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 around in the network, I found out that everything is much simpler than fussing with unreliable, in every sense, services, and that good people not only came up with, but had already done an excellent “onion” thing - Tor .

You can read how to put Tor in your “beloved” OS 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 come in handy):

$ sudo apt-get install tor privoxy

Then you need to tell Privoxy that it is not alone, 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 - configure FireFox to be convenient, and check how everything works.

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

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

Your IP is identified to be 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 an evolving code - it is not a good idea to completely rely on the Tor network if you need guaranteed anonymity.