HOW TO surf anonymous

[stonymouse]

I tried this out and apart from it slowing down FF somewhat (like Torpark?), it works. I am however, showing an IP adress of 66.199.184.254, which it seems, has been banned from editing Wikipedia articles due to the possibility of it being a zombie computer... or a Tor open proxy address! Poo!

Thanks for the hour or so's worth of interesting reading to.

Jenny

[pkjm17]

Where in the /etc/privoxy/config file do you add "localhost:9050 ."?

[pkjm17]

In the /etc/privoxy/config/ file, where do u add "localhost:9050 ."?

[Stambo00]

At the end

[squidward_tentacels]

Awesome tutorial, However how exactly would you edit the configuration files to disallow certain exit points by IP address? Ive searched around the tor site and hidden wiki, for an answer but havent found one. My understanding of Tor is that you connect to a random tor node with each restart, but about half of the time I get the same exit node!

149.9.0.59 (or something else in the 149.9.*.* range)

OrgName: PSI
OrgID: PSI-1
Address: 1015 31st St NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country: US

NetRange: 149.9.0.0 - 149.9.255.255
CIDR: 149.9.0.0/16
NetName: PSINET-B-9
NetHandle: NET-149-9-0-0-1
Parent: NET-149-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS.PSI.NET
NameServer: NS2.PSI.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1992-01-28
Updated: 1992-02-03


Frequently using the same exit node out of Washington, DC really seems a bit....well,lacking....The only PSI out of DC I could locate (http://www.psi.org/) smacks of Government funding. Excuse me while I put on my Tinfoil Hat here for a moment, but are these really the people you trust as the endpoint to your "private" communications;

PSI Board of Directors

Frank Loy, Chair
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC

Rehana Ahmed
Physican
Nairobi, Kenya

Rita I. Bass
Chief Executive Officer
MEDIBANC, Inc.
Denver, Colorado

Frank Carlucci
Chairman Emeritus
The Carlyle Group
Washington, DC

Sarah G. Epstein
Population Consultant
Washington, DC

Gail McGreevy Harmon
Partner
Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP
Washington, DC

William C. Harrop
Former U.S. Ambassador to Guinea, Israel, Kenya and Zaire and Inspector General of the U.S. Department of State and the Foreign Service
Washington, DC

Adriaan Jacobovits de Szeged
Former Netherlands Ambassador to the United States
The Hague, The Netherlands

Ashley Judd
Actor/Activist
Franklin, Tennessee

M. Peter McPherson
Founding Co-Chair, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and President Emeritus, Michigan State University
Washington, DC

Gilbert Omenn, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Malcolm Potts, M.D.
Bixby Professor, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Mechai Viravaidya
Chairman
Population and Community Development Association
Bangkok, Thailand


So anyway, If anyone knows how to restrict exit nodes, that would be awesome

[squidward_tentacels]

Ok, Ive got it now Its really not to bad to set this up.
The easiest way Ive found is to begin here; http://proxy.org/tor.shtml and copy & paste a list of servers (by nickname) that are exit nodes, and in locals you wish to use into a text file. In my case I choose servers outside of the US, Germany, China, & Belguim.

For example "ExitNodes fioyaZ3iuthaihiera,molly,ChlenNigeraTor,Aioe...... .." and so on, I would also recommened going all the way down the list and choosing as many exit nodes as possible, as some may be unroutable/offline.

OK, once you have your list of prefered exit nodes , we need to edit the torrc file. When I tried to open this with "sudo gedit etc/Tor/torrc" all I got was a blank file, and an error when attempting to save, additionaly I crashed Tor, and had to "sudo apt-get remove --purge tor", and then reinstall it to get it working again, so you DONT want to attempt to edit the configuration file that way.

Rather "sudo nautilus" ,and then browse your way to /etc/Tor/torrc. The file will open and you will see many commented out configuration options for various aspects of Tor. What you want to do is add "ExitNodes YOUR,LIST,OF,PREFERED,SERVERS,HERE....." as in the example above, using the list you made. Then beneath that, make sure and add;
"StrictExitNodes 1" as this specifies only to use the exit nodes you have listed above. You may also wish to add the following to a new line "SafeLogging 1" If 1, Tor replaces potentially sensitive strings in the logs (e.g. addresses) with the string [scrubbed]. This way logs can still be useful, but they don't leave behind personally identifying information about what sites a user might have visited. Or I believe there was an earlier post that would effectively disable logging altogether. Make sure to save the file, and restart Tor for the changes to take effect.

I added those lines to the bottom of the file. You can also specify entry nodes in the same manner, or even servers that you never want to use as any part of the circut, and host of other cool commands, available here;
http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.html
Under the client options heading. Please bear in mind, there is no such thing as complete anomnity on the web, only degrees. However I think I like this a little better than exiting in Washington half the time

[ice60]

In the /etc/privoxy/config/ file, where do u add "localhost:9050 ."?

sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config

i've always added it here -

#
#
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
#  
#  6. WINDOWS GUI OPTIONS
#  ======================

then use these settings in firefox -

then i suppose you can use ethereal to see where your port 53 (DNS) is requesting from - it shouldn't be your ISP

[frodon]

I updated this guide with more detailled explanations and screenshots on the UDSF for those who are interested.

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Surf_anon

[elysium444]

It worked, And I wanted to use this for rapid share but couldnt achive it I dont know what they r using. any idea how to download from rapidshare without limitations...

[sefs]

How does one set up a US Proxy from the list given in the how to. It does not mention port numbers and such. just ip addy.

Thanks.