Go Online without Getting Snooped: Tor (The Onion Router)

Step 4 Now, be Careful

Having Tor up and running won't help if you slip up.

The first thing to do is to remember always to enable Tor when you're online. Maybe you want to maintain a profile on a site somewhere (like Instructables!) that no one can trace to you. If you forget and log in just once without Tor enabled, your real location will be recorded in the logs. So, be careful!

Second, you can start Tor-ifying your other internet apps: IM clients, email, etc. There's more information about this here on the Tor wiki.

Computer security is a constant arms race. There are smart people all over the world (criminals, government snoops, not to mention ADULTS at your school) who are always trying to see what you're up to or block where you want to go. No security is perfect, and they'll find ways to chip away at your defenses.

Good luck, out there.

Comments

[Kyky Rocks1]

Awesome it works

[53rp3nt]

This is great. Is there a how-to on setting up a pirate party email?

[M4industries]

I saw the same thing in Little Brother. I am not quite sure.

[sunset1]

While this will give you some protection you might want to ask questions like hrm what happens if my box is the server sending information that some unknown person is looking for and they grab my ip instead? Annotherwords if you are running this as a server sooner or later you will be sending data that someone else requested. If that data is suspect it can be traced to the wrong party and has in the past. be aware. Sunset1

[Badassman828]

One of the great things about Tor is, that this guy forgot, is that its encrypted. If someone runs something that comes off your computer, you cant see it, but nobody else can see it came from you (unless your the only german person running tor at the time and google comes up in german) Also, you have to agree to be a volunteer to let other people use your computer as a bounce off point. Finally, the request and webpage is bounced off so many different IP addresses that it is impossible for anyone to tell where exactly it came from, so anyone who uses Tor is well protected from false accusations.

[z199y]

good point ill be carefull.

[blinky]

Ha ha this is great... I know it works cos google just came up in German!