Tor Browser enables you to use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. Tor is a software that bounces your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers. Tor for multi-LND systems. If you want to run multiple instances of LND simulaneously on the same machine and have them use different Tor Hidden Service addresses, add this to lnd.conf (a new private key will automatically be created if the file specified here does not exist). Running Tor Browser as a Proxy on OSX WARNING: This is not a recommended configuration for using Chrome and Tor, but is a convenient way to get your Chrome browser talking to Tor hidden services. A much more secure method is to use the instructions for.

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The Tor Project is a nice distributed anonymizing network. The recommended way of running it (I guess) is downloading the Tor browser bundle, which contains Tor itself and a built-in copy of Firefox, but that is overcomplicated and doesn’t let you use your own browser. Of course, you can still use your browser with the Bundle if you set up the proxy server correctly, but it doesn’t make the process more transparent.

That’s why I cooked up a script (a snippet, really) that lets you run Tor from the command line.

First off, you have to install Tor. It’s in Homebrew, fortunately, so run brew install tor and you’re all set. Do not install Tor as a daemon (as Homebrew recommends), because this is unnecessary.

Now you can run tor with a single tor command, but you’d still have to switch proxy settings back and forth on your own. Why do that when OSX has a nice networksetup utility that can change them from a script?

This script sets up the system-wide proxy config to use Tor, and then launches Tor itself. When you’re done with your anonymous browsing activity, Ctrl+C the Tor server, and then the proxy will be disabled automatically.

Expect networksetup to ask for your password (or sometimes not).

Change the INTERFACE variable if you’re using a connection other than Wi-Fi; run networksetup -listallnetworkservices for a list of available connection names.

(I’m only using Tor because Shamus' Young’s website considers some Ukrainian IPs as botnets and 403’s access from my home provider. Shame on you, Shamus.)

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I'm sure some people have reasons to want to hide their true identity when browsing the internet. Some of the reasons that immediately come to mind involve illegal or immoral activity, but really there are legitimate reasons also. Tor users aren't necessarily shady characters or people prone to wearing tin-foil hats.

I downloaded the Vidalia Bundle for OS X. This includes Tor, Vidalia (a Tor GUI ), Torbutton (a Firefox tool to control your use of Tor), and Privoxy (a filtering web proxy) into one package, with everything ready to work together. You'll find full instructions for that bundle at https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en.

You need to have Firefox shutdown while doing the install because it starts up another copy to add Torbutton. You are also asked to reboot. That always raises my eyebrows: just WHAT did you do to my system that requires a restart? A proxy server shouldn't have to hook very deeply into the OS - it just needs to sit on a port. Why the restart? I don't like that..

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I could not get Torbutton to work. I couldn't even get it to show its buttons and while I did have it installed it prevented Firefox from closing down. This may be because I use NoScript; Torbutton flat out states that they don't like Noscript:

I really can't agree that I'm better off with all or nothing, but there it is. As Torbutton is largely convenience anyway, and as I really have no plans to use Tor extensively anyway, I decided not to pursue the reasons for this failure and just configured Firefox preferences to use localhost:8118 as its proxy. That was simple for Firefox and Opera, but Safari doesn't specify proxies directly. It calls up the OS X network preference pane instead. I could not make that work except for Safari. That is, if I configured my Ethernet connection to use the proxy, Safari would use it but Opera and Firefox would not. That seems wrong.. I would have expected the Ethernet configuration to affect everything, but it didn't.

I think I'd rather have per-browser configuration anyway. If I did have reason to use Tor, I'd probably use it with one specific browser rather than wanting to use it for everything.

But as I said, I have no pressing reason to use Tor anyway. It might be handy now and then if I were testing web scripts that key on IP, but that doesn't come up very often. I just can't think of any other reason I need this.

How about the rest of you? Do you use Tor for anything specific? Or is this conspiracy theorist realm for you?

Be sure to read Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node if you are thinking about Tor.

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There are real risks involved. Your risks from NOT using this would have to be very high before you should consider this. This isn't for some paranoid tin foil hat type who thinks the government cares about their private browsing.

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