. Just gonna copy that.
Fire up my terminal.
It'll also be Terminal and Mac and Linux and paste that command in there. Yes,
to accept all prints and then put in your password
or Ed. Now before we install, we gotta update our stuff, our repositories.
So we'll do a pseudo a P T update. This should be fairly quick.
Give us some time and then we're gonna grab this command and I'll have this
below. By the way, we're gonna paste this in just like this.
And literally that's all we have to do. Chasm takes it from there.
The they do everything else that's gonna take a minute.
So go ahead and enter and it's gonna do its thing for a while.
So do take a coffee break right now and kind of just, I don't know, meditate.
Watch the screen. It's kind of nice.
It also feels really cool like you're actually doing something when you're not
like, look at this, I feel awesome and I'm doing nothing.
Okay, mine is done. That took a little bit, right?
But here we are and here's how you access your stuff. And I'll go to LA Node,
I'll click on network, A network tab right there.
And then what we want is right over here, reverse DN s.
Just grab that address right there, copy it, go up to your address bar,
type in https, s colon, wack W, and off to the races.
Go ahead and continue. Proceed. And here we are.
Now your login info was in the command line in your terminal.
If you scroll up just a little bit, you'll see Chasm UI, login credentials.
You'll have one for a user and one for the admin.
We'll probably want the admin right now. I'll grab the password,
memorizing that super complicated.
Username admin at chasm dot local and paste in the password log in.
Now I'm not gonna cover the ins and outs of Chasm.
I have a previous video on that. What you care about is a secure browser.
Right now we're on the admin, we want workspaces.
So click on workspaces and we're here. Pick your browser, whatever you want.
Let's click Brave Launch session. At this very moment,
a Docker container is being spun up,
a browser's being launched and it's here and I can safely browse, thanks.
And when I'm done, I can delete it,
not just like the Network shut cloud browser, the Chasm,
self-hosted option does have a Chrome extension.
If I go to the Chrome Web store Search Chasm,
you'll see both of them right there. Chasm is the one you want.
If you're self-hosting, you can install this. And once you have it installed,
you'll wanna peek at your extensions,
click on more actions and click on options to make a few changes. Here,
right here, the Chasm URL is something you wanna change.
You'll wanna change it to the URL of your server.
I'm gonna grab that from the top right here, paste that here and save.
And then one more thing here in Chasm, I'll edit my profile.
I'll go to the top right click on my little icon, click on edit profile,
click on settings and choose my default workspace image.
The one that will launch when I use my little plugin, I'll say Brave Done.
So now I can open any link our right clicking it and saying Open leaking chasm.
And that will open up inside my self-hosted secure browser.
So that's how you self post chasm and LE node and it's pretty awesome.
But it does end up kind of costing you more money.
You do have to support it yourself. And for most of us, that's totally cool.
Like that's awesome. But if you want something that's a bit more cost effective,
potentially has better performance and you don't have to support,
that's where the network Chuck Cloud browser might come in. And also,
if you don't wanna have to deploy all this, go ahead,
tell your grandma to deploy this. I don't know, she might be really into it.
Tell her to subscribe to me.
Grandma, go subscribe to Network. Chuck.
What are you doing?
Whether or not you self-host Chasm or you go with the network Check Cloud
browser comes down to cost and convenience. Like most things in life,
let's start with cost. So look right, right now,
this whole self-hosting thing that's not free. Yes, chasm is free the software,
but where you put it, that place is not gonna be free hardware,
internet storage, that's gotta come from somewhere. Sure,
you might put it on-prem in your home lab,
but you gotta already have the hardware. And yeah,
you could put it in the cloud, but the cloud's not free. For example,
chasm here, the minimum system requirements are two cores,
four gigs of RAM and 50 gigabytes of storage. S S D ideally.
So at minimum you're looking at the LE node, four gigabyte plan,
which is 20 bucks a month. Now you could go for a lower plan.
I would experimented with that. But Chasm said you'll want this at least.
And of course cost varies depending on where you go and what you have on prem.
And if you wanna self-host, if you wanna try this out right now, I,
I encourage you to do that. It's really cool and fun.
But also if you wanna try out the network,
check cloud browser for seven bucks a month, that's pretty cool too.
That's all I'm saying. I'm not trying to rob you guys,
it's just that hosting does cost money. And then I'll touch on this real quick.
The other side of this is convenient self-hosting. While it's really fun,
it's not convenient, it's not. You do have to have some IT skills,
which I'll walk you through here in a moment to set this up. Then let's face it,
not everyone can do that. Your average person isn't necessarily a nerd like us.
So think employees at a company or your family,
your friends who of course want to be protected but don't have the skills or the
interest to do something like this. So yeah,
you watching this video could set this up, no problem. I'll show you how.
It's amazing. You're gonna love it.
But not everyone wants to do that or support it.
You have to make sure it's up all the time.
You have to make sure it's accessible. Like if it's in your home lab,
how do people get to it from the outside? That's a whole thing. Not hard,
but it's a thing. But if you go with a network truck solution, my solution,
you get support, you, you, it's convenient. You get the whole thing.
All you gotta do is log in and use it. And that's nice,
especially if you wanna give it to your family or your, your employees.
Like here, just log into this and use it not here.
Follow 20 steps to set this up. It's not 20 steps,
it's gonna be like three minutes, but it's still a thing for people, right?
I can't even get my grandma to change her password. Now,
one more point on convenience. I can launch my browser for multiple locations.
Europe, India, south America, usa. When you self-host it,
you're restricted to one location, which might be fine for you.
Now one more thing before we set this up.
And this is a pretty big concern brought up by pretty much everyone and that's
security. How secure is the network shut cloud browser?
Like am I gonna track you guys and see everything you're doing?
Is Chasm gonna do that? No. No, we're not.
And shout out to IPSec who brought this up.
I appreciate him sparking this discussion. It's important Social security,
which by the way here is the network check cloud browser.
You can try out a free demo right now if you wanna know what I'm talking about.
Are we tracking you? No. When you launch that browser inside that container,
whatever happens in that container, we don't see it, we don't log it,
we don't log your activity, what you're doing anything. And when you're done,
it's gone. And no, we don't key log,
we don't screen record track websites or collect any kind of telemetry data.
Nothing your browsing activity, we have nothing to do with that.
But when it comes to user logins,
request for sessions like you wanna request a Docker container to be built up,
we do track that kind of application level of data and it's mainly for
performance and stability. Just make sure things are working well.
But it's also for medium requirements as a cloud-based service provider on
another cloud service, and in this case it's gonna be AWS and oci.
Now I'm sure for many of you, you're like,
can anything I do be traced back to me? And that's a good question.
Lemme show you this.
Let's say there's five users who have launched a browser and a container and our
solution,
there's a bunch of servers being low balanced and all kinds of stuff to make
this application work.
So the odds are that multiple users could be sharing the same IP address.
And let's say one of you, I'm not saying who , there's nobody.
I don't have anybody.
One of you used the network check cloud browser to access something illegal.
We wouldn't know about it cuz we don't track what's going on inside your browser
session.
Now sure this illegal activity may be flagged by a service provider like O C I
or aws and they'll say, Hey, who accessed this illegal thing? We'll say,
you know,
we're not sure because this IP address at that time was used by all these people
and we don't know who did it. So even if law enforcement did ask us for logs,
which we would give them because that's the law,
it would be difficult to trace back to any one person.
Now don't get me wrong when I'm saying this, I'm not saying, yeah,
come use the network shut cloud browser for illegal activity.
I'm not saying that in fact this system is not built for that.
And while Chasm has been operating as a SaaS for four years now and has had no
incidents with law enforcement,
we're not advertising the service as a means for illegal activity.
If you wanna do something illegal, this is not the product for you.
We cannot guarantee that you can use our product and do illegal things with
impunity or to not get caught. But when it comes to security,
anonymity and privacy, we have your back. Now if you're like, uh,
never shut cloud browser, it's not safe. I can't do my illegal stuff,
you know that problem doesn't go away whether you self-host or not.
If you're self-hosting, you still have your I S P to deal with.
Wherever you're hosting it at the internet,
traffic's going to exit somewhere and be seen by someone.
And if it's being tracked by law enforcement as a legal activity,
that can be tied back to you. So before we move on,
lemme just make sure I covered all your concerns.
And actually this guy posted a whole thing and he said You gotta respond to
this. And I'm like, okay, person can watch everything.
We don't busted Tour or Tails does the same thing,
but a free open source so is Chasm and Chasm has tour.
But I would say the network,
Chuck Cloud Browser and Chasm does a much better job at keeping you anonymous
and keeping your stuff private. It's not just a VM stocker container.
You could do the same kind of thing with Virtual box,
but it wouldn't be as secure.
You'd be using your own public IP address at your house.
I'm sure you could be using a vpn, but then they see what you're doing.
It's really all about who you trust. Cause at some point on the internet,
you're deciding to trust somebody.
Just a modified version of Chas run on Oracle. Yes it is. No,
I didn't invent a proxy. Yes,
kinda like VPN except VPN N doesn't make sure your cookies browsing history and
everything isn't saved inside a browser.
You're still being fingerprinted in your browser even if you're using a vpn.
Yes, it is safe for viruses like my girls learned, but not for privacy.
No, it's safe for privacy and yes, US laws will be obeyed. So again,
if you wanna do illegal things, don't come here. Not important. Not important.
And we covered this. Who I think we're done. Yeah,
I gave my kids trauma just for you. Remember that? So subscribe and like,
comment and all that stuff. And this guy's right,
you are putting your trust in me and Chasm. Now I wouldn't say I'm selling out,
I'm offering a solution.
You don't have to take it and I'm gonna show you how to do your own right now.
But at the end of the day on the internet, you're trusting someone.
Choose wisely. Now James Titus has a pretty cool solution. If you wanna do this,
you can. But if you're reading this, it sounds kind of complex,
like your average person will not do this.
Even most engineers and researchers don't wanna bother with this.
They want something that will work all the time. Again, at the end of the day,
I don't care what you do, as long as you keep yourself safe.
What I'd love for you to use the Network Shut Cloud browser. Yeah.
And by doing that, you're also supporting what I do and you're supporting Chasm.
But anyways, that's the video. Catch you guys.