Tor

i would like to host a relay node in my home but i dont know if it can create any problems for me. Im mostly asking this to other türkish citizens but feel free to answer

Hello!

Recenlty I set up a TOR relay node on an old ASUS laptop that I installed Linux Mint on, and everything went without a problem. I followed the steps on the official Tor website.

However, whenever I start the node I get this error message from Nyx about 20 minutes after I start:

"Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s) at [MyPublicIP]:433."

I am very much a beginner when it comes to this kind of stuff so keep that in mind lol.

I tried to enable the built in firewall in Mint and set a rule to allow incoming and outgoing connections to the port, but that didn't work. But what was interesting what that even when I run "telnet [MyPublicIP] 433" it says that I can connect (it didn't previously before I added the firewall rule).

I'm pretty sure that this issue can be solved my port forwarding, but I'd rather not dig into my router settings.

Does anyone know of any other possible solutions to rectify this problem?

Thank you very much for any help you can provide!

so ya get the bridge from your email, and then have to manually type it in perfectly, i’ve been trying now for a looooong ass time, why haven’t i been able to get connected via a bridge?

I was on a call with friends and started screen sharing tor although i was only browsing, i don't intend nor want to buy anything there, can i get problems because of the screen share on discord? I was using a vpn if that's important.

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to searching things in TOR. What do people generally use Tor for? What are they searching? Also can you do a person search for historical information?

I heard that Tor Browser through Windows isn't a good idea because Windows is a untrustworthy platform.

But, what about Tor Browser through Ubuntu Linux on Virtualbox on Windows, is that a good idea?

For many months now, my ISP has converted my IP from dynamic to static. Can having a static IP affect my anonymity when using Tor?

Hello everyone!

I'm very new to Tor and wanted to help the Tor community, and I have also set up my very own Tor relay NOT EXIT REALY. I wanted to know how to protect my mini server from the outside world. I'm using Nyx to see the traffic and important settings if needed.

I have followed the main Tor website to install and configure the middle relay on my Raspberry Pi 4.

I have followed the Nyx website to install it and configure the settings.

Is there any more configuration I need to follow to successfully run my middle relay?

Any tips are very welcome!

Thank you!

A.R

If a start orbot and then i connect to tor network with tor browser then will get double "tor protection"?

I have a little personal project for myself, to run a Tor browser from within Docker. It's simple - you run the Docker container, and it opens the Tor browser window. But the real reason I'm doing it is I want to simulate the Whonix/Tails experience of anonymizing the entire Docker container's traffic though Tor, and not just the browser. That way, if anything happens, I have both the security of container isolation and no way of deanonymizing my system.

The reason I'm doing it is that I find Whonix and Tails to be annoying to work with. One requires running 2 virtual machines, and the other requires booting into a separate operating system. So, I'm really just trying to make it more convenient to make use of their main benefit, being able to anonymously browse the internet from the comfort of my own host OS, and containerizing everything that happens within it. My use of Tor is not a life-or-death question, I'm just an average individual who exercises their right to privacy, so I'm not that concerned if the result may not be as effective as I'd hope it to be.

The only problem is: I don't know what steps to take to anonymize my container. If there are any publicly available resources I can take, or any tips y'all can help me with, I'd truly greatly appreciate.

And, if it's important to know, I'm on Linux myself, so as long as I'm also running a Linux container there will not be any performance issues from needing to virtualize the correct kernel for the container, as it will be using the host kernel to run.

Thank you everyone in advance!

Hello, I have a question. Are there websites that can detect that I'm using the Tor browser? I want the website not to know my real geographical location; I want it to think I'm from a different area and not know my real internet service provider. Also, I want to change my real IP address. Is there a solution to this issue? I want to use a regular browser like Firefox."

If not how can I make it faster

A few years back a classmate mentioned he got a call saying he got in some trouble just because his provider found out he was using tor.

Even if it was just for learning purposes.

I feel I have a pretty good idea what an ISP sees and what they would care about, would an ISP care if the average joe upped and got into tor for whatever reason?

Around 6 years ago, there was a "proxy" called Sky-Zip. This was a google chrome extension. This allowed for dark web browsing on a Chromebook. https://www.skyzip.de/ is the link to their website (now discontinued). It enabled one to access the dark web without tor, Orbot, or any other ridiculous remedies. So to my question but more into detail, are their any free VPN's, or Proxies capable of accessing the dark web. Are their any other remedies to get on the dark web using a Chromebook? Also, feel free to list the paid versions too. I'm trying to get as much info as I can here.

I'm using a MacBook Pro with an M3 chip to run a Kali Linux VM on Parallels. I'm able to run TOR on the M3 mac fine, but it won't run on the VM, and I keep getting the "Tor Browser requires a CPU with SSE2 support" error. I looked this up and saw a lot of people with the same problem, but no solutions.

During my search I did came across https://www.darlinghq.org/, but before I waste my time with it, I wanted to ask if anyone has had any success. If not, I'll just run TOR on a macOS VM, but I'd like to have all my OSINT tools together.

(Sorry if anything is confusing, English is not my first language.)

I am currently on a work assignment in Mexico. Historically, I use TOR with bridges, and have for many years. And this configuration always worked for me here in Mexico. About a month ago, suddenly TOR would no longer connect. I thought perhaps it was an issue with the local ISP. Nothing seemed to work. But then I had a sudden intuitive flash: Disable bridges and try to connect. And lo and behold it worked!! But this leaves me stumped: Why would the local ISP seemingly block bridges, but allow a regular TOR connection? TOR will not connect with bridges enabled but works fine without them. Any thoughts? Thanks.

How do I unblock Tor on a school network?

How do I make an anonymous website without the FBI looking after me😂 but not for illegal stuff

I started tor service with systemctl start tor and opened brave-browser with proxychains but websites still show my real ip address. in config I have socks4 127.0.0.1 9050 and also proxy_dns so why doesn't it work?

I discovered the Tor metrics website and for S&Gs I wanted to see how many North Koreans use Tor:

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2015-01-01&end=2024-04-22&country=kp

I am extremely surprised. For one, don't the majority of North Koreans connect to each other through an intranet that isn't connected to the outside world? That obviously means this cannot be organic traffic, but then who is creating it? IP address blocks are assigned to ASs so somebody somewhere has to have access to North Korean servers to send requests like this, but obviously not the average subject to the hermit kingdom. I'm assuming state actors? Let me know what you think.

Will the new bill have an effect on the reliability of the Tor network? I would assume it would make for much easier time correlation attacks if the government could have access to any Tor node that wasn’t being self hosted.

What's the full context to why I should set my security levels to safest?

The issue I find about is not being able to fully access to things within the web that needs javascript, if that gets hacked, can't I just pull out the tails usb and I'm good to go?

I am having an issue that TOR loads most pages as expected, but many of them it does not render and the main windows remains empty.

I can open developer tools and see the pages loading. I can even look at individual requests, open the response tab in developer tools, and there the content renders as expected and I can look at the source code. But the main windows still shows the bouncing dot and does not render the content. If I open the requests from the developer tools in a new tab, the same thing happens again.

This seems to happen with captchas and anti-fishing pages more than with other content, but it's not exclusive. It also doesn't seem to matter how long a page takes to load. I can have requests which take 90 seconds or 3 seconds; Both render fine in the Response tab of developer tools, but the main TOR content window remains blank.

New circuit / identity does nothing.

I have TOR 13.0.14 in vanilla settings with JS off (Security: Safest, tried with JS on but does not make a difference). Have tried reinstalling TOR, to the same effect.

Anyone any idea how to get this working?

Hello, I am creating a project that consists of implementing a TOR access point with Raspberry Pi for private use and I am a bit lost and would need help to get started.

I use TB on Android. A while ago - last year, I think - Cloudflare challenges stopped being a problem, and everything worked nicely in TB for some time.

I assumed they incorporated the change mentioned in this article even tho it's an older mention.

But later the captchas came back and also blocked downloading etc...

Can someone shed some light what's up with Cloudflare stopping being a bother for just a while and then coming back?

Also, why is it not possible to download anything from sites that use CF? Challenges I can get, but blocked downloading is bothersome.

Hello How do websites know that I'm using the Tor browser, and is there a way to prevent websites from knowing that I'm using Tor?

For YEARS Tor connections were blocked to Instagram. There is an actually a Reddit post from 3 years ago in this community that asks about this very question. However now, it all of a sudden works. We know that Tor is directly funded by and works with the federal government, so this is a little fishy to me. Was just wondering if anybody had more information on this!!!