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How to use Tor with Google Chrome?
From the Arch Linux Wiki:
chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE myproxy"
However as the wiki explicitly warns: this will be used for ...
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Torsocks vs Proxychains?
You should prefer torsocks over proxychains, since torsocks is intended to block potential leaks.
Especially in cases with tools like youtube-dl which might try to pass over execution to programs ...
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How to shut down a Tor relay
The default systemd/upstart script should handle a shutdown properly.
The only thing that special about a relay shutdown is that there is a grace period of 30 secs to avoid tearing down short-lived ...
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Download Error 404 while running torbrowser-launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. tor-browser-linux64-12.0.2_en-US.tar.xz.asc not available
After running:
sudo sed -i 's|self.language =.*|self.language = "ALL"|g' /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/common.py
Tor-browser downloads OK (Downloading Tor Browser for ...
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Fetching v2 rendezvous descriptor failed. Retrying at another directory
Your version of Tor has bug which causes this messages (see #21056). Version 0.3.0.6 has a partial fix. If you install this version there are high chances that the messages will go away. Currently the ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Can I install Tor by making source lists HTTPS
You have different possibilities to download Tor. Each comes with different advantages or disadvantages:
HTTP: This is the default method which is offered through the Tor website. Usually HTTP works ...
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How to specify ExitNodes in Linux?
GeoIP needs to be installed for Tor to be able to determine in what country a exit relay is.
You can install it using sudo apt install tor-geoipdb.
From the logs:
We've been configured to use (or ...
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Upgrading Tor on Ubuntu as a relay operator
how do I find out what version of Tor I am running?
dpkg -l tor
question how do I update Tor to a new version?
Update all packages installed:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Update ...
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Can't start TOR on freshly upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 (from 14.04)
As @Peter Gerber noted, that was an issue with systemd.
What I've done:
Changed symlink /var/run to point to ../run instead of /run
Added ReadWriteDirectories=-/run to /lib/systemd/system/tor@default....
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How to update Tor Browser
You could export settings and bookmarks by copying the files from somewhere in
Tor Browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default
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Tor Browser launching very slowly
Welcome to StackExchange! Based on the question from my understanding the application is slow because the gpg keyring is not connecting to a tor relay if I understand correctly.
There are multiple ...
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How to monitor traffic usage on a Tor bridge on Linux?
Take a look at Nyx. That is probably how most relay operators on Linux get their bandwidth and connection information.
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Download Error 404 while running torbrowser-launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. tor-browser-linux64-12.0.2_en-US.tar.xz.asc not available
The version of torbrowser-launcher in your package manager is too old. For it to work correctly, you'll need version 0.3.6. This specific bug was fixed in #661.
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Tor upgraded to 0.3.0.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but Atlas still says "Outdated Tor version"
Very frustrating. I updated to Tor 0.3.0.8 on Linux....and Atlas classifies this relay as "Outdated Tor version".
Surely this can be fixed?
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typical way to run tails virtualized on ubuntu?
Generally the virtualisation of choice is VirtualBox, see: Tails VirtualBox documentation
However, also heed the warnings. Tails do not recommend using VirtualBox for day-to-day use. It's there ...
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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.
If you're running a relay or ...
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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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tor v3.x in xenial?
As I understand it:
0.2.9.10 is the current stable release and will be what remains in stable releases.
0.3.x is the new stable and will be what it is included in the next stable Debian release (...
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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.
To enable it:
sudo ufw allow 9001/tcp #change 9001 to ...
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How to specify ExitNodes in Linux?
~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor
you need to go here and do the changes.
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Is it safe to pipe profanity through torsocks?
Generally speaking, if it works with torsocks wrapping it, it should be fine.
torsocks can cause some features to break but it shouldn't result in any leaks under normal circumstances.
It's hard to ...
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How to set up Apache2 hidden service?
Well, Quite Simple... If you do have one website - just set it up, check that it's working just by IP and make sure that your whole apache config has only one uncommented Listen 127.0.0.1:80 directive....
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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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Can I install Tor by making source lists HTTPS
Generally speaking, HTTPS is better than HTTP. But in case of the deb-packages it actually makes no sense at all : all the packages are digitally signed by the publisher's key. And - regardless of the ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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Weird htop output? (screenshot)
These are threads, this is normal.
They're not multiple instances of firefox but instead a single instance that has multiple threads created for it. This may be more apparent if you press F5 to view ...
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