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tor Anonymous 06/01/15 (Mon) 13:48:03 No.2

This thread is for general information on tor, what it is and how to get started with the tor browser bundle.

>how do I into tor?

You can start using tor within couple minuets if you like.

1. Download the tor browser bundle from the tor project website here https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

2. extract the archive

3. click the 'start-tor-browser' shortcut

4. optionally you may want to change the noscript add-on to block all scripts by default and allow them on a site to site basis when necessary

5. browse the Internet in privacy

6. see the tor LINKS thread for links to hidden service 'onion' sites that are only accessible over tor

What is tor? tor is a low latency, onion routing network intended to facilitate anonymous and censorship resistant communication with a focus on facilitating access to the 'regular' Internet in a way that shields your identity from the destination server as well as shielding your destination from your isp/someone listening on the wire. Tor also has a 'hidden service' capability that provides anonymity for both the user and the server. tor is a free software project and as such you are welcome to review, redistribute, contribute and fork the source code.

How does tor work?

For a basic overview in simple term I recommend you read the overview on the tor project website https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

what can tor do for me?

- tor can provide a level of network level anonymity when you communicate over the Internet

- if you are someone who 'has nothing to hide' but feels like hiding anyway then tor is for you. tor is one of the best things going if you want to avoid passive, bulk, corporate and government surveillance. Just use the tor browser bundle for your everyday web browsing, reading the news, shitposting on 8chan, shitposing in irc, shitposting in the comment section of news websites etc.

- if you are someone who has something specific to hide then tor could be an excellent tool in helping you achieve this but you will need to access what it is you are trying to hide, who you are trying to hide it from, what their capabilities are and what tor can do to help you achieve this. If your anonymity is a matter of life and death then you need to do your own research and seek expert advice, unfortunately there is no point and click tool that exists to guarantee you 100% anonymity 100% of the time.

what can tor not do?

- tor can not protect your identity if you tell people your name. So do not log into any accounts that can be associated with you, (if you want to be anonymous that session) do not tell people your name, do not post your post code on 8chan, do not post pictures of your dick in which you can see your face in the mirror

- tor does not encrypt your traffic end to end when using 'clear web' websites, so if you use a website that does not use TLS then your traffic will be encrypted while it passes though the network but not once it reaches the exit node where the last layer of tor encryption is peeled off, at this point you are in the same situation as when you use the website directly, if the website/service does not support encryption or if you do not use it then anyone listening on the wire can see what you are doing, this includes the exit node.

- tor can not protect you if you run malicious code on your computer, this includes viruses and malware , as well as malicious javascript and browser/javascript exploits. Whonix does provide a level of protection against de-anonymization in the event you get fucked this way, see WHONIX_LINK_HERE.

- tor can not make you smarter, don't be retarded.

- Is tor broken?

No. there are theoretical attacks that exist, these are well documented and well understood, please refer to the tor project website and documentation regarding the limitations of low latency anonymity networks.

Links for more info about tor.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en

https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en

https://github.com/TheTorProject

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf

Anonymous 06/25/15 (Thu) 13:35:16 No.159

Anyone familiar with the Max H. onion site that redirects you to dead links (refreshes every 10sec)? It has been a topic on fbichan and overchan but no new info regarding it.

Anonymous 07/08/15 (Wed) 03:03:43 No.196

Can how to into i2p be appended below this?

Anonymous 07/17/15 (Fri) 12:04:38 No.214

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Extensions not already included in the TBP are usually kinda despised, since they can somehow twist your online fingerprints, marking your traffic as unique or peculiar.

Anyway, I strongly suggest Policeman

>https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/policeman/

and its Tor Isolation feature (putting that rule on top or right below the default top rule)

Cross-site requests made from .onion to a clearnet site (even for seemingly innocent requests) can allow a LEA adversary controlling some exit nodes to correlate the traffic a bit easier.

Even fullchan is not entirely 100% clearnet free. gsspcln.jp (ad circuit), imgur/img.youtube.com requests (i.e. the Board owner has crafted a custom CSS linking clearnet resources) and so on.

Anonymous 07/23/15 (Thu) 12:42:54 No.229

>>214

i use refcontrol, https everywhere and https finder as those addons were recommended in the tor faq when i first started using it, and requestpolicy.

Anonymous 07/23/15 (Thu) 15:21:02 No.230

>>229

>requestpolicy

Doesn't have a Tor isolation ruleset; Policeman is incredibly more detailed than RP and among the possible alternatives (including uMatrix) is the only one with this ruleset afaik.

HTTPS everywhere is pretty standard, I wouldn't use refcontrol (rather, I would open links independently in a new tab, i.e. copy-paste)

Anonymous 07/28/15 (Tue) 20:52:53 No.301

>>214

so if I have javascript disabled, my add-ons won't be listed, right?

btw why does the Tor browser always remember my settings (except for when I update it… wtf) except for the exceptions to the cookies ruleset?

Anonymous 07/29/15 (Wed) 14:21:24 No.303

>>214

Wouldn't be better to use it just for hidden services, in order not to appear too unique? So using just to rules: Tor isolation on top and allow everything as second one.

Or just having it installed makes you appear more unique?

Kon!F2niyMPz9E 09/16/15 (Wed) 21:35:43 No.376

I understand if you feel the need to run Tor routed through Freenet in a virtual machine on Tails at an Internet cafe with a borrowed computer to be disassembled and wiped down after use so no trace of your 4chan session makes its way to the user data repositories to be sold for advertising purposes to fill your mailbox with compromising innuendo about your browsing habits as you use Web mail for some reason in front of someone very important who has an incentive to blackmail you or who is affiliated with the federal government which for unknown reasons dedicates a significant amount of focus to your online activities because you have something to hide and you have everything to fear because you're a Romanian immigrant who ran an anime porn ring in the Old World before getting busted by the secret police and using Tor routed through I2P in a virtual machine on Tails at an Internet cafe with a borrowed computer to be disassembled and wiped down after use so no trace of your 4chan session makes its way to the user data repositories to be sold for advertising purposes to fill your mailbox with compromising innuendo about your browsing habits as you use Web mail for some reason in front of someone very important who has an incentive to blackmail you or who is affiliated with the federal government which for unknown reasons dedicates a significant amount of focus to your online activities because you have something to hide and you have everything to fear

Anonymous 09/26/15 (Sat) 03:55:47 No.385

I use Tor for all my chan browsing now. Since halfchan doesn't allow that, I only post here. Simple as that. 8ch's hidden service is pretty good, and I don't have to worry about my university using anything I say anonymously against me.

Anonymous 10/22/15 (Thu) 04:48:50 No.430

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>>385

>only tor user stupid enough to use university network.

>attempting to scare intelligent people.

point at this man and laugh

Anonymous 11/15/15 (Sun) 17:47:45 No.443

Is there a way for me to do my online shopping in a Tor-friendly way other than using those special .onion shopping sites? Is there a way to use Tor and amazon, for example? Or will I have to compromise my privacy when I use sites of that nature?