tor + privoxy: anonymous browsing

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tor + privoxy: anonymous browsing

#1 Post by labbe5 »

https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/insta ... ntu-16-04/

Privoxy is available in repositories for Debian and Ubuntu. This means you can install it from PPM and with APT.

Privoxy is a piece of software which acts as a non-caching web proxy. A web proxy is a service that web browsers can use instead of connecting to web servers directly.
Even though web browsers nowadays have built-in features similar to privoxy, the proxy is a good choice if you use multiple browsers, or have a LAN with multiple computers since Privoxy can run as a server application. This way all the configuration is in one place, and you don't have to maintain a similar configuration for possibly many browsers or users.

Further reading :
https://github.com/persepolisdm/persepolis/wiki/Privoxy
http://check.torproject.org/ (click link to test if Tor is active)
useful commands :
sudo systemctl status privoxy
netstat -lntup (what ports are in a listening state)
traceroute www.google.com (all intermediary nodes can monitor our packets being forwarded through the Internet.) The use of Tor stops monitoring in its tracks.
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labbe5
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tor + privoxy: anonymous browsing

#2 Post by labbe5 »

http://tuxdiary.com/2015/04/10/tor-privoxy/

Install tor and privoxy.

It is better to have tor repository in your apt source file :

deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic main

Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages by running the following commands at your command prompt:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

You can install it with the following commands:

$ apt update
$ apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

Source : https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

You can find Tor in standard repositories, but likely an older version.

To help with configuring Tor and Privoxy, have a look at the link above.

Further reading :
https://sathisharthars.com/tag/tortunnel/
https://moxie.org/software/tortunnel/

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