Anonymous surfing

When I first encountered the problem of anonymous surfing, the maximum that I could remember was anonymous proxy servers. But after a little digging in the network, I found out that in fact everything is much easier than messing around with unreliable, in every sense, services, and that good people not only invented, but already made an excellent onion thing - Tor .

How to put Tor in the "beloved" OSes can be read on the above site, and I will tell you how to configure Tor in Ubuntu, so that it is convenient, beautiful and correct.

So, first you need to install Tor and Privoxy (it will be useful to us):

$ sudo apt-get install tor privoxy

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Then you need to tell Privoxy that it is not lonely, and you can use Tor. To do this, uncomment one line in the config:

$ sudo vi / etc / privoxy / config
/
9050
[Home]
x
:
wq

Restart Privoxy:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart

It remains to do two important things - to configure FireFox so that it is convenient, and check how everything works.

For FireLise, there is a tiny Torbutton plugin that installs and works very simply. One clue is to use “Use Privoxy” in the Preferences. And do not forget to restart the browser.

Finally, the last, most important step is verification.
To do this, turn on FireFox (by clicking on the onion in the lower right corner of the window) anonymity, and go to TorCheck , where, if everything was done correctly, something like this should appear:

Your IP is identified as a Tor-EXIT.
So you are using Tor successfully to reach the web!

Just in case, a quote from the site - And remember that this is a developing code - it is not the best idea to completely rely on the Tor network if you need guaranteed anonymity.