Tor

[Paul H.]

Does anyone else use Tor? It's an Onion Router that bounces your traffic, encrypted, through three relays, to privatize your data. In essence, you're behind three proxies. It's a lot better than any paid proxy service out there. It uses a modified version of Firefox with a button to change IP's instantly. If you like using a shell, it's even got a CLI. Tor is open source too, meaning free and you know there aren't any backdoors. It has way more IP's than things like Hide-My-IP because it's made up of thousands of volunteers around the globe.

https://www.torproject.org

 

[Sanctuary]

It uses a modified version of Firefox with a button to change IP's instantly.

If I had known about this earlier, I would've downloaded it a long time ago..
I knew people used it to "stay anonymous" and stuff, but never knew it was a modified version of FF. I thought it would've been a modified version of GC, since I've seen many of those before.

 

[Descend]

Great share man. Never been big into these kinds of things. As simple as it may be to you I would find a way to make it complicated. Still sounds very good though.

 

[Flippy]

I don't use this I heard that some ISPs don't allow this if they you see you connecting to the network you will get in trouble.

 

[Paul H.]

If I had known about this earlier, I would've downloaded it a long time ago..
I knew people used it to "stay anonymous" and stuff, but never knew it was a modified version of FF. I thought it would've been a modified version of GC, since I've seen many of those before.

There's a central control panel called Vidalia that creates the port on your system for requests to go through. When you start Tor, it starts the modded FF as well, all setup to use Tor. There are plugins to use Tor with GC, but Tor isn't supported by the Tor Project on GC because Tor is about privacy, and well, Google Chrome is Google.

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I don't use this I heard that some ISPs don't allow this if they you see you connecting to the network you will get in trouble.

Some ISP's don't want you to be a relay on the network (being one of the three proxies other people use). You should be able to use the client just fine however.

 

[Bubba]

Use it all the time for deep web adventures.
It works perfectly.

 

[Flippy]

What if you don't setup the relay? (I'm using comcast)

 

[Paul H.]

What if you don't setup the relay? (I'm using comcast)

You're just a client by default, meaning you don't relay any traffic. I don't know why an ISP wouldn't let you use Tor to browse, it's basically a proxy. It doesn't hinder network performance at all. I've used Tor on Comcast, my college Internet, and more and I've never had an issue.

 

[Flippy]

Okay thank you for the information

 

[Paul H.]

I'm face-palming pretty hard at how some of you missed something I said in the first post, lol.

 

[Flippy]

I used Tor before but I stopped. I'm not very familiar with it so I didn't know what you meant

 

[Paul H.]

I used Tor before but I stopped. I'm not very familiar with it so I didn't know what you meant

No, I don't mean anything like that, but when I wrote the post I hid a word in it I thought someone would catch

 

[GENIUS]

I use it a lot.

It's fun to go on the Hidden Wiki too.