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Tor

Last modified: 2022-12-01

Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.

Install Tor

sudo apt install tor

Start/Restart/Stop Tor Service

# Start
sudo service tor start

# Restart
sudo service tor restart

# Stop
sudo service tor stop

# Status
sudo service tor statur

Proxychains

Proxychains forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy.

  • configuration

    vim /etc/proxychains.conf

# -----------------------------------------------------

# If performing nmap for port scan through proxychains, comment out the following. Otherwise it will hang and crash.
proxy_dns

    If you lost a configuration file, download from the repository.

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haad/proxychains/master/src/proxychains.conf -O /etc/proxychains.conf

Now start the Tor service and run the following command to open the Firefox via proxychains.

proxychains firefox