Providing this short tutorial for beginners, privacy enthusiasts, and hackers.
Proxychains seems to have not been brought up in recent time. Many of you are concerned with which VPN provider to use, and only utilize tor networking through whonix, tails, and the browser itself. Did you know you can route specific tools or programs through tor however?
Command list:
sudo apt-get install tor proxychains4
sudo nano /etc/proxychains4.conf
At the very bottom of the file you should see a single line in the proxies area. this is the default for tor. add this additional line:
socks5 127.0.0.1 9050
Then save/exit the file. Then:
sudo systemctl enable tor
sudo systemctl start tor
Now anytime you want to run a program through tor, including tools and scripts, you can do so.
What about the entire system?
Each linux system has a networking settings and dns config settings panel. Look for something about proxy or system proxy, and set it to socks 4 (socks 4 and 5 if able), and set the tor local address and port. This way, you can use ubuntu, debian, or any other preferred system.
Using these tools can help you stay anonymous, but don't be a fucktard or you'll get pwned anyways. this is for low to mid threat level people.
your documented and explained it pretty well here but id advise anyone a little more research into the removing and adding #s for approving and denying certain types of chain protocols or actions (if) one or more addresses fail. they have large indexes of free proxy addresses online as well. Tails works great though... just sayin
Fans of Proxychains: please list the app(s) that Proxychains makes possible for you to use on TAILS.
It enabled me to use Exodus wallet semi-persistently (have to reinstall Exodus each time).
It enabled me to use Exodus wallet semi-persistently (have to reinstall Exodus each time).
At the very bottom of the file you should see a single line in the proxies area. this is the default for tor. add this additional line:
Proxychains is configured to use tor by default, unless your distribution does something weird. Torsocks should also be the first thing you try, only use proxychains if torsocks doesn't work with your application. Proxychains (and, less commonly, torsocks) can both still leak your ip. Use them in combination with a firewall.
usually it will leak because of DNS queries or because the net protocol won't work through it. But theres a setting you can toggle on to prevent DNS leaks.