Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:17:46 -0400
From:      "T." <freebsd-questions@lists.goldenpath.org>
To:        Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?
Message-ID:  <49BABF6A.5000703@lists.goldenpath.org>
In-Reply-To: <hu5kr45oiirtlmv41tou08b03dtpkctpb9@4ax.com>
References:  <i9khr4du3kqfhc2p2fpbtl0jqvqdapumns@4ax.com>	<36241.2123395645$1236851130@news.gmane.org>	<1knhr4hsb6gqmnuru0arpehdj9b3nj4nje@4ax.com>	<49B94A9B.3090305@lists.goldenpath.org> <hu5kr45oiirtlmv41tou08b03dtpkctpb9@4ax.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:47:07 -0400, "T."
> <freebsd-questions@lists.goldenpath.org> wrote:
>   
>> You want a transparent tor proxy, which you setup with freebsd and pf.
>>     
>
> Thanks much for the help. If my modest Python script used to download
> some web pages goes through Tor, is there a way for the remote web
> server to somehow trace this connection back to me?
no

> Can you elaborate? After compiling the Ports, a "_tor" user is
> created. I could successfully launch Tor by "su - _tor".
>
>   

If you want it to work as I've described, as a transparent proxy, you'll 
need to follow all the steps I've detailed.

Yes, of course you can su - _tor
The given start stop method is
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor stop

The way I've described, the machine becomes a transparent tor proxy for 
all machines that use it as their default gateway and dns servers.
This has a huge advantage in that the client machines are un-trickable. 
You don't have to figure out how to "proxify" anything.
You cannot misconfigure their network / proxy settings. Everything uses 
the network exactly as it always does.
If they have no direct access to the internet, they cannot be forced to 
reveal your real IP.




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?49BABF6A.5000703>