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Custom .onion address

If you have used TOR you are all to familiar with lack of human memorable onion addresses. Recently Facebook has arrived on TOR officially with a hidden service address of fcebookcorewwwi.onion. So I started thinking; and thoughts went to into actions to create my own custom hidden service address. Using a program by the name […]

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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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Configuring & Hosting Hidden Services

Here are some simple steps to get you going with getting services you want to host under the Tor network hidden service. While they don’t seem simple up front they are. These notes are based on my own testing and using my headless tor proxy server setup. Requirements Tor installed Tor running Now my steps […]

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My Introduction to Tor Hidden Services

The tor network is a system of proxy servers that use multiple layers of encryption. This method is called Onion Routing and it was designed by the U.S. Navy for security and anonymity of its users. The goal was for agents and field reporters alike  to communicate and share information without being caught, and spied […]

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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 […]