On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Daniel Ericsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 apr 2012, at 05:52, Jasper Frumau wrote: > > Now on my issues with tor from the command line: > > tor -help start did not help: > > > For documentation on tor see: `man tor` > > $ tor -help start > Apr 16 09:19:45.830 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-b04388f9e7546a9f). This is > experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on > Darwin i386) > Apr 16 09:19:45.830 [notice] Configuration file "/opt/local/etc/tor/torrc" > not present, using reasonable defaults. > Apr 16 09:19:45.831 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Unknown option > 'help'. Failing. > Apr 16 09:19:45.831 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. > > But when I entered tor as a command, it did start it all up. Just not sure > how I can test it from the terminal.. > > When I tried to use tor to test the security of a site of mine using > wpscan and tor host:port 127.0.0.1:9050 I did see this error: > > Apr 16 09:47:43.641 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not an > http proxy.) > Apr 16 09:47:43.642 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not an > http proxy.) > Apr 16 09:47:43.642 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not an > http proxy.) > Apr 16 09:47:43.643 [warn] Socks version 71 not recognized. (Tor is not an > http proxy.) > > > Tor runs as a SOCKS proxy not as an http proxy, this is why you see this > error. > OK > > so I installed privoxy. I did no longer receive the same error and could > see the privoxy online page to see it was running. But when I pick privoxy > for all protocols in Firefox using 127.0.0.1 and port 8118 and went to > whatismyip.com I still got my ip address. So I am not sure if my > application using --proxy 127.0.0.1:8118 is really making the call > anonymous even though I did not get any errors. And there you go, when I > checked the access logs my IP address was logged. > > I asked for some tips at wpscan, but if anyone on the list has any ideas > what I am missing please let me know. > > > privoxy seems to be an http proxy. By using it instead of Tor, your > traffic isn't routed through Tor - so of course you don't get any errors > and your IP isn't anonymized. You can probably set up privoxy to in turn > route it's traffic through Tor but you'll have to look to the privoxy > documentation on how to do that. > > > To use Tor once it's started and bootstrapped. Go into System Preferences > -> Network -> Click "Advanced..." for the interface you are connecting to > the internet with -> Go to the "Proxies" tab -> Check "SOCKS Proxy" and > enter "localhost:98050" for SOCKS Proxy Server address. > Will check that out asap > > This will allow most Mac apps written to read the proxy settings to route > through Tor. Most command line apps aren't written for Mac OS X > specifically though so they need to have support for using a SOCKS and be > configured separately to use Tor's SOCKS proxy on localhost:9050. > > eg. curl --socks5 localhost:9050 http://yourwordpressblog.com/ > or > curl --socks4a localhost:9050 http://yourwordpressblog.com/ - to have > the DNS resolution flow through Tor as well. > Cool. Thanks a lot! > > -- Daniel >
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