Tools for anonymity in the Tor network
In this section, you will learn about the main tools that provide anonymity in the Tor network. We'll do this by learning how to connect to the Tor Browser and introducing other tools for controlling our Tor instance.
Connecting to the Tor network
The easy way to navigate through the Tor network is to use the Tor Browser, which is a modified version of Firefox that includes extensions such as Torbutton, NoScript, and HTTPS Everywhere.
The Tor Browser is configured to obtain the different routes and servers that we can connect to automatically. In addition to allowing you to browse with a high degree of anonymity, by closing a browsing session, confidential user data related to cookies and browsing history will be automatically deleted.
To connect to the Tor network, all you need to do is the following:
- Download the Tor Browser Bundle from https://www.torproject.org.
- Unzip it.
- Run the
start-tor-browser
script in...