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Facebook, and TOR hidden services

All I can say is … “Its about time” While TOR does provide you with the ability to be anonymous that isn’t the full extent of its use. There’s no reason to let your ISP know when or whether you’re visiting Facebook.  Same goes for Facebook’s upstream ISP, or some any other agency on the […]

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Monitoring Tor resource usage

A while back I wrote about how I setup a small yet effective Tor network proxy server titled “My Quick Tor Socks / Web Proxy“. After running this for sometime now I wanted to get some real time status, but more than that I wanted it to look cool. And this brings me to what […]

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My Quick TOR Socks / Web Proxy

I originally preformed similar steps to setup a raspberry pi for this reason, later using a very tiny Ubuntu server install. Using a clean Ubuntu / or / Debian installation (recommended, not necessary) add the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main to figure out the name of your distribution. A quick command to run […]

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Face blurring anonymity: YouTube

Whether you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or your children playing, or if your that girl who wants to put out a almost x rated shake your ass on camera and show off your fantastic body for others to comment on. YouTube is the place to be. YouTube’s face blurring […]

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.onion sites

.onion is a pseudo-top-level domain host suffix (similar in concept to such endings as .bitnet and .uucp used in earlier times) designating an anonymous hidden service reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the Internet DNS root, but with the appropriate proxy software […]