Questions tagged [tor]
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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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How many Tor exit nodes are there? [closed]
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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How to use Wget with Tor Bundle in Linux
I'm a Linux Mint (Lisa) and Tor Bundle user trying to use wget over Tor. After following the directions I found here, all I get when running wget is an output file saying, "514 Authentication required....
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How can I make Tor route all my traffic?
How can I set Tor to route all of my internet traffic? So, if I want to use any program to connect to a website or send requests to it, is there any way that I can make Tor hide my IP at all times?
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Can I use TOR browser without using TOR network?
The TOR browser is a nice browser even without TOR. Using full on TOR seems a bit extreme to me and is beyond my patience, on the other hand, using a normal Firefox feels like yelling my canvas ...
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Getting internet to a protest
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but it's been in the back of my head for a while.
I am in Turkey, where there are thousands of protestors gathering in the street against ...
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Why NoScript isn't activated by default in Tor Browser?
I just noticed that the browser extension NoScript is not activated when you start the Tor Browser for the first time. This could be a high security risk because it can obviously expose the users IP ...
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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 can I tunnel an entire Virtual Machine through Tor?
I have a VM which I want to allow to access the internet only through Tor.
I'm using VirtualBox on OS X 10.8.
Thanks!
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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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Is there any way to hide my IP address in email headers?
I use Thunderbird to send email. My mail server inserts my IP address into the header of my emails. Is there a way to hide this? I’ve thought of sending my mail to the server through Tor but my server ...
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Is being a Tor exit node dangerous?
So, from my understanding, Tor redirects your requests over many other tor users. Eventually, it will be actually sent over the exit node, which can basically be any computer, also mine.
I hope my ...
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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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How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity in a Mac?
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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Configure Tor as a listening proxy server that I can connect to remotely?
I currently have the Vidalia bundle installed on my Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. Is there a way that I can connect to the Tor network through this computer from other computers on the LAN or from ...
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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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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 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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Running Tor relay on personal server: can this hurt?
I would like to install TOR as relay on a hosted personal server. I have loads of bandwidth that I don't use. It's not an exit point. Can this hurt my server somehow? Possible problems I'm thinking of ...
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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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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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Make .onion websites open with tor, even if it starts with http://
I want to start this off by saying that I do not involve myself in any illegal activity. I visit .onion websites for various, legal reasons.
Anyway, I want to have all .onion websites open with tor. ...
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Why does a Tor relay send more data than it receives?
I run a Tor relay. I have often seen that there is a significant discrepancy between the amount of data sent and that received. For instance, this morning log states:
Tor's uptime is 7 days 18:00 ...
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How to config tor to use a HTTP/SOCKS proxy?
My ISP has blocked the tor network. I cannot connect to the directory server.
How can I config tor through a HTTP/SOCKS proxy to make the connection?
I'm using ubuntu server without GUI desktop ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Does this mean that Tor saves private information?
I was going through my pagefile.sys system file (as I usually do) and found a few things of note. For example:
-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
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How to use Tor over Lan
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 with Tor. Now with following credentials Tor works fine with any SOCKS5 supported apps.
Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 9050
This laptop is connected with WiFi router (192....
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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 to run Tor as proxy for local network
I'm trying to use Tor as standalone socks server available for whole local network.
I've set up connection in my torcc file as follows:
#listen on all IPs
SocksListenAddress 0.0.0.0
SocksPort 9150
I ...
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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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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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Use proxy for remote connection
I want to connect to a remote computer using PuTTY, i.e. client and server; How do I setup my proxy and port forwarding settings?
And I'm using Tor for all my network, but something went wrong:
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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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Tor relay using Tomato Shibby Mod?
I'm looking to buy a new router (probably ASUS RT-N16), and I'd like one that I can setup as a Tor relay. I'm not bothered about using Tor myself, so I don't need it to make connections for me via Tor ...
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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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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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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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System-wide socks5 proxy
I am trying to get my server to run entirely through TOR proxy settings.
I have TOR installed it works when I do it from Mint's GUI by setting the socks host to 127.0.0.1:9050.
That way, all my ...
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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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Multiple identities at the same time using TOR?
I am scraping some websites with curl and I am using Tor to avoid sending too many request with the same ip. The problem is that my app uses threads, so if I send the packet to change identity to the ...
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Does Tor hide data from my company router?
If I use Tor at work, can my system administrators see my activity or is it encrypted? I realize that outgoing traffic to the ISP, etc, will be encrypted but what about to the internal router?
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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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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 encrypted?...
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How to create a Tor-only network interface suitable for Firejail?
The well-known but unsafe method is to use torify. It is unsafe because we ask an application to use Tor, not force it. If the application misbehaves or is being exploided by a bug,
it will still ...
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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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