Android Police: Facebook Is Adding Tor Support To The Android App. Engadget: Facebook on Android gives you privacy through Tor. The Guardian: Facebook adds Android app support for anonymity service Tor. So from what I understand all this will allow is FaceBook to be accessed via an onion domain. Is this a good / bad thing? Pro Given the FB user base size, this may encourage more individuals to use…
Thanks to The Register; here’s The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy If you’re just an average user concerned about your privacy Use Tor when browsing. You don’t have to use Tor all the time (it does slow things down considerably and some sites will also block Tor traffic). But if you are looking at or for something that you feel is sensitive, then either set up your browser to…
24/06/2014
It’s quite easy to make a Raspberry Pi a Tor Proxy, just order the parts from AdaFruit, and work through their easy to follow guide. Or if you’re Gen Y, there’s a YouTube video 🙂 But this isn’t why I’ve acquired a Raspberry Pi! I access Tor via a Arch Linux VirtualBox machine, booting a live version of Tails on my PC, and Orbot on my Android devices. What I…
08/06/2014
Fantastic; after a year of information leaked regarding the NSA, and other security organisation, mass surveillance of communication, the tide of change has begun! As the Fight for the Future guys state: it’s up to us to protect our privacy and data! If you care introduce SSL on your sites, but more, encrypt your communication. Chat secure – is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iPhone and Android that…
22/08/2013
While on my search for anonymous and meta free email, I cam across this article at The Daily Dot. It seems like Tor Mail could have been what I was looking for, even though it was based in the dark web. It’s now been closed down, apparently due to bad people carrying out sick nefarious activities that I wouldn’t want to be associated with… or the Feds made up lies…
OK I’m intrigued, here’s the idea User>>Lahana VPN>>Tor>>Website, thanks to Hacker 10 Lahana is a set of scripts that can quickly create a VPN on Amazon EC2 cloud servers using Linux instances and tunnel everything through the Tor proxy network. And here’s a Lahana link. Off to play, will put together a guide if I can get this to work Links r/netsec
21/07/2013
Here’s a link to a guide I’ve nearly completed… if I could only get Vidalia to use the EC2 instant I’ve created as a bridge 🙂 How to Protect your Internet Anonymity and Privacy/Your own TOR node on Amazon EC2
27/05/2013
or “VirtualBox + Tor + Backtrack” aka “How to become (almost?) invisible” from rootd@mmit I plan to use the tor_vm.iso method for stealth, and leave my Debian VB as another playground… tor there if I ever need it. I remember trying this a while ago, and also remember why I don’t use it… I can’t get it to work 🙂 It hangs while trying to bootstrap at 5%… although now…
26/05/2013
Linking this here, as every 6 months or so when I take a look around the dark web I have to go hunting for it Dark Web Wiki