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Is it possible to setup a private TOR relay
I would think a bridge could be considered a private relay. You can even setup the bridge so it is not broadcast to the bridge authority. In that setup you would be the only person able to give out ...
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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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Google knows my language when I use Tor
It is probably coincidence. Germany has a lot of exit nodes. (Are you using the Tor Browser Bundle?)
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Why doesn't Tor browser block HTTP by default?
It's not enabled by default because it would block a significant fraction of the Internet for users. Blocking HTTP-only traffic will likely come in the future once Tor Browser is using a version of ...
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Creating private and isolated Tor network using raspberry pis
I would suggest you start with chutney enter link description here and see how chutney works by setting up a what you need which is: directory authorities, relays, exit relays and a client. Start with ...
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How to disable built-in Permanent private browsing Tor?
Not recommended.
Navigate to about:preferences#privacy and uncheck "Always use private browsing mode".
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Emails that work with Tor
protonmail is accessible through their own onion site: https://protonirockerxow.onion/
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Private Tor network, socket explanation
Also, why there is a UDP socket "listening" on my machines
I think it's DNS (you can add DNSPort 5353 option in torrc and you will see).
The problem is, i have unexpected and yet unexplained ...
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How to avoid your onion host privatekey to be stolen?
To my knowledge, there is currently no way to avoid that your key, at least for a short time, is on your server in cleartext.
However, the next generation onion services (V3) will allow you to do ...
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How to detect user using the TOR broswer using private/load balancer ips of AWS
There are a few things going wrong here.
You're not reversing the IP octets, so if this ever was "working" it only looked like it was.
You're using X-Forwarded-For which can be defined, arbirarily, ...
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Does it matter when you connect to TOR?
Somehow it matters, but not fatal. Here are your two cases for a start:
You have connected to Tor after using an authorized page. If your actions you do perform through Tor can be linked with your ...
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Using Orbot to mask network traffic
Technically this kind of thing can be done through a pluggable transport.
I'm not aware of anyone actually having done this specifically. It probably wouldn't work very well, a curious observer would ...
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How to set up tor private network without the simulator
You can do it by using multile Tor instances and virtual network+VLanS. Tor does not needs any "emulator" software: all the roles are implemented and running on tor binary
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How to set up private tor network with a chutney
You're missing an actual versions of Tor in your system, it's all in your error logs. You have basically/mostly two types of error:
binary not found - you're missing tor-gencert in message
Cannot ...
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Using socat through Tor socks proxy gives no response
I had the same issue trying use socat to run an application through the Tor socks proxy on Tails. I was trying this:
# socat TCP-LISTEN:1234 SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:remoteip:5678,socksport=9050 &
$ ...
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Noob:: would someone be helpful to be sure I am as private as possible?
You are running a relay. (If this was your intention, then thank you!)
Running a relay is not private / anonymous, it is public. Your IP needs to be public, so that other relays can connect to you to ...
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Google knows my language when I use Tor
It's probably in your HTTP_ACCEPT headers. See
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
If you can see your language there, so can other sites you visit. Mine says:
HTTP_ACCEPT: Headers text/html, */* gzip, ...
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Is it possible to setup a private TOR relay
You can replace your proxy with uProxy: https://www.uproxy.org.
uProxy is free, open source, and uses WebRTC NAT traversal techniques to allow peers without public IPs to communicate.
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Is it possible to setup a private TOR relay
It is not possible to run a private Tor relay, but it is possible to run a hidden service with 1-hop circuits and connect to it with a Tor client running in tor2web mode. However, you need to ...
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Is it possible to setup a private TOR relay
It is not possible to run a private Tor relay, where only you can use it.
If it is part of the network, other relays can use it to build circuits. (If it is not, then you can't use it either.)
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Does a Tor node "know" what layer of the onion they are in?
As already commented, there are only three relays a normal circuit goes through. The exit relay obviously knows it is the exit - because it is asked to make a connection to the outside world. For ...
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