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Hazbollah

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« on: April 02, 2012, 01:42:33 PM »
I've recently been trying to get Tor to work with Chrome, as I am opposed in principle to GCHQ looking at all my shit online. So, it works with the standard browser that's included in the bundle, but I don't like Firefox.  I looked at some guides as to how to get it to work through Chrome and followed the, to the letter, but all I get when I try to load a page is Chrome telling me it can't connect to the proxy server. Any advice/tips as to how to get the damned thing to work?
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 01:43:56 PM »
Use a non-windows OS.
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 01:45:00 PM »
Tor doesn't like Windows, then?
As an aside, I'm running Windows 7.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 01:53:01 PM »
Tor doesn't like Windows, then?
As an aside, I'm running Windows 7.
No, it's more like: Windows 7 doesn't like Tor taking over the internet so Tor can't actually integrate itself into Windows.  But I'm pretty sure it can in non Windows OS.
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 01:59:30 PM »
Tor doesn't like Windows, then?
As an aside, I'm running Windows 7.
No, it's more like: Windows 7 doesn't like Tor taking over the internet so Tor can't actually integrate itself into Windows.  But I'm pretty sure it can in non Windows OS.
Are you going to try and use this to push your Linux agenda as well? ::)

http://www.windows7download.com/win7-tor/nxfpuwtn.html
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Re: Tor
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 02:11:44 PM »
Tor doesn't like Windows, then?
As an aside, I'm running Windows 7.
No, it's more like: Windows 7 doesn't like Tor taking over the internet so Tor can't actually integrate itself into Windows.  But I'm pretty sure it can in non Windows OS.
Are you going to try and use this to push your Linux agenda as well? ::)

http://www.windows7download.com/win7-tor/nxfpuwtn.html
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Thork....
You don't read do you?

He installed it but doesn't like firefox and wants to use his Google Chrome browser instead.
Tor doesn't integrate into windows, which is why it has to use it's own browser.

Hell, I have Tor installed and I use windows 7.  I just don't use Tor.
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« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 02:32:56 PM »
I tend to simply dip in and out of Tor. Anything I feel even slightly uncomfortable about being stored 'somewhere up there', I look for via the Tor browser. For regular stuff, I just use Firefox or Chromium.


Tor is quite slow, by necessity, so I doubt you'll want to use it all the time. And whilst I appreciate that having a Tor button is handy, if it's proving to be a pain to get working, just use the Tor browser. It's supposedly more secure anyway.


I just wish I could get my modem to work as a relay...
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« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 07:45:05 PM »
Are you going to try and use this to push your Linux agenda as well? ::)

http://www.windows7download.com/win7-tor/nxfpuwtn.html
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Lord Wilmore

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« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 09:00:07 PM »
Okay, sort of hijacking this thread FAO Parsifal. Soz.


I want to run a relay for Tor. I'm running Linux Mint, and my router is a Huawei E586 (mobile internet router). I can access all its settings, and I've disabled any firewall stuff I can see. When I do the port forwarding test on Tor, it says all is well. However, after a while, I get the following:


Apr 03 03:20:21.154 [Notice] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We have only 672/2755 usable descriptors.
Apr 03 03:20:21.270 [Notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
Apr 03 03:40:16.755 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 03:40:16.760 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:00:16.107 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:00:16.114 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:20:16.424 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:20:16.437 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:40:16.733 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
Apr 03 04:40:16.745 [Warning] Your server X has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.


As I have very little in the way of know-how, I don't really (you guessed it) know how to go about solving the problem. I'm trying real hard Ringo to be the shepherd etc, but there appear to be some technical difficulties.


Also FES just logged me out and did bad things to my post, so if I've forgotten anything, berate me and I shall provide.
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Parsifal

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Re: Tor
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2012, 02:52:46 AM »
I want to run a relay for Tor. I'm running Linux Mint, and my router is a Huawei E586 (mobile internet router). I can access all its settings, and I've disabled any firewall stuff I can see. When I do the port forwarding test on Tor, it says all is well. However, after a while, I get the following:

I'm not familiar with the "port forwarding test" you mention. I assume you're running some command to do this, which is producing that output. Am I correct? If not, where do the messages you pasted come from?

A cursory web search reveals that Vidalia (which is not technically part of Tor) has a feature like this. Is this what you're using? If so, I'll grab the source code and try to figure out what the fancy button is actually doing.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2012, 09:04:19 AM »
It is indeed Vidalia - it came with the Tor Browser package I downloaded. However, if there's another, easier/simpler way to set up an non-exit or exit relay via the terminal or whatever, I'm all ears.
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2012, 10:28:13 AM »
Okay, it seems that I needed to set up port forwarding manually, but this was a bit of a pain because my router seemingly uses its own unique terminology for basically everything. However, I seem to have figured it out, and I've now set up a non-exit relay. I was considering setting up an exit relay, but my bandwidth is fairly limited, and I don't really want my ISP getting snoopy.
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Re: Tor
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2012, 03:22:48 PM »
It is indeed Vidalia - it came with the Tor Browser package I downloaded. However, if there's another, easier/simpler way to set up an non-exit or exit relay via the terminal or whatever, I'm all ears.

I would have simply installed the tor package for your Linux distro. I would say that this is easier, but less intuitive to configure, since you will likely need to edit some configuration files by hand. That is, it's far easier if you're comfortable working the Unix command line, but less intuitive if you're not. It's really up to you, but that's the way I'd do it.

Also, installing Tor using the package manager gives you the benefit of security updates for your distribution, whereas a bundle you downloaded from upstream will not. This may turn out to be of great benefit if there is some big security hole in the current Tor release that gets discovered next week, or it might not be very beneficial at all. I wouldn't risk it, but that's me. As I said, up to you.
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