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Simple Anonymous Browsing by riahmatic

  • 08:37:26 pm on February 3, 2008 | # |
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    I wanted to set up an environment for anonymous internet browsing and found it devastatingly simple in Ubuntu 7.10. Just install Tor, Privoxy, and a Firefox extension.

    Install Tor and Privoxy from command line:

    sudo apt-get install tor privoxy

    Open Privoxy config file:

    sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config

    Add this line to end of the file and save:

    forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

    Start both services:

    sudo /etc/init.d/tor start
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start

    Now you can install the Tor Button Firefox extension to turn anonymous browsing on and off with the push of a button. More details (like disabling logs) and things you can do with Tor in Ubuntu here.

     

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