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Have you ever thought how great it would be if you could run your hacking tools for information gathering/scanning/exploiting anonymously from terminal?
Here is one of the ways to do this, even your tools are without options for proxy.
You will need TSocks, and Tor installed. Nothing more.
In my BackTrack machine, TSocks is already installed. If you don’t have it, install it first.
After you do this, open /etc/tsocks.conf and edit server_port line, to port 9050 (default Tor port):
server_port = 9050
Then, you need to install Tor. Here you have simply explained how to install Tor. Install just Tor, you don’t need Privoxy.
After configuring tsocks, try to check if it’s working good by using the lynx web browser to connect to a website which will show you your current IP address. So when you want to run your tool anonymously, just add tsocks at the beginning. For example, to run lynx:
tsocks lynx whatismyip.net
If everything works fine, you will get some address from Tor network, and not your private:
Just to make sure, run the same application without tsocks:
lynx whatismyip.net
Here is how it looks now, with my real IP address:
So now, when you are sure that tsocks tunelling works fine, you can run all your nasty tools anonymously. Also, you can start f.e. Firefox and surf anonymously this way, just with typing:
tsocks firefox
That’s it! It’s just one of the ways. Have fun ;)
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