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Ubuntu is an operating system which is based on GNU/Linux.

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Trying to config hidden service, but encounter folder permission error

edit: as an aside, that's an oldish version of Tor you're running, you should probably consider following the guide to use the Tor Projects ubuntu repos, as ubuntu tends to ship outdated versions of Tor … : https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html#ubuntu
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Do I need a firewall and or Virus protection software

Ubuntu comes with a firewall, called ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) which should suffice, it is a front end to the Linux iptables packet filter. …
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How can I have tor and tor-browser both installed?

The solution is to uninstall the dodgy tor-browser package and either use torbrowser-launcher from the Ubuntu package repos or download Tor Browser directly from the Tor Project website or one of it's …
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Should I change the timezone of my laptop to UTC?

The Tor daemon doesn't leak timezone, if it did it would split users anonymity sets. Relays shouldn't be able to distinguish sets of users, this would allow them to and would break some of the protect …
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http status code 404 (Not found)

It's trying to lookup a relay that seems to no longer exist, specifically whatever relay corresponds to the 58......88C fingerprint. It's possible that it does still exist, it just wasn't found on th …
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tor is not working in ubuntu 14.06

You're in the wrong directory. The screenshot shows you running the command from your home directory (~) but the file exists in your Downloads directory (~/Downloads). Either: run cd Downloads then …
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How to update Tor Browser

Download the .mar file and learn to use mar-tools to manually apply the update for each copy of your browser.
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Why does the tor daemon start automatically in Ubuntu/Debian?

Normally users would expect network services that are installed to start automatically, this is true for other network services under debian or ubuntu like httpd or sshd. …
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How to perform NAT Punching with Tor

The NAT punching properties described in the video, are those of onion services. These are a default property of onion services. Normally if you've providing a service that you want to be accessible …
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ENVError while starting obfsproxy

obfsproxy should be setup inside of torrc if you wish to use it with tor, it shouldn't be executed seperately. The managed flag indicates that the opening process will be "managing" it, in this case t …
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find needed details of my own private obfs4 Tor bridge

From the obfs4proxy README: The autogenerated obfs4 bridge parameters are placed in DataDir/pt_state/obfs4_state.json. To ease deployment, the client side bridge line is written to DataDir …
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Guard Nodes: how long is too long?

Yes, that is normal. The guard rotation periods were increased, and the number of guards chosen was reduced. The idea being that a passive adversary might want to run some percentage of Tor relays (g …
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tor v3.x in xenial?

I wouldn't expect to see it hit Ubuntu or Debian repos until strech becomes stable and jessie becomes oldstable. …
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Installing torsocks and apt-transport-tor in Zesty

There are, infact, available for Zesty: apt-transport-tor and torsocks are both in the 'universe' repo. If you want to enable the 'universe' repo, try this question on AskUbuntu: How do I enable the …
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How to use multiple profiles with Tor?

This won't work, given that Tor Browser ships with a specific default profile which it uses, and needs to use to operate properly, creating and utilising different profiles will cause issues. Instead …
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