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Installing TOR browser

There are many ways of installing TOR but an easy step is to go to TOR website, download, extract the file and install it on Kali Linux. So, here we go. STEPS: 1. Go to www.torproject.org . 2. Click on Download . 3. Navigate 32 bit or 64 bit for GNU/Linux , click on Download and then select Save file and press ok . 4. Once the file is downloaded, open terminal and type cd command to go to the directory where the file has been downloaded. 5. Decompress the file by running tar with xvzf   parameters. 6. Once the file is decompressed, goto the tor folder. 7. Edit the file start-tor-browser  in a text editor, like leafpad, by giving admin right 8. Run the browser, either by clicking on  start-tor-browser  or through terminal window by typing  ./start-tor-browser . Now let's see these by an example. Let's say, at the time of release, the filename of the tor browser is tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-15-dev-en-US.tar.gz (for 32-bit, it may different depending on...

TOR for Kali Linux

Tor (used to stand for " The Onion Router ", but it's no longer considered an abbreviation, so it's just " Tor "), is an anonymity network, used to surf the web (and more) anonymously. Basically, anyone running the Tor software on their computer runs a proxy, and traffic gets passed (encrypted) from one person running Tor to another person running Tor, multiple times through many users, until it get's to the page that you requested. Hence the term " Onion " used to describe it, since it works in " layers ". Each person running Tor on their computer is called a " Node ". To the page (and anyone logging requests to that page, such as the website owner for example) they can only see the IP address of the last Node (called the "end node"). Any communication along the way, between you, when you request the website page, and the final destination, is encrypted, and cannot be analyzed. However, the last Node in the chain...