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====**How to install and use Tor for network privacy**====
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~-[[https://ssd.eff.org/tech/tor Surveillance Self-Defense]]
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~-<<The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out Tor by [[http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en configuring your Tor to be a relay]] too.<<




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~-[[software]] package ##tor {[[http://www.torproject.org/dist/ source code distribution]]}##
~~-##[[http://www.smokey01.com/coolpup i686]]##
~~~-the Web browser is only able to make use of Tor when
~~~~- [[Polipo the Web browser has been configured to use Polipo]]
~~~~- (since 2013-09-20 Tor package) the Web browser has been configured to use Tor with
~~~~~- SOCKS (v5) host
~~~~~~- **##address: 127.0.0.1##**
~~~~~~- **##port: 9063##**
~~~~- both ##Tor## and ##[[Polipo]]## are also running as well; running this Tor package will auto-start Polipo, presuming it has already been installed:
~~~~~- **//Menu > Network > Tor//**
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~-dependencies:
~~-##+[[libevent]],+[[openssl]]##
~~~-##+[[bzip2]],+[[grep]],+[[gzip]],+[[tar]],+[[zlib]]##
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~-Tor is dependent on the host computer having its clock synchronized with that of the network clock: [[Psync]]
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~-confirmation of successful Tor network connection:
~~-http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/
~~-https://check.torproject.org/
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~-a Tor circuit may be re-established, new identity created, at any time via: **//Menu > Network > Tor//**
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~-http://www.torproject.org/index.html.en
~-[[https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]]: [[https://www.eff.org/helpout helpout]]
~-[[http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130722#qa What is Tor and why is it important?]]
~-[[http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en Running the Tor client on Linux]]
~-[[https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO Configuring a particular application for use with Tor]]
~-[[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/tor-0.2.4.17-rc:/ChangeLog ChangeLog]]
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