This howto will show you how you can surf (or IM, or irc, or whatever) anonymously using the tor network. I'm using hoary, so I don't know if this will work on warty. Please give me some feedback on this.
BEFORE YOU START
Make sure you have enabled the universe repository.
INSTALL TOR AND PRIVOXY
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install tor privoxy
CONFIGURE PRIVOXY
Add the following line to /etc/privoxy/config. You can put it at the top of the file if you want (Don't forget the last dot.)
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
then it's time to start tor and privoxy
Code:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor start
$ sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start
To Torify an application that supports http (ie Firefox), just point it at Privoxy (that is, localhost:8118 ). To use SOCKS directly (for example, for instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc), point your application directly at Tor (localhost:9050).
To see if everything is working, go to this site.
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