Useing TOR to protect your privacy while browsing in Kali Linux

While many of you have heard of the TOR network, many of people have no clue how to install and connect through it. While I have made a tutorial for Windows users about how to run a browser that connects through TOR to protect your browsing traffic, Linux is much less user friendly. But with a little guidance you will be able to setup and run your connection through the TOR network.

Tor is free and open source software and an open network that helps you defend against network sniffing, and can even allow you to connect to whatever sites you want in certain countries that block certain sites. It has been used by everyone from corporate whistle blowers to people behind government implemented firewalls, I believe the Internet should be free from censorship and that an individual should be entitled to privacy while online.

This guide will guide you through installing TOR on Kali Linux.

TOR protects you by bouncing you communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world! It prevents somebody from watching your internet traffic and learning what sites you visit, and it also prevents sites from learning your physical location. It can be used for good or evil, but the bottom line is, it protects us all.

Tor is available in Kali repository, to install it directly from the repository open your Terminal and type this:

apt-get install tor

Enable tor service from command line:

service tor start

Browse with confidence by using proxychains and tor

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To keep things simple in this post, I’ve only shown you how to run a web browser through TOR. In a future post I will show you more advanced techniques.

How to protect your privacy online useing the TOR network. Now easier than ever! For windows users!

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.

Torbundle Download

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!