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Are hidden services portable?
Yes, the .onion address stays the same no matter what network you're using to connect to the Tor network.
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Is Tor network traceable
Tor connections are in general secure.
However for a global adversary it would be possible to trace a Tor connection back to a user.
It is not known whether such a global adversary exists or if ...
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Does Tor protect against KRACK?
Yes, Tor is unaffected by KRACK.
At best KRACK could be used to perform some denial of service (stopping your packets from being sent), but it will not be able to forge or intercept Tor traffic, ...
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Run TOR relay with ipv6 only ("DualStack Lite")
You are right, it will not work. You need to have an ipv4 address. Only (full) dual-stack provides both ipv6 and ipv4.
DualStack Lite (very common in Germany) means you have only a native ipv6 ...
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tor outbound ssh connection visible in netstat
The IP address you posted belongs to the relay c4k3KS1. As you can see at the Atlas page it listens at port 22 for Tor connections. So in your netstat view there is no real SSH session, but a Tor ...
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How to use tor exit node and VPN to break through GFW in China?
I'm not familiar with Tor, but I suppose you just want to go through the GFW in China with a VPS server.(Hong Kong Server is ok)
Most people in China nowadays use SS(shadowsocks)/SSR/V2ray to get ...
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How to verify that my ISP is not running a fake tor subnetwork
The Tor binary contains fingerprints of keys for the directory authorities. These are used to then load the consensus, which contains key material for all other relays.
Unless your ISP has some new ...
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Does Tor protect against KRACK?
You're using wifi with a wireless access point that you don't control and you're worried about KRACK? If the owner of the access point wanted access to your network data then KRACK doesn't matter.
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Tor for IOT - connecting a microcontroller to internet through Tor - Arduino Tor
I released a Tor implementation based on ESP32.
I have done it for educational purposes and the code is in modern C++ based on IDF framework.
Lack of resources was an hard issue, however it works very ...
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Set up Tor as internal Network
My company is looking to use Tor internally for our network, using our own directory authority server, and would like to know if it's possible and how to do it
First of all, if your company have the ...
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Tails Tor not starting
Tails uses UTC time. But the time of most devices is set up to the timezone of their sale, which can be considered as de-anonimization.
What I usually do is manual explicit setting the hardware clock ...
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Configure for one hop only
The FAQ talks about this.
You should let people choose their path length.
Right now the path
length is hard-coded at 3 plus the number of nodes in your path that
are sensitive. That is, in normal ...
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How do i block websites in the tor browser, productivity filter
If you know the domain names of the websites you want to block, you can do this easily if you edit your Tor configuration file (the torrc file). You can read how to do this here: https://support....
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Obsf4 bridges with ipv6 support?
Unfortunately an old issue. Moved and closed several times but still not resolved:
Distribute IPv6 bridges through bridges.torproject.org.
BridgeDB so far only works for IPv6 vanilla bridges.
I have ...
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Are Tor connections *that* unstable?
Is there a way to enfource a new route towards my hidden services so I
can circumvent the peers that are failing?
From the Tor Project website, we see:
An onion service needs to advertise its ...
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How are certain websites able to override the specific exitnode you chose, and can a fix be made to stop it?
StrictNodes does not apply to ExitNodes. This is declared in the manual.
(StrictNodes applies to neither ExcludeExitNodes nor to ExitNodes).
Use MapAddress for doing that. Like this:
MapAddress ...
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cant connect to tor
Are you trying to connect using bridges?
If so try getting new bridges from https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?transport=obfs4 and make sure you paste the whole configuration line instead of just ...
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Tor for IOT - connecting a microcontroller to internet through Tor - Arduino Tor
It's hardly possible due to the lack of resources on board: 256 or 512 Mb of RAM is a requirement for running Tor and Linux image.
UPDATE: there're a devices like PCDuino - so they're a perfect ...
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Host hidden service without accepting incoming connections?
Yes it would work. You do not need public IP and ability to accept incoming connections to run hidden service.
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Private tor network set up
Chutney makes it easy to set up a testing tor network.
Is it any way to not publish my nodes to the tor authoritative directory so that I can only use it for my research purpose?
Yes. You tell ...
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How to submit suggestions to tor project?
To submit a suggestion or a feature request, then you should open a ticket on the Tor Project bug tracker at https://trac.torproject.org/
Before you do submit it, you may find that the changes to the ...
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Is it possible for the client to directly connect to an exit node?
No, you cannot use Tor as a single-hop proxy.
It was intentionally disabled in #1751 - Project: Make it harder to use exits as one-hop proxies .
In terms of security, you'd lose all anonymity.
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Is it possible to visualize (on a google map) the path a Tor client takes?
"bounce around the world" is not what makes Tor safe and private. It would be giving users a false sense of security. Vidalia used to do this and I'm still fighting against the false ideas it ...
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DHCPREQUEST: send_packet: Operation not permitted
You need to follow Whonix documentation for combining VPNs. Otherwise they conflict with Whonix's firewall.
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tunnels/Introduction
Should I be concerned or do anything ...
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IP address conflict
Is this due to the TOR browser? Does TOR configure the network within the modem/router, or is it individual?
No. Tor doesn't change your network configuration.
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Tor gets stuck at "establishing an encrypted directory connection"
You seem to be a victim of HTTPS/TLS/SSL attacks, try using Meek pluggable transport
UPDATE: A pluggable transport is an on-flight handler that masks Tor protocol and requests, so they don't look ...
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What's the correct syntax for listing multiple ExitNodes?
The right syntax in 2022 are for your sample, the follow:
ExcludeExitNodes {fr}, {de} StrictNodes 1
The follow should be more save. The additional {??} should protect you for Server whith unknown IP-...
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Tor browser limit download data to 657MB
How can I get over this ?
Try to re-download it.
Is there a hidden download space limiter in Tor browser that I don't know ?
No. Proof: I downloaded a 5Go ISO file without any problems.
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Will Tor remain effective after the reversal of the FCC's "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services"
Yes.
Tor already provided protection from a snooping ISP, since it intends to protect from any single vantage point from being able to deanonymize Tor users.
Your ISP will see what it already has:
...
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lost ability to connect to tor network
First of all, Firefox 40.0.2 has been considered unsupported since 2015-08-27 when 40.0.3 was released. There have been dozens of critical security issues since then. Firefox 43b9 isn't much better ...
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