This is going to a short and sweet post about online anonymity. This tutorial is for windows, for my friends that are not to tech savvy but want to protect there privacy.
In this article I will be teaching you how to install and use the famous TORBUNDLE, for those of you that don't know this is a network that you connect to that tunnels all web traffic through a series of anymous servers so that you can not be tracked at all. There are some things that you need to do a bit differently, but once you have the hang of it you can have no fear no matter what you get into on the web. Lets start.
Basicly, the people over at the tor project have put in alot of work to make this a simple and user friendly as possible, this is where the torbundle comes in. You basically just run the file provided and it pops up a modified Firefox that runs through the tor network and has addons that stop scripts from running that could compromise your privacy.
To start download the torbundle located here.
Run the installer, select a spot that will be easy for you to access for the install location, let it do its thing. Now it is installed in the folder you chose, I selected the desktop as that is a simple and quick place for me to open it from.
Now open the folder that it installed into, and open the program that says start Tor Browser.
For the people that are just worried about the possibility of someone watching there traffic, which is most of us you will want to just push the first option to connect directly to the tor network. Now if you were in china or some other country where your internet is being filtered and monitored, then you will want to click the second button, but that is beyond the scope of this article. I will get into that in another article.
Give it a second to load, and after it has connected it will open up a pre configured firefox browser that is anonymous. To make sure it is working click the link on the home page that says test for network settings. See the ip that pops up?? I am in the Midwest United States, but it says I am located in Berlin, at the World Famous Chaos Computer Club!! Lucky me huh? Here is a screener of proof, notice it even says that I am not behind a proxy? This is what we want!
It is that simple to take a huge step to protect your privacy! And this is one of the best and most trusted ways to stay anonymous, political activists, reporters in censored countries, and secret agents all put there faith in this technology and now my readers can as well.
As always thanks for reading, and stay safe!
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