Tor is free software and an open network that protects you from network surveillance by hiding your real location. This tool can be used to keep privacy. Recent news about agencies that make network surveillance threatening the privacy of people compels us to go anonymous.
Read more about Tor project here .
There are different methods to configure Tor and I am explaining only one of them. The project recommends to use Tor browser bundle but I am not going into it.
This is a step by step procedure to configure Tor client in your Debian/Ubuntu system. Sometimes your internet connection will be configured to block downloads from tor website/repository. The admins usually do this to prevent people from using tor. So in that case use data cards for installing tor and then connect to your network using tor enabled browser.
Step 1: Open terminal and login as root
sudo su
Step 2: Get your Ubuntu/Debian DISTRIBUTION
lsb_release -c or cat /etc/debian_version
Step 3: Open /etc/apt/sources.list as root and add the following line
deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org your-distribution
deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org your-distribution main
eg: deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org precise main
Step 4: Take terminal and then add the gpg key used to sign the packages
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
Step 5: Update
sudo apt-get update
Step 6: Use keyring to keep signing key current
sudo apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring
Step 7: Install Tor
sudo apt-get install tor
You have installed tor, but now you need to configure it. Start and enable it.
Step 4: Take terminal and then add the gpg key used to sign the packages
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
Step 5: Update
sudo apt-get update
Step 6: Use keyring to keep signing key current
sudo apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring
Step 7: Install Tor
sudo apt-get install tor
You have installed tor, but now you need to configure it. Start and enable it.
sudo systemctl start tor
sudo systemctl enable tor
Configuring Firefox browser for using tor is shown below (port 9050):
Done !!
To check whether it is working correctly, go to https://check.torproject.org/
The website will say whether the browser is properly configured or not.
The network traffic will be slow as it has to go through a large number of nodes.
Configuring Firefox browser for using tor is shown below (port 9050):
Done !!
To check whether it is working correctly, go to https://check.torproject.org/
The website will say whether the browser is properly configured or not.
The network traffic will be slow as it has to go through a large number of nodes.
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