Absolutely Lost!

[pepsijoe]

First and foremost, I appologize if this has already been discussed. I am completely new to this operating system, and obviously need to do some homework on my end. I grew up with DOS based systems, which means I can get through the command prompt of windows, but not Unix or Linux. I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi B+ (on which I am writing this post in-fact) because my real computer is still in transit--a long story. I have managed to update and upgrade with the (not-so-obvious) commands, so I believe that I am running everything with the latest versions. I want to download TOR and get it running but apperantly don't know what I am doing at all. I did "sudo apt-get install tor" and it says that I am already running the newest version. I thought TOR was a browser...perhaps I am mistaken in this? Can anyone explain to me (in straight to the point directions) what I am supposed to do? If you can't tell, I want to jump off the deep end into the deep-web, but don't want to compromise my personal information if I get into trouble. additionally, are there any good books to learn this computer language? Thank you.

[kusti8]

https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/install-tor This creates a access point also, but I think all the raspberry pi data will be routed through it as well.

[ame]

Tor is not a browser. Tor is a component of your underlying network system.

If Tor is installed and working then you can use any browser on top of it.

A few minutes of Googling would have told you this.

[default_user8]

Everything you need to know about TOR can be found here:
https://www.torproject.org/

And just FYI, Tor is not as secure as most people think. Tor only hides the entrance node from the exit node the actual traffic isn't neccesarily encrypted. Anyone running a tor node can intercept traffic on that node.

[ghans]

Actually , only the guy running the exit node can do that ,
because the whole point of TOR is that nodes which only
route your traffic can't see plain-text packets.

ghans

[kusti8]

Actually , only the guy running the exit node can do that ,
because the whole point of TOR is that nodes which only
route your traffic can't see plain-text packets.

ghans

And anyone can check your browser history or plugins can leak your info. The tor browser was built for this, but on the raspberry pi, you have to do it manually.

[ghans]

Fair point , but nothing which can't be fixed easily.


ghans