Time to fire up Tor and privoxy services: /etc/init.d/tor start This will tell privoxy to forward Socks traffic to the Service running on port 9050 on your localhost (this service is Tor) Add this line at the bottom of this file: forward-socks4a / localhost:9050. Now, edit the Privoxy configuration file: vi /etc/privoxy/config. Next, install the GUI for tor called ‘vidalia’: apt-get install vidalia polipo. Privoxy will host a proxy service on your machine on port 8118 of type ‘HTTP’.

Tor will host a proxy server on your machine on port 9050 of type ‘Socks5’. This will install 2 separate packages ‘Tor’ and ‘Privoxy’. First, you need to install it on your box using the following command: apt-get install tor privoxy. Set up the onion router to get around this. As I suspected, it was blocked under ‘Proxy Avoidance’.

I decided to try a proxy website (which is not always reliable since admins will block access to proxies as well). Besides, a simple keyword-based block on URLs containing the term “hacking” is pretty archaic. I like to visit CTF websites for solving challenges. The powers-that-be recently blocked websites like HackThisSite on the network that I use, categorizing them as “Hacking”.

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