Tor is a tool that can be used to proxy your online communications between multiple, randomly selected, global providers effectively anonymizing your Internet traffic. Tor is a free anonymizing service, but doesn’t also encrypt your traffic.Privoxy is a non-caching proxy that also has a certain amount of filtering built into it. Many may use privoxy to do adware removal. But it can also be used to filter information for Tor. Installers are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files. Once you have installed privoxy you can access the configuration page at http://www.privoxy.org/config/. Because privoxy is a command line tool, you can also access the help page for that using the following command (using privoxy as your working directory):privoxy –helpBy default privoxy will install the following files on your system:
So I downloaded it and it turns out it's no joke. It really is the Tor Browser Bundle for PowerPC. From the ReadMe:
It also sets your user agent to the default Tor user agent, has private browsing enabled, and sets
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- /usr/sbin/privoxy
- /etc/privoxy/config
- /etc/privoxy/match-all.action
- /etc/privoxy/default.action
- /etc/privoxy/user.action
- /etc/privoxy/default.filter
- /etc/privoxy/user.filter
- /etc/privoxy/trust
- /etc/privoxy/templates/*
- /var/log/privoxy/logfile
The Tor project aims at making your internet activity anonymous and help you protect your identity, regardless of your reason. Vidalia is designed to run on most architectures that are supported. Tor Browser for Mac has been designed to assist you preserve your privacy online.state security referred to as traffic analysis. The Tor Browser Bundle is an easy-to-use portable package of Tor, Vidalia, Tor button, and a Firefox fork precon figured to figure together out of the box.See the Who Uses Tor? Page for samples of typical Tor users.
But you don’t have to install any of that. Or use it manually – you can, but you don’t have to. You can download the Vidalia Tor installer bundle, which will install privoxy, Vidalia, Tor and the Torbutton extension for Firefox. The installer package can be run choosing all of the defaults and then will need a reboot. Once complete, open Firefox (the first time it will install the extension, quit Firefox and then reopen it to activate it) and you’ll see Tor Disabled in the lower right hand corner of Firefox. You’ll then be able to click on it to switch over to using Tor from within Firefox. Click on it again and it will disable Tor again.Overall, this is a nice and sleek design for obtaining anonymous web communications. Obviously, if you use it to log into your Twitter account, that’s not anonymous. But browsing and posting to sites does not link back to your IP address, which is one key aspect of Tor. You’re also still connecting over standard protocols. Again, Tor does nothing to encrypt data – it is a service dedicated to anonymity.A little birdie left a comment saying there was an unofficial Tor Browser Bundle for Tiger and Leopard at sourceforge.net/projects/osxpowerpcpackages. Given that I wrote a long torturous post about how to use Tor without the bundle since Tor officially dropped PowerPC, I naturally wanted to check this out.So I downloaded it and it turns out it's no joke. It really is the Tor Browser Bundle for PowerPC. From the ReadMe:
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The packages in this directory are UNOFFICIAL builds of the Tor Browser Bundle for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5), PowerPC architecture. Optimized builds are available for the different PowerPC versions, namely, the G3, G4 (7450) and G5.As said, it's a bit outdated so it's more proof of concept, but everything works. It all comes in one app bundle, and inside it are Vidalia and Firefox, with Firefox having its own profile in TorBrowser.app/Library/Application Support/, so you can run this side-by-side with TenFourFox with no problems.
The bundle is based on the official Tor Browser Bundle with changes to make it work on older Mac OS X versions and the PowerPC architecture. Most notably, Qt is downgraded to the last Mac OS X 10.4 compatible version (4.7.4) and Firefox is patched with suitable parts from the TenFourFox changeset.
Note that the 2.3.25-15 bundle version is already outdated. More current version based on Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is in the works.
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It also sets your user agent to the default Tor user agent, has private browsing enabled, and sets
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
to 'true,' so all your bases are covered. It comes with two add-ons, HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript. NoScript is set to allow scripts by default, so you want to click the 'Forbid Scripts' option.