Tor is software and a network that enables you to avoid certain forms of network surveillance and communicate anonymously.
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Where can I find an equivalent of Torbutton for Google Chrome?
I enjoy the Torbutton I am currently using in Firefox, but Firefox is quite a resource hog and I am working in a virtual machine.
Is there a Torbutton equivalent for Google Chrome?
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Chrome + Tor + Proxy Switchy!
Chrome 7 keeps showing a dialog saying: 514 Authentication Required when I use TOR.
How I solve this?
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Connect through own TOR relay, make edge node traffic unreadable
I understand that one of the limitations of TOR is that whoever runs the edge node can read all the traffic running through it before it gets split up amongst the TOR cloud.
Lets say you were an ...
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Am I a spambot or is it just a wrongly configured Tor?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and constantly experience trouble browsing, i.e. extremely slow-loading websites. I'm fairly confident it's not just a network problem.
Sometimes I find that when Chrome ...
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Persistent data in Tor browser bundle?
What sort of persistent data is generated by bundled Tor?
I recently did an experiment using the Tor Browser Bundle for GNU-Linux. I created two directories, A and B, and placed an identical copy of ...
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Speed up FireFox when using TOR
After reading this question about surfing the web anonymously, I tried TOR with Firefox and it seems to be changing the original IP, but Firefox is really slow!
I have a good network speed, and I've ...
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Will tor encryption work on a public network?
I'm using a hotel's wifi service and need to send sensitive documents back home. A coworker has suggested using tor but I'm uncertain when and where the decryption takes place.
Is it decrypted at the ...
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How to “flush tor circuit”
On Windows I have used XBBrowser, which provides a custom version of Firefox suited to using Tor.
XBBrowser provides a button, flush tor circuit, which will setup an entirely new connection and exit ...
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Do you rely on Tor?
Tor is good for some amount of anonymity (nothing is perfect of course), but is there a specific task that you find Tor indispensable for? Surely one could follow the various tips that this question ...
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Detect Tor bridge inside my network
How could I detect someone running a Tor bridge inside my local network? I guess I could use a Tor client and try all the IPs to see if they work as a bridge. Is there a faster solution? Maybe using ...
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How can I install tor in the UAE?
I'm using Linux Mint 10 Julia and currently in the UAE.
I'm having trouble accessing a lot of websites so I want to install tor.
However the the domain is block and so the repo address of tor itself ...
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Secure linux distro that sends traffic through Tor
I'm looking for a live Linux distro that is secure and preserves my anonymity online.
For what I need, Tor seems to do the job – but such software requires configuration that someone who is ...
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Tor in virtual machine - 502 bad gateway
I'm trying to run Tor in virtual machine. It used to work, but now when I try to access sites I get "502 bad gateway" error from Privoxy instead of requested site. I tried fixing time to correct one ...
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Tor Browser and how it affects torrents
I have recently received a message on my computer stating that my Internet Service Provider has been monitoring my traffic and have recorded me downloading several torrents that they have marked as ...
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How do we configure another browser to use Tor? [closed]
How do we configure Google Chrome (or another web browser) to use Tor Browser?
By that I mean that we are using Chrome, but the traffic is routed through Tor (and thus anonymous).
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How many Tor exit nodes are there?
On average (as I do understand that servers go on and off the network, etc.) how many Tor exit nodes are there in service at any given time? (It is probably going to be an informed estimate.)
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TOR +Private School WIFI [closed]
I'm looking to use TOR on my private college WIFI, but I'm a bit concerned about whether the school can log my activity and/or see that I'm using TOR. The issue is that my college WIFI is set up as a ...
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How to run a program through Tor
I want to run programs from my ubuntu machine through Tor, without TAILS. i was wondering if this is possible?
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How can I use Teamviewer anonymously with TOR network?
I would like to be able to use Teamviewer anonymously to avoid revealing my real IP address while I access sensitive data on my remote server. The data being transferred is encrypted.
I have looked ...
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What is the difference between SOCKS4/5 and a pure TCP proxy?
Why do we need SOCKS if we could just use a TCP proxy system like TOR? What kind of advantages does SOCKS have?
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How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity?
Is there a way to ask tor/vidalia for a new identity, via the command-line, as opposed to mousing to the icon, bringing up the menu, and clicking the option there?
I'm running Mac OSX 10.6 and 10.7 ...
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What plugin does Firefox use to download from SourceForge during Tor?
I have Tor installed on my mac, and Tor-button installed on my Firefox (along with NoScript, BetterPrivacy, AdBlock, and RefControl).
By default, Tor disables plugins like Flash. From what I've read ...
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TOR hidden service - PHP or CGI - what is safely?
I want to setup TOR Onion hidden service with non-static pages.
What should I use: Php or CGI? What is more safely?
I don't want to reveal IP of machine - I live in China and I afraid goverment.
I ...
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Using Torsocks on Mac OS X 10.8.2
I used Torsock and usewithtor fine when I had MAC OS X 10.6, and didn't use it for a while. I upgraded to Mountain Lion a few months ago, and I tried to use it but no luck on it.
Output is following:
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Does the use of Tor makes additional encryption unnecessary?
I know Tor uses encryption to guarantee anonymity, but I if wish to guarantee the privacy of my conversations should I use an additional layer of encryption?
Can my home router or ISP intercept Tor ...
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Does using Tor prevent my ISP/sysadmin from seeing what sites I visit?
Does using The Onion Router prevent my Internet Service Provider or system administrator from seeing what websites I visit?
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Is content routed through Tor encrypted?
Are usernames and passwords that I type in while using Tor encrypted from the nodes? For example, I want to use facebook, but I'm not sure if my login information is protected while I use Tor.
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Forcing Tor to use a given IP address for outbound connections
I have a network card with 3 IPs on OpenVZ virtual node (device venet0). Let's call them A,B,C. By default, Tor opens outbound connections from address A. I want it to use only B.
In torrc file the ...
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Convert HTTP requests to SOCKS5
I'm currently doing some testing work with TOR and ran in to a small problem. Tor's client only supports receiving connections through a SOCKS5 protocol, but the applications I'm using only support ...
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Using Tor and IRC
How can I use Tor with IRC? I have noticed that some networks block Tor. How true is that?
I have a problem with flashing my IP adderss whenever I join a channel. Freenode provides a convenient ...
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How can I make Tor and Polipo run (and automatically restart) using launchd on Mac OS X?
I have no experience with launchd but would like to setup Tor and Polipo as a service that automatically restarts every 24 hours or so. How can I do this?
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How I could redirect all my traffic to the TOR network?
I need to redirect all my traffic to the TOR network.
I have just installed Vidalia, but I think that I have not correctly configured my Tor-client. I have a Java desktop client that has to access a ...
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tor on debian: how does the user fallback work?
I cannot get my head around a strange behaviour I observed on my Debian 6 system today. When I run tor, either via /etc/init.d/tor or directly via /sbin/tor, the new tor process drops its root ...
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Are images viewed on my screen while using Tor/Firefox combo saved somewhere on my computer?
If an image is not saved while viewing it in Tor, what happens to it when the Tor browser is shut down? Is there a copy/thumbnail saved somewhere, or a reference to it on the hard drive? Does a ...
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How to tunnel all traffic through Tor?
All I want is be able to use flash and javascript while using Tor (I don't intend to use it for torrents)
Normally, using flash with Tor is not recommended because firefox plugins run outside of the ...
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How to reload a request via cache in squid if URL is blocked?
I have a simple and pretty basic squid3 configurations in my home server. I use it in combination with Tor and Privoxy. I have defined privoxy as cache_peer in squid configuration and an access list ...
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tor: how to have different ip address for every page request?
I installed the tor bundle and at https://check.torproject.org/ it confirms that tor is working, and the page shows the tor ip address. I notice this seems to be constant.
Is it possible to get a new ...
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Tor + Public Wi-Fi … safe?
If I were running a virtual machine, with all traffic always being sent and received through Tor, would this be safe on a public Wi-Fi connection? Surely my traffic cannot be sniffed as it's ...
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how to check my new IP and location using TOR
I am running TOR on Windows 7. I would like to know my IP address after changing my identity. Right now the only option is to open a webpage with a service that shows my IP address.
Is there any way ...
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Tor and blacklisting
I'm studying Tor and its capability to provide anonymity and bypass censorship, especially when used by people of repressive countries.
I'm wondering about one thing. The nodes that are part of the ...
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Is Tor reliable on a Windows running in Oracle VM VirtualBox
A friend lent me her netbook, it runs ubuntu but fortunately she has VirtualBox where I can use Windows XP, something that I'm familiar with.
In a few weeks when I give it back I don't want there to ...
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Connect Chrome to TOR
I'm having difficulty connecting Chrome to TOR. I started trying yesterday. I started Vidalia and the TOR Browser and then followed the advice at ...
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SSH tunneling along with Tor
I've been reading about Tor and it's benefits regarding anonymity, but I've also researched its problems. If I understand correctly, when I access a website using Tor the packets are secured using 2 ...
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Using Tor behind a proxy?
i'd like to use TOR/polipo behind a proxy like below
ME --> POLIPO --> TOR --> PROXY SQUID --> WEB
Couldn't find how to do that. When specifying a parent proxy for polipo, it goes straight for it ...
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OS or router level TOR network setup
I like the idea of proxies and TOR, but I find their application limited when it is just an application specific proxy setting or a browser specific proxy setting.
I would like all traffic in my OS ...
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Connect to Freenode using tor
My proxy blocks the connection to IRC. But to my surprise freenode doesn't accept connections from tor network.
I added the onion address in Xchat as FreenodeOverTor in the network list.
I installed ...
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SASL authentication “fails” on Freenode / Tor, on irssi and weechat
I am following various tutorials about using Freenode through Tor. I have tried irssi + cap_sasl.pl, and also weechat, which has builtin SASL support.
The connection fails in following way on both ...
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What does tor NEWNYM in tor do?
Can someone explain to me (in layman terms if possible) what sending tor the signal NEWNYM does?
I have read in several blogs that it should improve performance and/or improve anonymity but I could ...
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Torbutton broke Firefox?
I'm using Firefox Aurora on Ubuntu 12.04. I wanted to use Torbutton for certain websites, however the add-on has been causing problems, such as constantly spitting out errors about it not being able ...
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GLIBC_2.14 for slackware 13.37
I am trying to run tor on my slackware machine and when I do I get the error:
tor: /lib64/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.14' not found (required for
tor)
So I run the command:
slackpkg upgrade ...
