riahmat1c » security http://riah.mat1c.org web technology and security Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:47:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Simple Anonymous Browsing http://riah.mat1c.org/2008/02/03/simple-anonymous-browsing/ http://riah.mat1c.org/2008/02/03/simple-anonymous-browsing/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:37:26 +0000 riahmatic http://riah.mat1c.org/2008/02/03/simple-anonymous-browsing/ 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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